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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies
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Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
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The first review of Frits Scholten’s new monograph on Adriaen de Vries is out. Holly Trusted, Senior Curator Emerita of Sculpture at the V&A, calls it “a fundamental resource for all students of Adriaen de Vries and early baroque sculpture.”
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November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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On the feast day of Leonard of Noblac, patron saint of horses (and much more), we recommend the following interdisciplinary book about horses and their significance in the Middle Ages:

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#medievalsky #animalstudies @mip-medpub.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Was haben mittelalterliche Menschen in tierischer Haut und das frühneuzeitliche „Lob des Knaster-Tobacks“ gemeinsam?
Beide gehören zu den #OA Transformationspaketen #Literaturwissenschaft von #DeGruyter:

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#earlymodernstudies #medievalsky
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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And which party are you going to on #Halloween?

#medievalsky
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Noch nicht bei #Duolingo, aber schon bei #DeGruyter: #altsächsisch!

Die erste umfassende Untersuchung der kulturellen Überlieferung des niederdeutschen Raums im Frühmittelalter, mit Fokus auf Bibeldichtungen und kleineren Texten.
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#Frühmittelalter #Unibamberg
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Today, something special happened: Members of the old and new editorial board of our edition of F. M. Klinger‘s Complete Works and our team met to inspect the edition‘s archive @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, representing 56 years of scholarship in a tiny room. To many more volumes and stay tuned!🥂
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The CfP in higher resolution:
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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📢 Working on premodern education and literacy? Check out our #CfP for the new series “Confession and Literacy in the Pre-Modern Era”, a forum for interdisciplinary research in education, history, linguistics, literary studies, and theology!

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#EarlyModern
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We love #Romanticism for bequeathing to us so many facets of #medievalism, texts, artworks, even spaces. One such evocative space is Berlin‘s peacock island with its faux ruins and beautifully designed park. #Pfaueninsel Do you work on medievalism and are looking for a publisher? Contact us!
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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For #OAWeek, we recommend this newly released study by Cordelia Heß. In her book, she studies encounters between Nordic Christians and Greenland's indigenous populations in the Middle Ages and how these encounters changed over time:
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#criticalracestudies
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The Frankfurter Buchmesse from the perspective of an excited trainee: meeting lots of books and lots of book lovers!
#Frankfurt #Buchmesse
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Wir feiern das Erscheinen des neuen Bandes der Reichstagsakten-Edition (Der Reichstag zu Augsburg 1518, bearb. v. Dietmar Heil) im Schaezler-Palais Augsburg: ein mehr als passender Rahmen!
Foto von zwei blauen leinengebundenen Bänden der Edition „Deutsche Reichstagsakten. Mittlere Reihe“, die auf einem Tisch stehen. Im Hintergrund eine rosa Wand mit Gemälden. Foto eines Referenten am Rednerpult Foto: durch eine Türe sieht man mehrere Räme des Schaezlerpalais; an den Wänden hängen Gemälde
October 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Immersing oneself in the life of a medieval village in Berlin? Seems unlikely, but is possible (we tried it!) at the museum village Düppel. #MuseumsdorfDüppel #medievalarchaeology #TeachingtheMiddleAges
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Vom stúblin bis zur Himmelfahrt: Die Arbeit von Max Alsmann in der Reihe „Literatur – Theorie – Geschichte“ beleuchtet das Erzählen von Raum in den Viten des Dominikanerinnenklosters Engelthal.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Perfect for reading in the park on a sunny autumn day but also quite handy on the couch: our new paperbacks!

