Journal of Early Modern History

Journal of Early Modern History

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This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.

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Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

Next Thursday (March 5th) @ihrscb.bsky.social we are hosting the Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in #EarlyModern England. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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CFP!

Special issue of the journal Religions

"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"

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New on First View!

Diego Luis (@diegojavierluis.bsky.social) argues that the novelty of transpacific empire affected Mexico’s Indigenous peoples.

#PacificOean #Spain #empire #Mexio #colonialism #repartimiento #indigenous #labour #earlymodern #Dutch

Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

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18th-Century Women: Struggle, Fame or Fortune - Foundling Museum For International Women's Day, join us for a series of talks in collaboration with the Women's Studies Group, 1558–1837.

We're delighted to announce our event
@foundlingmuseum.bsky.social 8 March 2026, London, 2-4pm: "18th-Century Women, Struggle, Fame or Fortune". Talks will be in the Picture Gallery (free with Museum admission). Full list of speakers via link:
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Lastly, we have a review essay by Alan Strathern entitled "India as the World: The Challenge of Early Modernity."
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And the articles section closes with Kristian Price's "Sharks and European Colonial Empires: Changing Perceptions of Animal Intentionality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade."
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This is followed by John T. Wing's article, "The Making of Imperial Environments in Castile During the Reign of Philip II, 1556–1598."
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Then we have Erika Monahan's article, "Mapping for Travel and Conquest, Revealing Nature: Reading Remezov’s Maps for Insight into the Early Modern Siberian Environment."
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This is followed by Nükhet Varlık's article, "Plague and Migration: Rural Depopulation in the Ottoman Balkans and Anatolia during the Little Ice Age."
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Next is an article by Pratyay Nath, "Nonhuman Animals and the Transformation of the Mughal Empire under Akbar."
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The issue then contains an article by Ian Miller entitled "Between Land and Water: Fisheries Oversight in Early Modern China." brill.com/view/journal...

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📣 #CfP Reminder 📣

Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?

📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇

⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025

📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies

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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:

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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!

#EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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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

#Earlymodern

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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
#Earlymodern @czechacademy.bsky.social

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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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#earlymodern

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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...

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

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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

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