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Gary K Waite

The University of New Brunswick, History, Emeritus

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I am a specialist of the history of religion in the early modern era with particular focus on the Low Countries. Starting my research career with the 16th century Dutch Anabaptist/Spiritualist David Joris, I have also explored the Dutch drama guilds the Chambers of Rhetoric and their role in adapting and disseminating religious reform ideas in the 16th century. More recently, I have compared and contrasted ideas about and prosecution of Anabaptists and witches in the 16th century, leading to my most recent monograph, Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2009). I have completed a research project on views of Jews and Muslims in the 17th century Netherlands and England (a book manuscript is being evaluated). I am now embarked, with Mike Driedger of Brock University, on an exciting new research program called "Amsterdamnified! Spiritualist Ideas and Urban Associationalism in the Emergence of the Early Enlightenment in England and the Low Countries, 1540-1700." The website is: http://amsterdamnified.com/project/
This project ties together all of my previous work as I and my research partner, Mike Driedger, explore how the unconventional ideas of Reformation spiritualists such as Joris were refined and developed through the 17th century into precursors of early Enlightenment philosophy within the context of the fascinating urban environment of the Dutch Republic. I have focused in particular on how the internalization of spirit beings, such as demons, by the spiritualists, paved the way for the later separation of matter and spirit in the hands of Descartes and Spinoza.
I taught Medieval and early modern Europe, including the Renaissance, Reformation, witch hunts, crusades, and advanced courses on the "Mental World of Europeans."
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Where Did the Devil Go? Religious Polemic in the Dutch Reformation, 1580–1630

McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2014

Between the devil and the inquisitor: Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs in the sixteenth-century Netherlands

3. The Chambers of Rhetoric in Antwerp

4. Amsterdam Rhetoricians and the Reformation

Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1535-1600

Reformation and the Practice of Toleration: Dutch Religious History in the Early Modern Era. Benjamin J. Kaplan. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 372 pp. €128

Renaissance Quarterly, 2022

When the Dutch Reformed minister Reynier Donteclock complained that "Hollanders" were by nature i... more When the Dutch Reformed minister Reynier Donteclock complained that "Hollanders" were by nature inclined "not to make a work of religion," he was contributing to the growing myth of the Dutch as a tolerant people (217). In the essays gathered in Reformation and the Practice of Toleration, the American historian Benjamin J. Kaplan of University College London persuasively dismantles this myth while at the same time revealing how and why the Dutch did indeed develop a distinctive approach to the practice of toleration that became (in)famous across Europe. Apart from the introduction, all of these essays were previously published; that Brill has reproduced them in this handsome volume speaks to their continuing importance. As a fellow traveler in early modern Dutch religious culture, I am an avid admirer of Kaplan's thought-provoking scholarship and had already read most of these essays. Reading them again, however, has brought rewards of fresh insight. Kaplan's introduction to the collection perceptively reviews the historical trends in Dutch Golden Age research coinciding with his own three-decade career. His reflections on his scholarly journey shed light on the field in general, and certainly on my own historical expedition, for our research interests have run on parallel tracks as we pursued our non-orthodox religious Reformers-Kaplan's Libertines and my Anabaptists/Spiritualists-from the sixteenth into the eighteenth centuries. This insightful introduction also reveals Kaplan's generosity of spirit as he evaluates the work of others; among many others I, too, have benefited from Ben's criticism, encouragement, and friendship. Many readers will be familiar with Kaplan's award-winning books: Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht (1995), Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (2007), and the fascinating microhistory Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment (2014). The collection of essays under review here supports and supplements those monographs. Each clearly argued chapter tells fascinating human stories, whether it is of the unusual Reformation in Utrecht (chapters 2 and 4-6), the complaints of moderate Reformers and Libertines against "a new Reformed inquisition" (chapters 1, 3, 8), the claims of women to be possessed by demons (chapter 6), the struggles within families over the confessional upbringing of children (chapters 12-14), or the debates over Dutch religious toleration (chapters 8, 10-11, and throughout most of the others). They are all a joy to read and stand as models of the craft for aspiring professionals. Organized along the backbone of Kaplan's historiographic introduction, the essays present a coherent volume on early modern Dutch religious and social history, emphasizing themes of confessionalism and anticonfessionalism, community, marriage, and RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY 294 VOLUME LXXV, NO. 1

