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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.

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?

Frankfurter Buchmesse

Moore Theological College in Sydney was pleased to host the Reformation Research Forum, featuring scholars such as Ashle...
07/10/2025

Moore Theological College in Sydney was pleased to host the Reformation Research Forum, featuring scholars such as Ashley Null (Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin), Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College), Stephen Tong (Sydney Grammar School), Mark Earngey and Mark Thompson (both from Moore College). Dr. Tong launched Dr. Earngey's John Ponet (1516-1556): Scholar, Bishop, Insurgent (Brill, 2025), and copies of the new book were presented to forum delegates David Clancey (Bishopdale Theological College, New Zealand) and Rachel Ciano (Sydney Missionary and Bible College, Australia). A great day and night of Reformation research was had by all!"

https://brill.com/display/title/64415

Photo 1: Mark Earngey and Rachel Ciano
Photo 2: Mark Earngey and David Clancey
Photo 3: Mark Earngey, Jake Griesel, Mark Thompson, Stephen Tong, Ashley Null (L-R)
Photo 4: Mark Earngey's paper: "The Reception of the 'Christianam Confessionem Anglicanam' in Reformation Zurich, 1553."

As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever!🌸🍂In this new illustrated book Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen appr...
23/09/2025

As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever!

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In this new illustrated book Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers, and image-makers!

https://brill.com/display/title/70483

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