Publications

Monography

🔓Romein, C.A. (2021), Protecting the fatherland. Lawsuits and political debates in JĂŒlich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany 1642-1655 (Cham).

  • Studies in the History of Law and Justice, #20.
  • Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions/ Études prĂ©sentĂ©es Ă  la commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des AssemblĂ©es d’États, #103.
  • Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74240-9.

Edited Volume

Brandon, P., Heerma van Voss, L., Romein, C.A. (2022), The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents. Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein ’t Hart (London/ New York).

Special Issues

🔓HĂ€rter, K., Romein, C. A., & WĂŒst, W. B. (2024). Gute Policey in early modern rural areas: local societies, police ordinances and digital methods. Journal for digital legal history. https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.issue.25287

🔓C.A. Romein, L. Doak, H. Parker, J. Weston (March 2022), Special Issue History: Public History, Volume 107, Issue 375; pp. 207-450. https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.issue.25287

Journal Articles | Thematically organised

Political-Institutional History/ Cultural History of Politics

  • 🔓Romein, C. A. (2024), ‘State of the Field: Digital Legal History.’ Journal for Digital Legal History, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.91695 (peer-reviewed).
  • 🔓HĂ€rter, K., Romein, C. A. & WĂŒst, W. B. (2024), ‘Gute Policey in early modern rural areas: local societies, police ordinances and digital methods.’ Journal for Digital Legal History, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.90223.
  • 🔓Romein, C. A. (2022), ‘Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community.’ The Seventeenth Century, 37(6), 1031–1056. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2022.2111339 (review-article).
  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Veldhoen, S.F., de Gruijter, M. (2020), ‘ The Datafication of Early Modern Ordinances.’ DHBenelux 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/80sx-m116/ (peer-reviewed). 
  • Romein, C.A. (2019), ‘Blood Sports and Festivities in Normative Provincial Publications.’ Nieuwe Tijdingen, 3, 121–136. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd83fx.8 (peer-reviewed).

Digital Humanities/ Digital Methodology 

  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Kırmızıaltın, S., Reshef, R., Schneider, C., Agostini, G., Charlton, A., Terras, M., Nockels, J., Ahn, S., Aladağ, F., Capurro, C., Damsma, L., De Vita, L., Fahnenbruck, L., Gielis, G., Griffiths, R., Keinan-Schoonbaert, A., Kuijpers, E., El Attal, M., MĂŒhlberger, G., Omollo, J.N., Rabus, A., Spina, S., al Assali, N., Torres FlawiĂĄ, E., Wrisley, D.J., Wilbrink, H. (2025), ‘Automatic Text Recognition of Historical Text Collections: From Research Proposal to Project Management. A Guide from the Transkribus Community on Planning and Executing Workflows for Researchers and GLAM-Professionals’, International Journal of Digital Humanities, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-025-00107-7
  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Rabus, A., Leifert, G. et al. Assessing advanced handwritten text recognition engines for digitizing historical documents. Int J Digit Humanities (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-025-00100-0
  • 🔓Terras, M., Anzinger, B., Gooding, P. et al. (2025), ‘The artificial intelligence cooperative: READ-COOP, Transkribus, and the benefits of shared community infrastructure for automated text recognition’ Open Research Europe, 5:16. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.18747.1 (peer-reviewed). 
  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Hodel, T., Gordijn, F., van Zundert, J.J., ChaguĂ©, A. et al. (2024), ‘Exploring Data Provenance in Handwritten Text Recognition Infrastructure.’ JDMDH. https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.10403 (peer-reviewed). 
  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Wagner, A., van Zundert, J. J. (2023), ‘Building and Deploying a Classification Schema using Open Standards and Technology.’ Journal for Digital Legal History, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.85751 (peer-reviewed). 
  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Kemman, M., Birkholz, J.M., Baker, J., de Gruijter, M., Meroño-Peñuela, A., Ries, T., Ros, R. & Scagliola, S. (2020), ‘State of the field: Digital History.’ History. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12969 (peer-reviewed). 

