Publications

Monography

Romein, C.A. (2021), Protecting the fatherland. Lawsuits and political debates in Jülich, 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 présentées à la commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Assemblées d’États, #103.
  • Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74240-9. 🔓

Edited Volume(s)

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 Issue(s)

Härter, K., Romein, C. A., & Wüst, 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

  • 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). 🔓
  • Härter, K., Romein, C. A. & Wüst, 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 

  • 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 Assessing advanced handwritten text recognition engines for digitizing historical documents.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., Chagué, 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), ‘Jülicher Patrioten am Ende des Dreissigjährigen Krieges (1642–1652).’  Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, 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 Jülich 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 Jülich-Berg (1642–1652) and Hesse-Cassel (1646–1655)’, in: Quiros Rosado, R. & Bravo Lozano, C. (Hrsg.), Los hilos de Penélope. Lealtad y fidelidades en la Monarquía 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), Mandatenbücher (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 verfügbar. 🔓

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 Büchern]. 🔓

ATR-models (embedded within Transkribus)

  • Dutch Dean. Supermodel TrHTR. ID: 309753 (Co-coordinator)
  • Dutch Demeter I. Supermodel TrHTR. ID: 58997 (Co-coordinatorn)
  • 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 Cómo 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.

Podcast

Romein, C.A.; Fuchs, I.; Schillemans, B.; Heijmans, I. (2021), Podcast: Leugens in het land. Folge 5: Bedriegers aan de macht – über Macht und Moral in einem spätmittelalterlichen 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., 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 tégen 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

Romein, 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 Vierteljahrsblätter, 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 Müller, 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 Monografieën Grote Serie Deel 12 (Verloren, Hilversum 2014), 659, ISBN: 978-90-8704-192-2; €35,00. Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, 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 Centuryvolume 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, “The 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 landständischen Verfassung: Kreativität, Heuchelei und Repräsentation in Hessen (1509–1655) [Review: Die Erschaffung der landständischen Verfassung: Kreativität, Heuchelei und Repräsentation in Hessen (1509–1655)]. German History(online/ journal). http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/3/467.extract

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