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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
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Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1
Of all published articles, the following were the most read.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
emwjournal.bsky.social
Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2026 / Volume 21.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Migrancy. In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 21.1, we invite contributions on women’s experiences of migration and migrancy specifically (as opposed to other kinds of mobility) in the early modern world. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum. Submissions are due October 15, 2025 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu. Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about. See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum. For additional queries, please contact the editors at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
July 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
emwjournal.bsky.social
In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern
July 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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earlymodernwar.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.
July 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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martinevanelk.bsky.social
Very excited about this event on the 25th!
deborahhamer.bsky.social deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · Mar 31
If you're in NYC on Friday, April 5th, check out this fantastic program at Columbia, Early Modern Women on the Move with leading lights of the field including Merry Wiesner-Hanks, @martinevanelk.bsky.social, and @ninalamal.bsky.social. (and it's free): www.eventbrite.com/e/early-mode...
Early Modern Women on the Move:
Space, Materiality, and Transnationalism
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March 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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bamcshane.bsky.social
I’m talking about nuns again! A pleasure to discuss my work on 16th & 17thC women religious in with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social recently.

Listen here talkingtudors.podbean.com

#nuntastic #catholichist #earlymodern #womeninhistory #tudorhistory
March 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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lc-beguines.bsky.social
I neglected to announce this #nuntastic text when it came out:

Moran, S.J., "Women and Artistic Knowledge in the Family: Mechelen Beguinage Grand Mistress Clara Eugenia Brueghel." In Brueghel: The Family Reunion. Ed. Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj, WBooks, 2023.

See independent.academia.edu/SarahJoanMoran
March 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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historyfishphd.bsky.social
Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns
Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland. Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.
March 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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historybeagle.bsky.social
I love Margaret Baker! And it was fun writing with @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social. #EarlyModern and just in for #WomensHistoryMonth...
March 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
emwjournal.bsky.social
Today is publication day! Check out our new issue with four articles, a conversation on race, an exhibition review, and many book reviews #EarlyModern www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr...
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 19, No 2
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March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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lizlehfeldt.bsky.social
I'm at RSA repping @emwjournal.bsky.social along w/co-editors @martinevanelk.bsky.social and @julieeckerle.bsky.social ! Chat with us if you have questions about the journal. And be sure to check out our display at the University of Chicago Press table at the book exhibit. We've got EMW swag!
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
emwjournal.bsky.social
Since so many of us are at #RenSa25 it's a good time to give this a little boost: go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt
March 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
emwjournal.bsky.social
We are at #RenSA25! See the journal at the University of Chicago Press booth at the book exhibit and feel free to come up to us to talk about any projects you are working on
martinevanelk.bsky.social Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Mar 20
Thursday: 8:00 to 9:00 a.m, @julieeckerle.bsky.social @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social ky.social and myself will be at the
Meet-and-Greet with Journal Editors organized by SQ
📌 Liberty A, Sheraton 2F
March 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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martinevanelk.bsky.social
Happy to have arrived in Boston for #RenSA2025! Expecting to hear lots of great talks these next few days and participate in lively discussions on early modern women
March 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
Reminder in the new year: Call for Paper is open until 31 March 2025. #BookHistory #HerBook 💙📚
January 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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martinevanelk.bsky.social
Start your week off with this moving post by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on an early modern female owner of Donne's Poems https://buff.ly/4gK8Vkk #HerBook #EarlyModern @tarallyons.bsky.social @michelinewhite.bsky.social @memps2.bsky.social @erinannmcc.bsky.social
Poems, by J[ohn]. D[onne]., with Elegies on the Authors Death, 1639
Surprisingly, Early Modern Female Book Ownership has never before profiled a copy of John Donne’s oft reprinted Poems: With Elegies on the Authors Death, first published two years after the p…
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January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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profmurdoch.bsky.social
If you are interested in women immigrants simply go to the "Simple search" & type FEMALE

This should bring up over 400 records. Of these there are about 100 robust bios.

Read about some here: www.academia.edu/44219200/Ber...
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Bereft of all Human Help: Scottish Widows during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
This article traces the plight of the widows of Scottish soldiers who participated in the Thirty Years' War. Contrasting a number of strategies the women used in two main contrasting legal systems...
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December 28, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ : English Women Travellers to Europe, 1558-1630
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November 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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martinevanelk.bsky.social
Today on the blog: @huntingrebels.bsky.social takes a fascinating dive into the household accounts of Annas Keith, an early modern Scottish woman, to find out what books she owned https://buff.ly/3Z9Vum9 #HerBook #EarlyModern
Annas Keith’s Books: Reconstructing Book Ownership
By Jade Scott As demonstrated by the contributions to this blog, the most compelling evidence for women’s book ownership is a signature or inscription. Yet often we are left with frustratingly few …
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November 27, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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profmurdoch.bsky.social
Really excellent scholarship here by @jemmafield.bsky.social

Pass it on @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @emwjournal.bsky.social @earlymodhistory.bsky.social

#Skystorians #16thC #17thC 📚 🗃
November 26, 2024 at 11:24 AM
emwjournal.bsky.social
We began a second Starter Pack for people interested in early modern women. Let us know if you'd like to be added! #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/F1pGKpL
November 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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tarallyons.bsky.social
Lady Elizabeth Hastings’ library catalogue, books given to her nephew, George. It’s too late for my project on 17th c. women’s libraries but still fun to browse. (Huntington Library, Hastings Inventories, Box 2). #herbook #bookhistory #bibliography
November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Welcome to Bluesky, @julieeckerle.bsky.social! Give her a follow everyone
November 24, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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#EarlyModern
martinevanelk.bsky.social Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Nov 24
Giving the starter pack for people interested in early modern women another little boost. Lots of great scholars here! go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt
November 24, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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adamzucker.bsky.social
I have somehow made mistakes twice before as I've posted this list. Apologies, but here it is again... in its full and proper form.
adamzucker.bsky.social Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social · Nov 16
Contacts for the SAA Program Committee -
Wendy Hyman (our intrepid chair - whyman@oberlin.edu)
Adhaar Noor Desai
Sarah Dustagheer
Allison Deutermann
Bernadette Myers
Joseph Gamble
Noémie Ndiaye
Me
Feel free to DM here if easier.
November 16, 2024 at 7:04 PM