Political Terminology and Communication/ Public History

  • 🔓Romein, C.A., Doak, L., Parker, H. & Weston, J. (2022), ‘History in Public: Power and Process, Harm and Help.’ History, 107, 211–234. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13273 (peer-reviewed). 
  • 🔓Romein, C. A. (2021), ‘Booming Business. Communication, Print and Advertisement in the Seventeenth Century.’ The Seventeenth Century.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2020.1845787 (review article). 
  • 🔓Romein, C. A. (2020), ‘JĂŒlicher Patrioten am Ende des DreissigjĂ€hrigen Krieges (1642–1652).’  Rheinische VierteljahrsblĂ€tter, 80–102.
    https://digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de/periodical/pageview/9804207. 
  • 🔓Romein, C.A. (2015), ‘Gulik: dynastieke belangen, oorlog en welvaart. De woordkeuze van de getrouwe patriot 1642–1652’. Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis. Jaargang 68, 139–150 https://doi.org/10.21825/kzm.v68i0.17482 (peer-reviewed).
  • Romein, C.A. (2014), ‘Fatherland Rhetoric and the ‘threat of absolutism’: Hesse-Cassel and the Reichskammergericht (1646–1655)’. The Seventeenth Century, 29(3), 277–292. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2014.926458 (peer-reviewed).

Bookchapters – Thematically ordered

Political-Institutional History

  • Romein, C.A. (2022), ‘2006. Dieren in de volksvertegenwoordiging’, in: Heerma van Voss, L., Bouras, N., ’t Hart, M., van der Heijden, M. & Lucassen, L. (Hrsg.), Nog Meer Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland, Amsterdam, 678–684.
  • Romein, C.A. (2022), ‘The Formative Role of Early Modern Books of Ordinances: The Low Countries and Their Overseas Lands’, in: Brandon, P., Heerma van Voss, L. & Romein, C.A. (Hrsg.), The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents. Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein ’t Hart, London/New York, 89–112.
  • Brandon, P., Romein, C.A. and Heerma van Voss, L. (2022), ‘Introduction: The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries, and Discontents’. In: Brandon, P., Heerma van Voss, L., Romein, C.A., The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents. Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein ’t Hart (London/ New York), pp. 1-14.

Political Terminology and Communication/ Public History

  • Romein, C.A. (2020), ‘How Local Politics Became a Matter of Transregional Concern. German and Dutch Pamphlets Calling JĂŒlich Nobility to Assemble in Cologne, 1642–1651’, in: De Ridder, B., Soen, V., Thomas, W. & Verreyken, S. (Hrsg.), Transregional Territories: Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond, Turnhout: Brepols, 131–151 (peer-reviewed).
  • Romein, C.A. (2015), ‘Vaterland, patria und Patriot in den Rechtsangelegenheiten Hessen-Kassels (1647–1655)’, in: Denzler, A., Franke, E. & Schneider, B. (Hrsg.), Prozessakten, Parteien, Partikularinteressen. Höchstgerichtsbarkeit in der Mitte Europas vom 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert (Bibliothek Altes Reich, Band 17), Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 117–136. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110360202-008 (peer-reviewed).
  • Romein, C.A. (2015), ‘Fatherland rhetoric and the nobility’s loyalty in German principalities JĂŒlich-Berg (1642–1652) and Hesse-Cassel (1646–1655)’, in: Quiros Rosado, R. & Bravo Lozano, C. (Hrsg.), Los hilos de PenĂ©lope. Lealtad y fidelidades en la MonarquĂ­a de España (1648–1714), Valencia: Albatros Ediciones, 57–66 (peer-reviewed).

Datasets

C.A. Romein en J.C. Romein (2025), Handmatige Layout Analyse NL-ZlHCO_0003.1 (Collectie Overijssel – Resoluties van de Staten van Overijssel). https://zenodo.org/records/15010938 (Embargo!)

🔓Romein, C.A. (2024), MandatenbĂŒcher (1528–1798) – Digitalisierung und Anwendung von Handschriftenerkennung (Transkribus); StAB A I 479–515, 517–518. Die Daten sind im Katalog des Staatsarchivs des Kantons Bern verfĂŒgbar.