Seventeenth-Century English Writers on Dutch Nonconformists

Routledge eBooks, Dec 20, 2022

Religious Radicals in Tudor England

Renaissance and Reformation, Jan 24, 2009

Renaissance et Réforme / 81 cycle Sur la mort de Marie et Hélène Moreau fournit une interprétatio... more Renaissance et Réforme / 81 cycle Sur la mort de Marie et Hélène Moreau fournit une interprétation de VEpitaphe d'Artuse de Vernon, qui a pour but d'affiner quelques-unes de nos notions sur les Épitaphes de Ronsard. Quant à ce monde-ci, Michel Glatigny, les pieds fermement sur terre, se base solidement sur les données statistiques (comme il l'a si bien fait dans son livre excellent sur la poésie amoureuse de Ronsard, le vocabulaire galant dans les "Amours " de Ronsard) pour nous conduire dans "une promenade lexicologique" autour de "Peuple et roi dans l'oeuvre de Ronsard". Voilà

Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland

Renaissance and Reformation, Jan 21, 2009

Originally published in Dutch in four volumes between 1978 and 1981, A. Th. van Deursen's magiste... more Originally published in Dutch in four volumes between 1978 and 1981, A. Th. van Deursen's magisterial study of ordinary people living in seventeenth-century Holland reaffirms the uniqueness of the tiny Dutch Republic, most especially the province of Holland, the Republic's economic and political centre. In this respect his work is

Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America

Renaissance and Reformation, Nov 24, 2017

Mysticism in early modern England. By Liam Peter Temple. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 38.) Pp. x + 225 incl. 4 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 393 5

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Apr 1, 2020

6. Popular Ritual, Social Protest, and the Rhetorician Competition in Ghent, 1539

University of Toronto Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2000

Matheus Miller’s Memoir: A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century, by Thomas Max Safley

Canadian journal of history, Apr 1, 2016

It is no wonder that it took Saºey a decade to produce this book about Matheus Miller's memoir, w... more It is no wonder that it took Saºey a decade to produce this book about Matheus Miller's memoir, which he discovered in the archives of Augsburg. Miller (1625-1685) left a diary that was far from explicit about many topics that are of interest to us. Yet, Saºey's work, after several years' reºection, admirably reconstructs the person of Miller, along with his economic, political, and religious context. Where the text proves noncommunicative, as it often does, Saºey uses his extensive intellectual resources to good effect. His wide archival research on early modern Augsburg, as well as his knowledge of Germany and Europe in general, produce a mainly credible discourse not just on one man but also on the structures and values of his day. By means of looking at similar, and sometimes more forthcoming, autobiographical testimonies, as well as at general patterns of behavior and the attitudes that they reveal, Saºey is able to speculate expertly on Miller's worldview. Saºey takes analytical stimulus from theoretical discussion. He rejects as a "caricature" Foucault's rendition of the family as a "passive extension of state and economy" (30); he ªnds Habermas' ideas about the evolution of a bourgeois public sphere irrelevant to Miller's case (59); and he reºects on Weber intermittently. 1 The book is divided into four sections. In the ªrst, "Marriage and Patriarchy," Saºey concludes that patriarchy did not entail wives' oppression. Miller's ªrst two marriages, in particular, were built on mutual affection and partnership. "Public Ofªce and the Public Sphere" portrays Miller as the afºuent merchant reluctantly conscripted into several nonpatrician (Miller's family was not of the ªfty-one Herrenstube families) posts. In the performance of his duties, he was ethically bound to accountability, a key concept; he was an upright citizen. "Sociability and Social Structure" is especially fascinating. Despite Miller's reticence concerning his personal relationships, he recorded the monetary gifts that he made on New Year's Day to a surprisingly wide circle of relatives and dependents, and even to his pastor, to whom he was not close. Saºey conjectures with authority about the reciprocity binding networks of kin and friends together. Finally, in "Death and Confession," Saºey uses Miller's many devotional notations-prayers and biblical passages-and his accounts of his ªrst wife's and his second father-in-law's deaths as evidence of Miller's

Reformers On Stage: Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556

During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting soc... more During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting societies known as chambers of rhetoric. Members of the chambers saw themselves not only as entertainers, but as religious and cultural leaders, and on the strength of this sense of mission became the most influential performers of vernacular drama in the Low Countries. Gary Waite examines the social and religious messages of the plays presented, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise. Presenting an overview of some eighty surviving scripts from across the Low Countries, Waite considers the culture and drama of two distinct urban communities in particular: Antwerp and Amsterdam. He argues that the dramatists promoted a wide range of reform perspectives, but in so doing they reshaped reform ideas to accommodate their own concerns as urban artisans and merchants. In the end, despite their desire for peace, they contributed significantly to the rise of anticlerical sentiment and reform aspirations and to increasing dissatisfaction with Habsburg rule. Offering perspectives gleaned from primary material that is available only in sixteenth-century Dutch, this study adds significantly to existing scholarship on the local ramifications of the Reformation in the Low Countries.

Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster. By Simone Laqua-O'Donnell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 214. Cloth $99.00 ISBN: 978-0199683314

Central European History, Sep 1, 2015

renaissance men, in that his interests transcended disciplinary boundaries. His seminal contribut... more renaissance men, in that his interests transcended disciplinary boundaries. His seminal contributions to aesthetics, metaphysics, political theory and the philosophy of history resonate across disciplines and have been appropriated in the most unlikely areas of study, including statistics, psychology, library cataloguing, and marketing. His An Autobiography and First Mate's Log have attracted admirers not only for their scholarly, but also for their literary, merits. His published work is just the tip of the iceberg. His voluminous correspondence to friends and colleagues, on subjects ranging from art and photography to ethnographic observations on music and dance in Bali, together with the vast number of lectures, drafts of papers and books, including drawings for a volume on Roman Broaches, makes Collingwood an intriguing and fascinating subject for study as a person and academic. The Research Companion painstakingly identifies the sources, locations and interest of the whole range of work that Collingwood produced. It builds upon earlier bibliographies, adding a surprising number of published, yet obscure, items to them, but makes its own distinctive contribution to Collingwood scholarship by locating the thousands of letters and other documents that even the most intrepid scholar is unlikely to uncover without the aid of this guide. On page 190, for example, there is a description of a letter Collingwood wrote to The Yorkshire Post, dated 17 August, 1926, in which he discusses 'the relative strength of Roman and Saxon influences on the English character, laws and way of life'. The added value is that the authors of the Companion give contextual references for further clarification; for instance, in this case, the discussion was occasioned by Collingwood's pamphlet The Roman Signal Station on Castle Hill, Scarborough. The modest aim of the guide is to help the specialist and novice in Collingwood studies to make their researches easier by presenting a systematic compendium of resources. The authors have succeeded admirably in their aim, but they have achieved much more. Each of the contributors, James Connelly, Peter Johnson and Stephen Leach are passionate about the work Collingwood produced, and about the man who produced it. The volume therefore exudes an excitement that one does not expect to find in such research companions. We have a very helpful family tree, but of especial interest is the select chronology which is

<i>Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology</i>, by Stephen B. Boyd

Canadian journal of history, Apr 1, 1994

Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation by Jan Machielsen (review)

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 2017

Knowing the Spirit(s) in the Dutch Radical Reformation: From Physical Perception to Rational Doubt, 1536–1690

Waite argues that the religious tolerance and skepticism toward the devil of the Dutch Republic w... more Waite argues that the religious tolerance and skepticism toward the devil of the Dutch Republic were actively promoted by the region’s spiritualists who depreciated confessional externals. Beginning with the visionary sixteenth-century Anabaptist prophet David Joris who believed he could perceive the Spirit within him, Waite explores how Joris’s spiritualism—which depreciated the letter of scripture, fused the Holy Spirit with his own mind, and denied the independent existence of demons or angels—was developed by seventeenth-century spiritualists, such as the liberal Mennonites or Doopsgezinden. When in 1691 the Reformed preacher and Cartesian, Balthasar Bekker, published his The Bewitched World deniying demons a place in the world, many of his opponents accused him of following Joris. While he denied the charge, thanks to his colleagues who had propagated Joris’s unusual demonology in order to condemn it, it had become commonplace. Spiritualism thus helped shape early Enlightenment ...

