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Author: Jaap Geraerts

Jaap Geraerts · Writing European History / Europäische Geschichte schreiben

Rome and the Pius Brothers: The Conflict behind the New Schism

IEG researcher Jaap Geraerts compares the schism of the Society of Saint Pius with the 18th-century Utrecht Schism and interprets both as distinct reactions to modern church councils.

Jaap Geraerts · DH Lab

Priests’ libraries – Part 2: making our data operable

by Jaap Geraerts and Teresa Wendel In a previous blog post that appeared almost three years ago (tempus fugit!), I introduced a small (pilot) project on priests’ libraries from the early modern Dutch Republic. Since then, a lot has happened – in general, but also in relation to this project.…

Jaap Geraerts · Text+ Blog

Text+Plus, #01: From Treaty to FAIR Data: FriVer+

Autor: Jaap Geraerts In 2023, the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz is running the project Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne in Daten (FriVer+).

Jaap Geraerts · DH Lab

Dealing with uncertainty and capturing the underrepresented

by Jaap Geraerts Since I started my project on the schism in the Catholic Church in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic in the summer of 2019, I have been creating a dataset that comprises the information contained in lists of baptisms, burials, and marriages. This information enables me to trace the…

Jaap Geraerts · DH Lab

The Archaeology of Reading, COVID-19, and online teaching

Prior to taking up my current position at the IEG, I was based at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) at University College London where I served as the postdoctoral fellow on the digital humanities project “The Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe” (AOR). An international collaboration…