🔓Romein, C.A., Veldhoen, S.F. & de Gruijter, M. (2020). Entangled Histories. https://lab.kb.nl/dataset/entangled-histories-ordinances-low-countries [Datensatz mit 107 BĂŒchern]. 🔓

ATR-models (embedded within Transkribus)

  • Dutch Dean. Supermodel TrHTR. ID: 309753 (Co-coordinator)
  • Dutch Demeter I. Supermodel TrHTR. ID: 58997 (Co-coordinator)
  • Transkribus Community, The Dutchess I. ID: 50786 (Coordinator)
  • Ball, Rachael; Parker, Geoffrey; Hispanic Society of America; Romein, C.A. (2021), Transkribus Public HTR Model: Carlos V/ Charles V CĂłmo ser rey_1543 Model Pylaia (ID 48323)
  • Gribnau, T.; Boer, P.; Nellissen, L.; Begheyn SJ, P.; Caspers, C.; Romein, C.A. (2020), Transkribus Public Model: NeoLatin_Ravenstein_1643–1772.
  • Romein, C.A.; Veldhoen, S.F.; de Gruijter, M. (2019), Transkribus Public Model Pylaia: Dutch_Gothic_Print.
  • Romein, C.A.; Veldhoen, S.F.; de Gruijter, M. (2019), Transkribus Public Model Pylaia: Dutch_Romantype_Print.
  • Romein, C.A.; Veldhoen, S.F.; de Gruijter, M. (2019), Transkribus Public Model Pylaia: French_18thC_print.
  • Romein, C.A.; Veldhoen, S.F.; de Gruijter, M. (2019), Transkribus Public Model HTR+: Dutch_Gothic_Print.
  • Romein, C.A.; Veldhoen, S.F.; de Gruijter, M. (2019), Transkribus Public Model HTR+: Dutch_Romantype_Print.
  • Romein, C.A.; Veldhoen, S.F.; de Gruijter, M. (2019), Transkribus Public Model HTR+: French_18thC_print.

Semi-academic contributions

Edited volume

🔓C.A. Romein, M. Terras, A. Stauder, B. Anzinger, F. Stauder (Mai 2025), Praeteritum transcriptum. A Transkribus Tribute:  Celebrating our First Five Years as a Cooperative (2019-2024), READ COOP SCE, Innsbruck. https://zenodo.org/records/15308678  ISBN: 9798284999653

Conference proceedings – archives

Prokop, H. und Romein, C.A. (2025), ‘Einsatz von kĂŒnstlicher Intelligenz bei der automatischen Handschriftenerkennung. Das Beispiel Transkribus.’ Tagungsband zum Tag der Archive 2024, S.99-116.

Podcast

🔓Romein, C.A.; Fuchs, I.; Schillemans, B.; Heijmans, I. (2021), Podcast: Leugens in het land. Folge 5: Bedriegers aan de macht – ĂŒber Macht und Moral in einem spĂ€tmittelalterlichen Tierepos. https://aventure-ensemble.nl/podcast/ or
https://soundcloud.com/user-40101378/leugens-in-het-land-vijftiende-eeuwse-muziek-rond-reynaerts-historie-aflevering-5

Blogs/ valorisation

Romein, C.A. (Juni 2025) ‘Kun je die 200.000 teksten niet gewoon zelf lezen?’ Hoe digital humanities historisch onderzoek veranderen. (Column) Skript Historisch Tijdschrift, 47.2, S.32-34. [DOI follows later]

🔓Romein, C.A., Bes, R. and Oosterhuis, J.J. (2022), ‘Dossier 1572 – Sancties tegen ‘piraten, zee-roovers, ledigh-gangers, [en] quaet-geboefte’’ Historici Dossier 1572. https://www.historici.nl/dossier-1572-sancties-tegen-piraten-zee-roovers-ledigh-gangers-en-quaet-geboefte/?type=bijdrage

