Journal of Early Modern History

JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | John Carter Brown Library Zoom link: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ERxVIYvZROWkIFcp8gH7Ag

On Monday, author Casey Schmitt will discuss her new book THE PREDATORY SEA in a virtual event hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social! Learn more & register:

HUGELY looking forward to @araujohistorian.bsky.social’s paper in a week’s time! (So much so that we’re going to ignore that that means *IT’S DECEMBER IN A WEEK’S TIME*)

Join us in lovely Bloomsbury or on zoom!

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CfP 📣 We are pleased to co-organize the workshop “Indifference: Religious Boundaries in Question, 1650–1750”.
📅 28–29 May 2026 | 🌍 Goethe University Frankfurt

We warmly invite you to circulate the call and submit your proposal.
⏰ Application deadline: 10 November 2025

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CfP📢"Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period", Institutes of Philosophy and History, Czech Academy of Sciences
📆15–16 April 2026 |🌍Prague
⏰Application deadline: 30 October 2025
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Special Issue of the JEMH The Journal of Early Modern History 29.4 (2025)has a special issue, “Archives & Objects,” that features some articles for us. Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci, “Mate…

New special issue of @earlymodhistory.bsky.social featuring works by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan & Giuseppe Marcocci and @anastruillou.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/s...

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And the issue closes with an article by Anne T. Gerritsen, "Kang Wang’s Helmet and the Archivality of Chinese Popular Religious Practice." brill.com/view/journal...

Next, we have "Mughal Hands, Envelopes, and the Materiality of Trans-Imperial Archives" by Subah Dayal. brill.com/view/journal...

This is followed by "Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean" by Ana Struillou. brill.com/view/journal...

Next is "Piecing Back the Puzzle: Objects, Inventories, and the Problem of Classification" by Suzanne Ivanič. brill.com/view/journal...

Next, we have an open-access article by Filippo de Vivo, "A Cock for the Records: Posted Libels as Archival Objects." brill.com/view/journal...

Our August issue, 29.4, is now available online! This issue opens with an open-access article by Yonatan Glazer-Eytan and Giuseppe Marcocci, "Material Culture and Early Modern Archivality: A Dialogue." brill.com/view/journal...

WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.

Global early Americanists--check out this great opportunity! The June 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop is convened by Alison Games on the topic of "Global Early America before 1700". Call for Papers is below; apps due by Sept. 15.
@gamesaf.bsky.social #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica

Finally, we have a review essay by Zeynep Ağdemir, "Taxation and Fiscal Policy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
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Our regular articles for the issue close with Rebecca Earle's "The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker"
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Next, we have "The Last Mediterranean Galleys of the Caribbean: Maritime Captivity and Labor Regimes in Cartagena de Indias (1578–1631)" by Leonardo G. Moreno-Álvarez
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Our June issue, 29.3, is now available online! The issue opens with an open-access article from Shai Zamir, "Lima Produces Saints for Spain and the Caribbean: The Miraculous Case of Antonio de San Pedro" brill.com/view/journal...

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

Understanding King James VI & I: 400 years on A multi-day conference with accompanying workshops and activities that interrogate James' rich life and legacy.

Registration for the conference is now open 🥳

There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes)

We can't wait to see everyone in July!!

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The Medici Archive Project is offering twelve short-term fellowships for graduate, pre-doctoral students, and postdoctoral candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history) #earlymodern 🗃️

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.

Deadline Extension! CEMS Colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives. Send us your abstracts by this Friday (18th)!

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The issue closes with book reviews by William F. Connell, Daniel Pfitzer, and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva brill.com/view/journal...

Finally, we have a forum by Jan Hennings, Carina L. Johnson, Macabe Keliher, Kaya Şahin, and Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger brill.com/view/journal...

Macabe Keliher's "Legitimate Domination in the Early Modern World: Temple, Ritual, and Symbolic Power in Late Imperial China" closes the article portion of the issue brill.com/view/journal...

Sixiang Wang's open-access article, "The King’s Conveyance: The Ritual Dispute of 1488 and the Unwritten Constitution of Early Modern Korean-Chinese Diplomacy" follows brill.com/view/journal...

Next, we have Arne Spohr's "'In Our Raven-Like Body … Blooms a Heart as White as a Lily': Sonic, Visual, and Textual Imaginings of Blackness in Court Festivals of the Protestant Union, 1596–1617" brill.com/view/journal...

Followed by "A Monstrous Assemblage: The Story Less Ordinary of a Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Manuscript" by Saygin Salgirli: brill.com/view/journal...

Nancy S. Kollmann's "Adventus and Entry? Symbolic Communication Between Ruler and Ruled in Sixteenth-Century Russia" opens the issue proper: brill.com/view/journal...

Our double Special Issue (29.1/2), Political Ceremonies and Rituals: Global Perspectives is now available online. The issue begins with an open-access Introduction by Carina L. Johnson, Macabe Keliher, and Kaya Şahin brill.com/view/journal...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’ at University of London At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’. Explore our d...

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international