Gary Waite
Dr. Gary Waite (Sixteenth-Century Netherlands and Germany, Continental Reformation Studies, Early Modern European Religion, Mentalités and Popular Culture) holds his doctorate from the University of Waterloo.
He is the author of several books:
- Reformers on Stage: Popular Drama and Religious Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556 (University of Toronto Press, 2000);
- Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003),
- and Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe (University of Toronto Press, 2007; paperback edition in June, 2009).
- He is editor and translator of The Anabaptist Writings of David Joris (Herald Press, 1994).
- His first book, David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism (1990), is now available digitally.
He has published articles in
- Journal of Early Modern History, Renaissance Quarterly, Social History, Sixteenth Century Journal, Archive for Reformation History, Church History, Dutch Review of Church History, Fides et Historia, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, Renaissance and Reformation, The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Canadian Journal of History, The Mennonite Encyclopedia V, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, and The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition.
He has also published or has forthcoming several chapters in books, most recently including:
- "Demonizing Rhetoric, Reformation Heretics and the Witch Sabbaths: Anabaptists and Witches in Elite Discourse," in The Devil in Society in the Premodern World, eds. Richard Raiswell with Peter Dendle, Essays and Studies series, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto, 2012), 195-220;
- "Sixteenth Century Religious Reform and the Witch-Hunts." Chapter 27 of The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, ed. Brian Levack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 485-506.
- "Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed, Mennonites and Spiritualists on One Other, Jews and Muslims." Calvin at 500: A Special Supplement of the Toronto Journal of Theology, ed. Peter Wyatt, Supplement 1 (2010), 27-40.
- "Irrelevant Interruption or Precipitating Cause? The Sixteenth-Century Reformation and the Revival of the European Witch Hunts," in Chasses aux sorciéres: discours et démonologie: entre discours et pratiques (Moyen Age - Epoque moderne), eds. Georg Modestin, Martine Ostorero, and Kathrin Utz Tremp (Firenze: Sismel, 2010), 223-242.
- Naked Harlots or Devout Maidens? Images of Anabaptist Women in the Context of the Iconography of Witches in Europe, 1525-1650," forthcoming in Mirjam van Veen, Piet Visser, and Gary K. Waite, eds., Myth and Reality of Anabaptist / Mennonite Women, c. 1525-1900, Brill's Series in Church History (Leiden: Brill, c.2013).
- “Apocalyptical Terrorists or a Figment of Governmental Paranoia? Re-evaluating the Religious Terrorism of Sixteenth-Century Anabaptists in the Netherlands and Holy Roman Empire, 1535-1570,” in Michael Driedger, Anselm Schubert, and Astrid von Schlachta, eds., Margins of Anabaptism, (Gütersloh: Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte, 2009), 105-25.
He is presently immersed in research on his new SSHRC project, "The Religious Other in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Christians, Jews and Muslims," having presented papers at several scholarly conferences on the subject, including; "Empathy for the Persecuted or Polemical Posturing? The 1609 Spanish Expulsion of the Moriscos as Seen in English and Netherlandic Pamphlets," Journal of Early Modern History 17 (2013), 95-123; "Reimagining Islam: The Moor in Dutch and English Pamphlets, 1550-1620," forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly (2013); and "Menno and Muhammad: Anabaptists and Mennonites Reconsider Islam, 1570-1650," Sixteenth Century Journal 41 (2010), 995-1016. He is the editor of the "Witch Hunt" entry in the Oxford Bibliographies Online. He is also acting as coeditor of a volume of papers on the image of Anabaptist women and another on Exile and Religous Identities, 1500-1800.
He teaches courses in Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe, including courses on medieval religion and magic, the early modern European witch hunts, and race and racism in the west.
He is currently the Chair of the Department of History.
On April 7th, 2005, he was made a University Research Scholar for a two year term.
A copy of Dr. Waite's cv is available here.
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Contact Information:
Office: Tilley 137
Phone: (506)452-6158