🔓Romein, C.A., Oosterhuis, J.J. and Bes, R. (2022), ‘Dossier 1572 – Overheidscommunicatie tĂ©gen de Geuzen: plakkaten in context’ Historici Dossier 1572. https://www.historici.nl/dossier-1572-overheidscommunicatie-tegen-de-geuzen-plakkaten-in-context/?type=bijdrage

🔓Romein, C.A. (2020) How to run a country: Early Modern Style? (blog). History; British Historical Association. https://historyjournal.org.uk/2020/05/08/how-to-run-a-country-early-modern-style/

🔓Romein, C.A. (2019). Plakkaten classificeren met de computer? (blog). KB National Library of the Netherlands. (available: 28 Jun 2019). http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8624193

🔓Romein, C.A. (2019). Digital Humanities and Legal History Can the computer read and classify ordinances? (blog). ESCLH; Koninklijke Bibliotheek. (available: 30 Aug 2019). https://lab.kb.nl/about-us/blog/digital-humanities-and-legal-history-can-computer-read-and-classify-ordinances

🔓Romein, C.A. (2019). The Challenge of Using Digital and Digitised Sources for Journals and Articles: An ECR-Editor’s View. (blog). Wiley. (available: 13 Nov 2019). http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8648842

🔓Romein, C.A. (2020). Entangled Histories: bumps in the road and bursts of success. (blog). Koninklijke Bibliotheek. (available: 6 Jan 2020). https://lab.kb.nl/about-us/blog/entangled-histories-bumps-road-and-bursts-success

🔓Romein, C.A. (2020). Entangled Histories: Segmentation. (blog). Koninklijke Bibliotheek. (available: 6 Jan 2020). https://lab.kb.nl/about-us/blog/entangled-histories-segmentation

🔓Romein, C.A. (2020). Entangled Histories: OCR + HTR = ATR: Automatic Text Recognition. (blog). Koninklijke Bibliotheek. (available: 6 Jan 2020). https://lab.kb.nl/about-us/blog/entangled-histories-ocr-htr-atr-automatic-text-recognition

🔓C.A. Romein (2016), ‘Seventeenth century political communications. The nobility’s perception of the prince’s policy (1642-1655)’, EmbrACE 62 The power of storytelling (April 2016), pp. 29-30.

🔓C.A. Romein (2014, 12 November), vrede-van-xanten http://www.isgeschiedenis.nl/nieuws/vrede-van-xanten/

Bookreviews

R🔓omein, C. A. (2023). Book review: Jennifer Guiliano, A primer for Teaching Digital History. Ten Design Principles (Duke 2022). Journal for digital legal history, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.87170

🔓Romein, A. (2022). Review of: Christopher W. Close, State Formation and Shared Sovereignty. The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488-1696. Early Modern Low Countries. https://doi.org/10.51750/emlc13435

🔓ROMEIN, C. A. (2022). Review of: What is Early Modern History? By Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. History, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13303

🔓Romein, C. A. (2021). Government Use of Print: Official Publications in the Holy Roman Empire, 1500–1600. By Saskia Limbach. Vittorio Klostermann. 2021. xviii + 347pp. €79.00. History. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13244

🔓Romein, C.A. (2020). New perspectives on power and political representation from ancient history to the present day: repertoires of representation [Book review New perspectives on power and political representation from ancient history to the present day: repertoires of representation]. Parliaments, Estates and Representation.

🔓Romein, C.A. (2018). Book review Arthur der Weduwen, Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700. BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review. 132.
https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10471/

🔓Romein, C.A. (2017). Book review Manon van der Heijden, Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland. Holland. http://tijdschriftholland.nl/recensie-manon-heijden-women-and-crime-early-modern-holland/

🔓Romein, C.A. (2017). CARLO LEJEUNE (Hg.): Grenzerfahrungen: Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens Band 2: Tuche, Töpfe, Theresianischer Kataster (1500-1794) [Book review Grenzerfahrungen: Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens Band 2: Tuche, Töpfe, Theresianischer Kataster (1500-1794)]. Rheinische VierteljahrsblĂ€tter, 81, 436-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/rec.reg.934533247

🔓Romein, C.A. (2017), Book review Jasper van der Steen, Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 (Leiden/ Boston: Brill 2015, 370 pp, ISBN: 9789004300484) €115,00. BMGN-LCHR
https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10331/

🔓Romein, C.A. (2017). Johannes MĂŒller, Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt: The Narrated Diaspora, 1550-1750 [Book review Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt: The Narrated Diaspora, 1550-1750]. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (online).

