dr. J.W. (Joop W.) Koopmans

2006-2008/2011 Project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c. 1450-c. 1800)

drawn up together with Martin Gosman in cooperation with Philiep Bossier (University of Groningen), Mette Bruun and Nils Holger Petersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and Kathryn Banks and David Cowling (Durham University, United Kingdom

funded by ICOG Groningen, NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), the Danish National Research Foundation and the British Academy

results: three workshops and three volumes

workshop 1: in Copenhagen, 25-26 November 2006: 'Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt'

workshop 2:  in Durham, 17-19 September 2007: 'Consolidation of God-given Power'

workshop 3: in Groningen, 17-19 September 2008: 'Legitimation of Authority'

volume 1: Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period I: Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Revolt, ed. by David Cowling and Mette Bruun (Leuven, Paris and Walpole MA: Peeters, 2011).

volume 2: Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period II: Consolidation of God-given Power, ed by Kathryn Banks and Philiep G. Bossier (Leuven, Paris and Walpole MA: Peeters, 2011).

volume 3: Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period III: Legitimation of Authority, ed. by Joop W. Koopmans and Nils Holger Petersen (Leuven, Paris and Walpole MA: Peeters, 2011).

I am co-editor of this new encyclopedia, with about 10,000 entries, to be published in September 2016.  Dr. Jacob van Sluis and I were responsible for the entries about the Frisian history from the late Middle Ages until 1945.