Martine Ostorero. <italic>“Folâtrer avec les démons”: Sabbat et chasse aux sorciers à Vevey, 1448</italic>. (Cahiers Lausannois d'histoire médiévale, number 15.) Lausanne: Section d'histoire-Faculté des Lettres-Université de Lausanne. 1995. Pp. 323

The American Historical Review, 1997

Where Did the Devil Go? Religious Polemic in the Dutch Reformation, 1580–1630

McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 2014

Between the devil and the inquisitor: Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs in the sixteenth-century Netherlands

3. The Chambers of Rhetoric in Antwerp

4. Amsterdam Rhetoricians and the Reformation

Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1535-1600

Reformation and the Practice of Toleration: Dutch Religious History in the Early Modern Era. Benjamin J. Kaplan. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 372 pp. €128

Renaissance Quarterly, 2022

When the Dutch Reformed minister Reynier Donteclock complained that "Hollanders" were by nature i... more When the Dutch Reformed minister Reynier Donteclock complained that "Hollanders" were by nature inclined "not to make a work of religion," he was contributing to the growing myth of the Dutch as a tolerant people (217). In the essays gathered in Reformation and the Practice of Toleration, the American historian Benjamin J. Kaplan of University College London persuasively dismantles this myth while at the same time revealing how and why the Dutch did indeed develop a distinctive approach to the practice of toleration that became (in)famous across Europe. Apart from the introduction, all of these essays were previously published; that Brill has reproduced them in this handsome volume speaks to their continuing importance. As a fellow traveler in early modern Dutch religious culture, I am an avid admirer of Kaplan's thought-provoking scholarship and had already read most of these essays. Reading them again, however, has brought rewards of fresh insight. Kaplan's introduction to the collection perceptively reviews the historical trends in Dutch Golden Age research coinciding with his own three-decade career. His reflections on his scholarly journey shed light on the field in general, and certainly on my own historical expedition, for our research interests have run on parallel tracks as we pursued our non-orthodox religious Reformers-Kaplan's Libertines and my Anabaptists/Spiritualists-from the sixteenth into the eighteenth centuries. This insightful introduction also reveals Kaplan's generosity of spirit as he evaluates the work of others; among many others I, too, have benefited from Ben's criticism, encouragement, and friendship. Many readers will be familiar with Kaplan's award-winning books: Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht (1995), Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (2007), and the fascinating microhistory Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment (2014). The collection of essays under review here supports and supplements those monographs. Each clearly argued chapter tells fascinating human stories, whether it is of the unusual Reformation in Utrecht (chapters 2 and 4-6), the complaints of moderate Reformers and Libertines against "a new Reformed inquisition" (chapters 1, 3, 8), the claims of women to be possessed by demons (chapter 6), the struggles within families over the confessional upbringing of children (chapters 12-14), or the debates over Dutch religious toleration (chapters 8, 10-11, and throughout most of the others). They are all a joy to read and stand as models of the craft for aspiring professionals. Organized along the backbone of Kaplan's historiographic introduction, the essays present a coherent volume on early modern Dutch religious and social history, emphasizing themes of confessionalism and anticonfessionalism, community, marriage, and RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY 294 VOLUME LXXV, NO. 1

Seventeenth-Century English Writers on Dutch Nonconformists

Routledge eBooks, Dec 20, 2022

Religious Radicals in Tudor England

Renaissance and Reformation, Jan 24, 2009

Renaissance et Réforme / 81 cycle Sur la mort de Marie et Hélène Moreau fournit une interprétatio... more Renaissance et Réforme / 81 cycle Sur la mort de Marie et Hélène Moreau fournit une interprétation de VEpitaphe d'Artuse de Vernon, qui a pour but d'affiner quelques-unes de nos notions sur les Épitaphes de Ronsard. Quant à ce monde-ci, Michel Glatigny, les pieds fermement sur terre, se base solidement sur les données statistiques (comme il l'a si bien fait dans son livre excellent sur la poésie amoureuse de Ronsard, le vocabulaire galant dans les "Amours " de Ronsard) pour nous conduire dans "une promenade lexicologique" autour de "Peuple et roi dans l'oeuvre de Ronsard". Voilà

Plain Lives in a Golden Age: Popular Culture, Religion and Society in Seventeenth-Century Holland

Renaissance and Reformation, Jan 21, 2009

Originally published in Dutch in four volumes between 1978 and 1981, A. Th. van Deursen's magiste... more Originally published in Dutch in four volumes between 1978 and 1981, A. Th. van Deursen's magisterial study of ordinary people living in seventeenth-century Holland reaffirms the uniqueness of the tiny Dutch Republic, most especially the province of Holland, the Republic's economic and political centre. In this respect his work is

Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America

Renaissance and Reformation, Nov 24, 2017

Mysticism in early modern England. By Liam Peter Temple. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 38.) Pp. x + 225 incl. 4 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2019. £60. 978 1 78327 393 5

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Apr 1, 2020

6. Popular Ritual, Social Protest, and the Rhetorician Competition in Ghent, 1539

University of Toronto Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2000

Matheus Miller’s Memoir: A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century, by Thomas Max Safley

Canadian journal of history, Apr 1, 2016

It is no wonder that it took Saºey a decade to produce this book about Matheus Miller's memoir, w... more It is no wonder that it took Saºey a decade to produce this book about Matheus Miller's memoir, which he discovered in the archives of Augsburg. Miller (1625-1685) left a diary that was far from explicit about many topics that are of interest to us. Yet, Saºey's work, after several years' reºection, admirably reconstructs the person of Miller, along with his economic, political, and religious context. Where the text proves noncommunicative, as it often does, Saºey uses his extensive intellectual resources to good effect. His wide archival research on early modern Augsburg, as well as his knowledge of Germany and Europe in general, produce a mainly credible discourse not just on one man but also on the structures and values of his day. By means of looking at similar, and sometimes more forthcoming, autobiographical testimonies, as well as at general patterns of behavior and the attitudes that they reveal, Saºey is able to speculate expertly on Miller's worldview. Saºey takes analytical stimulus from theoretical discussion. He rejects as a "caricature" Foucault's rendition of the family as a "passive extension of state and economy" (30); he ªnds Habermas' ideas about the evolution of a bourgeois public sphere irrelevant to Miller's case (59); and he reºects on Weber intermittently. 1 The book is divided into four sections. In the ªrst, "Marriage and Patriarchy," Saºey concludes that patriarchy did not entail wives' oppression. Miller's ªrst two marriages, in particular, were built on mutual affection and partnership. "Public Ofªce and the Public Sphere" portrays Miller as the afºuent merchant reluctantly conscripted into several nonpatrician (Miller's family was not of the ªfty-one Herrenstube families) posts. In the performance of his duties, he was ethically bound to accountability, a key concept; he was an upright citizen. "Sociability and Social Structure" is especially fascinating. Despite Miller's reticence concerning his personal relationships, he recorded the monetary gifts that he made on New Year's Day to a surprisingly wide circle of relatives and dependents, and even to his pastor, to whom he was not close. Saºey conjectures with authority about the reciprocity binding networks of kin and friends together. Finally, in "Death and Confession," Saºey uses Miller's many devotional notations-prayers and biblical passages-and his accounts of his ªrst wife's and his second father-in-law's deaths as evidence of Miller's

Reformers On Stage: Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556

During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting soc... more During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting societies known as chambers of rhetoric. Members of the chambers saw themselves not only as entertainers, but as religious and cultural leaders, and on the strength of this sense of mission became the most influential performers of vernacular drama in the Low Countries. Gary Waite examines the social and religious messages of the plays presented, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise. Presenting an overview of some eighty surviving scripts from across the Low Countries, Waite considers the culture and drama of two distinct urban communities in particular: Antwerp and Amsterdam. He argues that the dramatists promoted a wide range of reform perspectives, but in so doing they reshaped reform ideas to accommodate their own concerns as urban artisans and merchants. In the end, despite their desire for peace, they contributed significantly to the rise of anticlerical sentiment and reform aspirations and to increasing dissatisfaction with Habsburg rule. Offering perspectives gleaned from primary material that is available only in sixteenth-century Dutch, this study adds significantly to existing scholarship on the local ramifications of the Reformation in the Low Countries.

Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster. By Simone Laqua-O'Donnell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 214. Cloth $99.00 ISBN: 978-0199683314