🔓Romein, C.A. (2016). Book review Lotte Jensen (eds.), Roots of Nationalism The Roots of Nationalism. National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016, 342 pp, ISBN: 9789462981072) € 99, – or Open Access: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=606242 BMGN-LCHRhttps://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10326/.

🔓Romein, C.A. (2016). Book review Peter Nissen & Hein van der Bruggen, Roermond. Biografie van een stad en haar bewoners Maaslandse MonografieĂ«n Grote Serie Deel 12 (Verloren, Hilversum 2014), 659, ISBN: 978-90-8704-192-2; €35,00. Rheinische VierteljahrsblĂ€tter, 456-458. http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/rec.reg.908095248

Romein, C.A. (2016). Experiencing exile: Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700 [Review of: D.C. van der Linden, Experiencing exile: Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700. (Farnham & Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2015, xx + 289 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4724-2927-8)) Seventeenth Century, 384-385.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2016.1185023

Romein, C.A. (2016). Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic. [Review of:  August den Hollander, Alex Noord, Mirjam van Veen and Anna Voolstra (eds), Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic: Studies presented to Piet Visser on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2014, pp. ix + 286, h/b. €99.00/$128.00, ISBN: 978-9-004-27326-9) Seventeenth Century, 385-387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2016.1185027

Romein, C.A. (2014). Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the patriotic monarch. Patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought. [Review of: C. Cuttica, Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the patriotic monarch. Patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought. (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, x + 283pp. $ 105,00, ISBN 978-0-7190-8374-7) The Seventeenth Century, volume 29, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2014.966252

🔓Romein, C.A. (2014). Adel en ridderschap in Gelderland. [Bespreking van het boek: C.O.A. Schimmelpenninck van der Oije, F. Keverling Buisman, M.V.T. Tenten F.J.W. van Kan (eds.), Adel en ridderschap in Gelderland. Tien eeuwen geschiedenis (Zwolle, WBooks, 2013, 384 pp., €49,95, ISBN 9789066304505)BMGN-LCHRvolume 129 (2004). www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9565/

🔓Romein, C.A. (2014). Oorlogsliteratuur in de vroegmoderne tijd. [Bespreking van het boek: L. Jensen en N. Geerdink (red.), Oorlogsliteratuur in de vroegmoderne tijd. Vorm, identiteit en herinnering. (Hilversum: Verloren, 2013, 240 blz., € 25,-, ISBN 9789087043414)] BMGN – LCHRvolume 129 (2044). www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9556/

Romein, C.A. (2014). Protestant cosmopolitanism and diplomatic culture: Brandenburg– Swedish relations in the seventeenth century [Review: Protestant cosmopolitanism and diplomatic culture: Brandenburg– Swedish relations in the seventeenth century]. The Seventeenth Century. Volume 29, Issue 2, (2014) 219-221. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0268117X.2014.893410

Romein, C.A. (2014). Olivia Horsfall Turner, â€œThe Mirror of Great Britain”: national identity in seventeenth-century British architecture [Review: “The Mirror of Great Britain”: national identity in seventeenth-century British architecture]. The Seventeenth Century. Volume 29, Issue 2, (2014) 212-214. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0268117X.2014.893409

Romein, C.A. (2014). Die Erschaffung der landstĂ€ndischen Verfassung: KreativitĂ€t, Heuchelei und ReprĂ€sentation in Hessen (1509–1655) [Review: Die Erschaffung der landstĂ€ndischen Verfassung: KreativitĂ€t, Heuchelei und ReprĂ€sentation in Hessen (1509–1655)]. German History(online/ journal). http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/467.extract

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