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The Historiography of the Mennonites in the Netherlands
A Guide to Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
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This study is not intended to give a complete bibliography of contributions by or on Dutch Mennonites. The writer plans to do this in a later study. This article is limited to giving an outline of the historiography of the Dutch Mennonites and to tracing the trends of development in this field. The main writers and their works will be mentioned.
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78 Catalogus, 265–279, 329–331.
79 Catalogus, 188.
80 In Jaarboekje voor Doopsgezinde gemeenten (1837).