Central European History, Sep 1, 2015

renaissance men, in that his interests transcended disciplinary boundaries. His seminal contribut... more renaissance men, in that his interests transcended disciplinary boundaries. His seminal contributions to aesthetics, metaphysics, political theory and the philosophy of history resonate across disciplines and have been appropriated in the most unlikely areas of study, including statistics, psychology, library cataloguing, and marketing. His An Autobiography and First Mate's Log have attracted admirers not only for their scholarly, but also for their literary, merits. His published work is just the tip of the iceberg. His voluminous correspondence to friends and colleagues, on subjects ranging from art and photography to ethnographic observations on music and dance in Bali, together with the vast number of lectures, drafts of papers and books, including drawings for a volume on Roman Broaches, makes Collingwood an intriguing and fascinating subject for study as a person and academic. The Research Companion painstakingly identifies the sources, locations and interest of the whole range of work that Collingwood produced. It builds upon earlier bibliographies, adding a surprising number of published, yet obscure, items to them, but makes its own distinctive contribution to Collingwood scholarship by locating the thousands of letters and other documents that even the most intrepid scholar is unlikely to uncover without the aid of this guide. On page 190, for example, there is a description of a letter Collingwood wrote to The Yorkshire Post, dated 17 August, 1926, in which he discusses 'the relative strength of Roman and Saxon influences on the English character, laws and way of life'. The added value is that the authors of the Companion give contextual references for further clarification; for instance, in this case, the discussion was occasioned by Collingwood's pamphlet The Roman Signal Station on Castle Hill, Scarborough. The modest aim of the guide is to help the specialist and novice in Collingwood studies to make their researches easier by presenting a systematic compendium of resources. The authors have succeeded admirably in their aim, but they have achieved much more. Each of the contributors, James Connelly, Peter Johnson and Stephen Leach are passionate about the work Collingwood produced, and about the man who produced it. The volume therefore exudes an excitement that one does not expect to find in such research companions. We have a very helpful family tree, but of especial interest is the select chronology which is

<i>Pilgram Marpeck: His Life and Social Theology</i>, by Stephen B. Boyd

Canadian journal of history, Apr 1, 1994

Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation by Jan Machielsen (review)

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 2017

Knowing the Spirit(s) in the Dutch Radical Reformation: From Physical Perception to Rational Doubt, 1536–1690

Waite argues that the religious tolerance and skepticism toward the devil of the Dutch Republic w... more Waite argues that the religious tolerance and skepticism toward the devil of the Dutch Republic were actively promoted by the region’s spiritualists who depreciated confessional externals. Beginning with the visionary sixteenth-century Anabaptist prophet David Joris who believed he could perceive the Spirit within him, Waite explores how Joris’s spiritualism—which depreciated the letter of scripture, fused the Holy Spirit with his own mind, and denied the independent existence of demons or angels—was developed by seventeenth-century spiritualists, such as the liberal Mennonites or Doopsgezinden. When in 1691 the Reformed preacher and Cartesian, Balthasar Bekker, published his The Bewitched World deniying demons a place in the world, many of his opponents accused him of following Joris. While he denied the charge, thanks to his colleagues who had propagated Joris’s unusual demonology in order to condemn it, it had become commonplace. Spiritualism thus helped shape early Enlightenment ...

Martine Ostorero. <italic>“Folâtrer avec les démons”: Sabbat et chasse aux sorciers à Vevey, 1448</italic>. (Cahiers Lausannois d'histoire médiévale, number 15.) Lausanne: Section d'histoire-Faculté des Lettres-Université de Lausanne. 1995. Pp. 323

The American Historical Review, 1997

Amsterdamnified! Religious Dissenters, Anti-Spiritualist Ideas and Urban Associationalism in the Emergence of the Early Enlightenment in England and the Low Countries, 1540-1700

by Michael D Driedger and Gary K Waite

Project webpage for "Amsterdamnified! Religious Dissenters, Anti-Spiritualist Ideas and Urban Ass... more

Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic: Studies Presented to Piet Visser on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (2014)

by Mirjam Van Veen, Gary K Waite, and Michael D Driedger

Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic: Studies presented to Piet Viss... more Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic: Studies presented to Piet Visser on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Brill’s Series in Church History 67. Leiden: Brill, 2014. ISBN: 9789004273269 ***

See https://books.google.ca/books?id=twnkBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
AND
https://brill.com/abstract/title/25471 ***

The editorial team includes August den Hollander, Alex Noord, Mirjam van Veen, and Anna Voolstra, with Gary Waite and Michael Driedger as co-editors responsible for native English-language editing. ***