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#medievalsky
Collage featuring a medieval manuscript illustration from the Stuttgart Psalter (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.bibl.fol.23, f. 19r) as background. The illustration shows a figure in a red cloak running with an outstretched hand, moving away from another hand reaching down from the sky. Four inserted paperback books are placed in the direction the figure is moving. On the left, “Wettkämpfe in Literaturen und Kulturen des Mittelalters. Riskante Formen und Praktiken zwischen Kreativität und Zerstörung“, edited by Bent Gebert with a blue cover. In the center, “Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding,” edited by Ondřej Škrabal , Leah Mascia , Ann Lauren Osthof, and Malena Ratzke, with a beige cover and olive green title field, next to “Gleiches zu Gleichem: Figurenähnlichkeit in der späthöfischen Epik. ‚Flore und Blanscheflur‘, ‚Engelhard‘, ‚Barlaam und Josaphat‘, ‚Wilhalm von Wenden‘” by Felix Urban, with an orange and beige cover. On the right, “Das Mittelmeer und die deutsche Literatur der Vormoderne: Transkulturelle Perspektiven,” edited by Falk Quenstedt, with a cover illustration from the Munich manuscript of the Younger Titurel (ca. 1270) showing a medieval Mediterranean scene with a ship carrying three figures, including richly dressed passengers holding a precious vessel, likely the Grail, with a cityscape in the background. The books stand before a pale gradient background. A black circular sticker in the top right corner reads “Now in Paperback.”
September 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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We 💛 it here & want to thank so many of you for following us!

To celebrate, we’re raffling of this wonderful book:
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Graphic with yellow text on dark blue background saying "1K followers Thank you!", "Enter our book raffle!", and "1000" inside a yellow heart. De Gruyter Brill logo in lower left corner. Image of the book “Medieval Art, Modern Politics,” edited by Brigitte Buettner and William J. Diebold, published by De Gruyter in the series “Sense, Matter, and Medium.” The dark green cover features sculpted stone heads from the Gallery of Kings of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, now preserved at the Musée de Cluny (image: Wikimedia Commons/Connie Ma, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic). The book is placed in front of a background with a dark blue to light green gradient. A dark blue circular label in the top right corner reads “Book Raffle”.
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever
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In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers!

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#EarlyModern
Book cover with a dark green floral patterned background. Title: “Everlasting Flowers between the Pages: The Making of Seventeenth-Century Florilegia” by Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, published by Brill in the series “Emergence of Natural History 9.” The cover illustration shows several varieties of red and pink anemones, taken from Franciscus de Geest’s Jardin de rares et curieux fleurs, second half of the seventeenth century (Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA).
September 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#Brandenburg a.d.H., just 20 min. away from Berlin, is a treasure trove full of medieval #Gothic landmarks. If you'd like to delve deeper into the intricacies of their architecture & its restoration, our
@dgb-arts.bsky.social
colleagues have wonderful publications in store (links in the thread).
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Ein gelungener Auftakt für den ersten Tag der Tagung der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft – ein Konzert des Rostocker Liederbuch-Ensembles inmitten der Parzival Wandbilder im Brixener Vinzentinum! #MedievalSky #Mediävistik
A small ensemble performs in a historic hall before a mural of historical figures (Parzival), with three musicians and Franz-Josef Holznagel giving historical background information at the front and an audience seated facing them.
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Nine Miedema, Mitherausgeberin unserer Reihe „Historische Dialogforschung“, eröffnet Tag 4 des #Germanistentag2025 mit einer Keynote zu Perspektiven genau dieses Forschungsfeldes. @uni-saarland.de @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Wo(zu) edieren? Über den Stand der Editorik 2025 diskutiert ein spannendes Podium auf dem #Germanistentag2025, darunter viele unserer Autor*innen. @doctoressa.bsky.social moderiert. @dhuniwien.bsky.social @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Unser Autor Dirk Werle @uniheidelberg.bsky.social spricht heute Morgen auf dem #Germanistentag2025 zur Frage, ob #Dialog und Aufklärung eine Wahlverwandtschaft verbindet. @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Nach regnerischem Beginn lässt sich auf dem #Germanistentag2025 zwischen den Sektionen auch die Sonne genießen. Pünktlich zum Sonnenuntergang findet heute noch der Verlagsabend mit Podiumsdiskussion statt. @dgb-mem.bsky.social diskutiert mit.
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Guten Morgen, #Braunschweig! Der #Germanistentag2025 geht schon mal gut los mit Unterbringung, die für Mediävist*innen nicht passender sein könnte.
September 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Please allow me to introduce myself.

Out in hardback:
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Cover of "A Companion to the Devil and Demons, c.1100–1750," edited by Kathryn A. Edwards. The central image shows a richly illuminated manuscript page from the "Breviari d'Amour" (British Library, Yates Thompson 31, f.44), produced in Catalonia in the late 14th century. It depicts the fall of the angels, various devilish temptations (lust, avarice, robbery, and wrath) and a ship beset by devilish creatures.
September 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM