Early Modern Newsletter #7 January 2025

Early Modern Newsletter #7, January 2025

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Recent publications

Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy: 'Preliminary Discourse' and 'On The Socratic School'.

Includes the first-ever English translation of two chapters from his Historia (1766-1767)-'Preliminary Discourse' and 'On the Socratic School'
Also contains a list of Latin-English terms

Brian Vickers,Thomas Kyd: A Dramatist Restored.

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatist.

Ian McCormick, Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era.

A resource for educators, performers, and scholars who wish to grapple with Shakespeare’s contested legacy and explore innovative approaches to his works in an era of political struggle and social transformation.

Bernard Huss (editor),Petrarchism: Competing Models for Early Modern Community Building (1400-1700).

Philosophy Documentation Centre, Journal of Early Modern Studies (Autumn, 2024).

Forthcoming publications

Patricia Anne Simpson, Early Modern Women’s Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice.

Simpson examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe.

Josie Schoel, Race and Beauty: Early Modern Cosmetics and the Mythology of Whiteness.

This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of "fairness," contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England.

Marta Albalá Pelegrín, Edward McLean Test (editors), The Lieutenant Nun: Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso.

This volume contains the English translation of the seventeenth-century literary and archival materials about a Basque person who died under the name Antonio de Erauso (b. ~1580, d. 1650), bringing readers closer to an individual who could be considered as a trans ancestor.

Claire McNulty, Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560–1660.

· Experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs, arguing that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as age, gender, marital status, and social rank.

Cinzia Recca and Francisco Precioso Izquierdo (editors), Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe.

· A new look at early modern Catholic Europe through the lens of the diverse experiences of elite women, using a historiographical approach to analyze women’s roles through changing political, social, and cultural contexts.

DDijana Omeragić Apostolski and Aaron White (editors), Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness: Power by Design

Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period.

Calls for papers

Conferences:

Keynote Speaker: Prof Christopher Marsh (Belfast)

University of Birmingham

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Deadline for abstracts: 3 April 2025.

The Sensorial Lives of the Nonhuman in Medieval and Early Modern English Literatures (1300-1700)

International Conference at the Universities of Bern and Zurich, Switzerland

09‒11 September 2025

Deadline for abstracts of 250 words and a short bio note: 1 March 2025

Call for Papers - Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 (05‒06 June 2025; hybrid event)

Religious, political, bodily, economic, legal, and institutional corruption/scandal

Send abstracts, of c. 250 words, and a brief bio by 10th March

Publications:

Shakespeare: New Voices

A forthcoming publication edited by Dr Ian McCormick

Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025

Huntington Library Quarterly

HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds. The journal is currently inviting article submissions that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for publication in December 2025.

Roundtable discussion

Early Modern Iberian Worlds

Zoom event, led by Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford).

Podcast

Early modern philosophy.

Three series, with hundreds of episodes, starting this month.

Miscellaneous

Folger Black Arts Fest (Friday February 21, 7 p.m.)

An evening of cabaret style performances and music in the beautiful Folger Reading Room featuring several DC artists and entertainers, including rapper and producer Nomad the Native, R&B and soul singer and songwriter Bryan Lee, R&B and soul artist Abigail Furr, opera singer Millicent Scarlett, pianist Dana Scott, cellist Johnny Walker, and jazz vocalist Jeanette Berry.

Will of the Month: A Berkshire Gentleman and his object histories

The will of William Denton of Chiveley, Berkshire, proved in June 1604, containing over 50 bequests.

Islam in English texts

So thrilled to have been asked by ACMRS to talk about early modern representations of Islam in English texts.

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— Ambereen Dadabhoy (@drdadabhoy.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM

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