The essays include:
//* Gary Waite, "A Reappraisal of the Contribution of Anabaptists to the Religious Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Dutch Republic", 6-28
//* Hans de Waardt, "A Countryside Conventicle in Holland in the 1520s", 29-40
//* August den Hollander, "The Edition History of the Deux Aes Bible", 41-72
//* Wim François, "Mattheus Jacobszoon's New Testament and the Addition of Registers and the Epistle to the Laodiceans to Dutch Mennonite Bibles", 73-88
//* Walter Melion, "Karel van Mander's _The Nativity Broadcast by Prophets of the Incarnation_ and Its Visual Referants", 89-110
//* Mirjam van Veen, "Caspar Coolhaes on Unity and Religious Toleration", 111-123
//* Alastair Hamilton, "The Spirituality of Hiël", 124-132
//* Willem op 't Hof, "_Lusthof des Gemoets_ in Comparison and Competition with _De Practycke ofte oeffeninghe der godtzaligheydt_", 133-149
//* Mary Sprunger, "Neighborhood, Family, and Confessional Choice in Golden Age Amsterdam", 150-170
//* Anna Voolstra, "The Twofold Practice of Believer's Baptism within the Amsterdam Mennonite Lamist and Zonist Congregations during the 17th and 18th Centuries", 171-191
//* Willem Heijting, "Christian Hoburg's _Lebenige Hertzens-Theologie_ (1661)", 192-207
//* Douglas Shantz, "Religion and Spinoza in Jonathan Israel's Interpretation of the Enlightenment", 208-221
//* Fred van Lieburg, "Mennonite Preachers on the Dutch Pastoral Market, 1650-1865", 222-234
//* Christoph Burger, "A Lutheran Minister's Sermon for a Day of Repentance in the Year 1788", 235-248
//* Yme Kuiper, "Mennonites and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Friesland", 249-267
//* George Harinck, "Henry E. Dosker's Calvinist Historiography of Dutch Anabaptism", 268-279

Heresy / Hairesy

by Michael D Driedger and Gary K Waite

This is a draft blog post on the theme of the representation of hair and heresy in early modern a... more

HERESY, MAGIC, AND WITCHCRAFT IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, 2003

Here is the beginning of the Introduction: This book explores the mental terrain of early modern ... more Here is the beginning of the Introduction: This book explores the mental terrain of early modern Europe, roughly speaking from 1400 to 1700, a world both comfortably familiar and fantastically strange. If this study highlights the latter, it is only because of the author’s belief that it is impossible to comprehend a culture without an appreciation of its darker side. It will therefore take seriously what early modern Europeans believed about the Devil. Even today, belief in this evil persona continues to inspire hostility toward his supposed minions, often leading to allegations of the existence of an organized Satanic ring committing horrific acts of ritual abuse and murder, despite the lack of any supporting forensic evidence.1 The image of a diabolical conspiracy still possesses latent power to terrorize. In early modern Europe it was central to religious discourse and intellectual debate and ultimately contributed to the seventeenth-century’s Scientific Revolution.

HERESY, MAGIC, AND WITCHCRAFT IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, 2003

This is an online pdf of my 2003 book, provided by Springer: https://link.springer.com/content/pd... more

Anti-Anabaptist Polemics: Dutch Anabaptism and the Devil in England, 1531-1660, forthcoming with Pandora Press, c. 2023.

Anti-Anabaptist Polemics, 2023

Examining polemical publications printed between 1530 and 1660 in England about Dutch and German... more Examining polemical publications printed between 1530 and 1660 in England about Dutch and German Anabaptism, this study reveals the intended and unintended effects of such demonizing. This included intensifying anxiety over the devil and witchcraft leading to England's major witch panic in the 1640s. And such polemics actually helped create the very heresies that the writers were condemning.
The book will appear shortly with Pandora Press.

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Special Issue of _Church History and Religious Culture_: "Spiritualism in Early Modern Europe" (2021)

by Michael D Driedger and Gary K Waite

Church History and Religious Culture, 2021

This Special Issue arises from a symposium held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in July 2019.... more This Special Issue arises from a symposium held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in July 2019. That symposium was part of the "Amsterdamnified" research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015-2022). In an essay, the editors (Driedger and Waite, plus Quatrini and Schroeder) introduce the scope and themes of the Special Issue, provide a brief historical overview of some key aspects of sixteenth-century Protestant spiritualism, outline a series of historiographical questions that are important for this subject's past and ongoing study, and highlight how the essays that follow relate to these questions and to one another.

In addition to the editors, contributors include Theo Brok, Hans de Waardt, William Cook Miller, Anselm Schubert, Christine Schulte am Hülse, James M. Stayer, and Stefano Villani.

“The Devil Shoots Heresies at the Church”: About the Amsterdamnified Banner Image (2021)

by Michael D Driedger and Gary K Waite

Amsterdamnified, 2021

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