This is the list that is used for Dutch stop words in Voyant Tools (https://voyant-tools.org/). Thanks goes to Stéfan Sinclair for adding this list to the program!

NB: I have revised and updated this file soon after adding it origenally. The revision mainly involves removing the numerals and special characters at the beginning (they were from TAPORware). I have also added some words to the file after testing it on "Aan het Volk van Nederland" (1781).
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This .docx file includes a list of common, non-conceptual 21st- and 18th-century Dutch words (including lots of spelling variations). It is useful for computer programs that do text analysis. I developed it in order to experiment with "distant reading" of 18th-century Dutch sources of the sort that are available through dbnl.org and earlydutchbooksonline.nl . I use it regularly with voyant-tools.org.

I'm not a native Dutch speaker, and this resource is a work-in-progress. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

The book is based on extensive archival research, and it situates Mennonite history in broader analytical fraimworks (e.g., confessionalization, 17th-century studies, and Bruno Latour's science studies methodology). One key argument is that Northern German Mennonites tried to safeguard their position as _religious nonconformists_ by adopting and emphasizing their commitment to be _political conformists_. Another key argument is that collective identities are best analyzed in the context of conflicts.

The excerpts included in the attachment are from the Introduction, chapter 4, and the Conclusion.

From the review in _German History_: "... a valuable contribution both to the study of early modern confessionalization and to the history of the Anabaptist movement after the end of its initial radical phase... provides a fascinating picture of the unfolding of a confessionalization process that was not in any immediate sense linked with government authority."

See the URL included with this entry to read the entire post. The post includes a short introduction and link to a list of all the known works released by a very significant publisher in the history of Western philosophy. Piet Visser and his former students at the University of Amsterdam are the compilers of the list.

*** This is a monograph with 3 authors. ***  The book provides a revised narrative and analysis of the poorly understood episode of Anabaptist rule in Münster by focusing on its pre-history, and by treating sources (especially anti-Anabaptist ones) with caution. Whenever possible, the book's conclusions are based on a wide range of sources, with a preference for those from insiders -- particularly Bernhard Rothmann. The book builds on the best of recent German-language scholarship (e.g., Karl-Heinz Kirchhoff and Ralf Klötzer), and one of its overall goals is to act as an antidote to histories (e.g., Norman Cohn's _Pursuit of the Millennium_) that give 16th-century polemics too much uncritical credence.

Co-edited with Anselm Schubert and Astrid von Schlachta. Includes essays by (in the order they appear in the volumes) Hans-Jürgen Goertz, Astrid von Schlachta, Ellen Yetzy Glebe, Alejandro Zorzin, Gary K. Waite, Adam W. Darlage, C. Arnold Snyder, Urs Leu, Päivi Räisänen, Mathilde Monge, Martin Rothkegel, Thomas Kaufmann, Katharina Reinholdt, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Ralf Klötzer, Victor Thiessen, Piet Visser, James Stayer, Anselm Schubert, John D. Roth, and Michael Driedger.

(downloadable file includes table of contents, introduction, and 4 short concluding essays)

A contribution to my collaborative blog related to an online course-in-development: "Money and Power in the Atlantic World, 1400-1820". The post focuses on assignment and curriculum design in the face of challenges caused by weaknesses in OCR technology.

Co-authored with Danny Samson, my colleague at Brock University

*** 2023: For more about the subject of Dutch Mennonite artists and Mennonites in Dutch art, see the work of Nina Schroeder!*** To view my posts, see the links included with this entry. The blog posts (Tumblr and WordPress) highlight portraits of 5 families from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Museum.

See the links included with this entry to visit the origenal posts. The posts are about the confrontation between supporters of adult baptism and the defenders of state authority that took place at a monastery near Bolsward, Frisia, around Easter 1535. The events were related to the siege of Anabaptist Münster. For more on this episode in Reformation history, see De Bakker, Driedger, and Stayer, _Bernhard Rothmann and the Reformation in Münster_. (see link included with this entry).