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At De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies, we publish scholarly books, journals, and electronic resources on the medieval and early modern world (5th–18th centuries). The History Publishing Unit at Brill publishes over a broad range of periods and themes in largely European history and culture, e.g. medieval, early modern and modern history and Slavic studies, intellectual history and th

e history of warfare. The History Publishing Unit currently publishes some 175 books and 25 journals, and a major primary sources list.

The first review of Frits Scholten’s new monograph on Adriaen de Vries is out. Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Senior Curator ...
06/11/2025

The first review of Frits Scholten’s new monograph on Adriaen de Vries is out. Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Senior Curator Emerita of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, calls it “a fundamental resource for all students of Adriaen de Vries and sculpture of the early baroque period.”

Read the full review here: https://pssauk.org/reviews/the-modeller-adriaen-de-vries-in-search-of-the-viva-figura.

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And which party are you going to on ?
31/10/2025

And which party are you going to on ?

30/10/2025

New Publication Alert 📚

We are pleased to announce a new entry in the Encyclopedia of Jesuit Translation Culture in Poland-Lithuania, 1564–1820 (Brill):

"Plautus" – exploring the reception and adaptation of the Roman playwright's comedies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the crucial role Jesuits played as cultural intermediaries.

This comprehensive entry traces how Plautus (c. 254–184 BCE) – celebrated for his vibrant theatrical energy, linguistic inventiveness, and cunning slave characters – was introduced to Poland-Lithuania through humanist curricula and Jesuit education.

Key findings include:

🎭 Early Translation: The 1597 Potrójny z Plauta by Piotr Ciekliński (a graduate of the Jesuit college in Jarosław) represents not only a milestone in Plautine reception but stands as the earliest known Polish comedy – a creative "reforging" that relocated the action from Athens to contemporary Lviv.

🎓 Jesuit Pedagogical Theater: Franciszek Bohomolec SJ and other Jesuit playwrights integrated Plautine elements into their moral-instructional comedies, employing the classical technique of contaminatio (blending multiple sources) – mirroring Plautus's own adaptive methods. Works like Bliźnięta, Myśliwy, and Przyjaciele stołowi demonstrate sustained engagement with Plautine dramatic traditions.

✨ Cultural Mediation: The entry illuminates how Jesuit-educated translators and authors served as essential intermediaries, adapting Roman comedy to serve the pedagogical framework of the Ratio studiorum while following Horace's principle of ridendo verum dicere – "to tell the truth with laughter."

This scholarship enriches our understanding of how classical literary traditions were transmitted, transformed, and localized within Jesuit educational networks across early modern Europe.

📖 Full entry available at: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EJTC/microfq073.xml

30/10/2025

OPEN ACCESS🏆
Frühmittelalterliche Studien, Volume 59 (2025) (De Gruyter, October 2025)

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/fmst/59/1/html

CONTENTS:

Von Sisebut zu Sisenand -- Gerd Kampers

Augustine vs Wodan -- Immo Warntjes

Mobility, Trade and Control at the Frontier Zones of the Carolingian Empire (8th–9th Centuries AD) -- Marco Franzoni

Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire -- Laury Sarti

What Did Comitatus Mean in the Ottonian-Salian Kingdom? -- David Bachrach

The ‘Traitor’ of Béziers -- Derek R. Benson

Die feinen Unterschiede zwischen einem Einsiedler und einem Apostel -- Marie Kemper

Serielle Notation -- Julia Bruch, Markus Jansen, Adrian Meyer

PREMODERN FORMS OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

When Can We Speak of Cultural Appropriation? -- Franziska Kleybolte

Designing the Divine -- Angelika Lohwasser

Instances of Cultural Appropriation in the Works of Paulus Alvarus and Eulogius of Córdoba -- Wolfram Drews

Unstable Races? -- Marcel Bubert

Appropriation, Creolization or Entanglement? -- Neta Bodner

“The Emir of the Catholics” -- Matthias Maser

All set for the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society, this year in Portland, OR.
30/10/2025

All set for the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society, this year in Portland, OR.

29/10/2025

📣New book series announced!📣 Co-Comissioning Editors Dustin M. Neighbors and Patrik Pastrnak have launched a new book series with the publisher De Gruyter-Brill 📚 The series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900: Experiences, Entanglements, Environments”, 👑 aims to publish novel and fresh, peer-reviewed, book length publications (edited volumes and monographs) that feature interdisciplinary and comparative research that explores any and all aspects of global courts 🌍 (of all variations), both as an evolving and kaleidoscopic concept, institution, environments and cultural stage, and as a lived experience. 🏰

The call for proposals is now officially open for edited volumes and monographs. 📝 For more information or to download the CfP, visit https://www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-b/html 📚

Please share widely. We look forward to hearing from interested contributors!

📢 Working on premodern education and literacy? Check out our for the new series “Confession and Literacy in the Pre-Mo...
28/10/2025

📢 Working on premodern education and literacy? Check out our for the new series “Confession and Literacy in the Pre-Modern Era”! The series highlights overlooked and newly discovered sources that challenge the image of an illiterate Europe before 1800. Scholars from a wide range of discipline, such as education, history, linguistics, literary studies, and theology, are invited to present new perspectives on pre-modern education.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/klv-b/html?lang=de&srsltid=AfmBOoo5dK6fVjal9F9nlLr_uZux8aViE9orx_s9gOMAqUOLpB2RO7ZI

I hardly started as a trainee in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies team at De Gruyter and I am already taking part i...
18/10/2025

I hardly started as a trainee in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies team at De Gruyter and I am already taking part in the amazing Frankfurt Book Fair. Surrounded by books and book lovers — what more could one ask for?

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