Journal of Early Modern History

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.
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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

The Hispanic American Historical Review has joined the Blunivers! #Skystorians #Skyhistorians #earlymodern

The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries

28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...

Screenshot of part of The Leverhulme Trust newsletter. Text on the left reads 'Call for Zooniverse Volunteers' with more details underneath. On the right is a tile reading 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790' with a drawing of a hand holding a quill underneath.

Many thanks to @leverhulme.bsky.social for including our ongoing call for volunteers (especially those who can read 16th-century handwriting) in their latest bulletin!

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Transcribe on Zooniverse here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

Image shows a poster for the conference, listing Lunds universitet, Australian Catholic University, and the University of Plymouth as research partners. Next to a logo for Vetenskapsrådet is the statement "Moved Apart is financed by a Research Environment Grant from the Swedish Research Council". The background image for the poster is an etching by Willem Basse from 1632-34 titled "Afscheid en terugkeer op de kust". It shows people standing on a shore watching departing boats. The poster includes the following text (truncated to meet character limit): Moved Apart studies how separation was communicated in East Asia and Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. ... This conference seeks proposals that contribute to further our knowledge of how separation was communicated in different parts of the world (Africa, America, Asia, Europe) in the 16th and 17th centuries. We particularly encourage submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Life Stages. How did life stages shape experience of separation as a fundamental part of everyday life, as people grew up, left home, relocated, found themselves and navigated their place within the world, and in turn how did separations shape premodern experience of life stages? * Time and Space. How was separation experienced through spatial, geographic and temporal forms of perceived distance and in turn how did separation shape the perceptions and realities of space, time, and geography? * Letters. How was separation shaped by letters, particularly their rhetorical and material dimensions, and in turn how did separation shape epistolary and postal practices? We invite scholars interested in presenting their research at the conference to send a 300-word abstract to project assistance Cecilia Lundström at cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se The deadline for submitting a proposal is 3 March 2025 and you will be notified of the results by the end of March 2025.

Call for papers! "Moved Apart" is hosting a conference on early modern global separation in Lund, Sweden from 20 to 22 August 2025.

300-word abstracts are due by 3 March 2025.

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