De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies

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

15/10/2025

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.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783112210154/html

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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."

26/09/2025

Perfect for reading in the park on a sunny autumn day but also quite handy on the couch: our new paperbacks!

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110774962/html
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111326306/html
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110691009/html
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110781908/html

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

22/09/2025

Our editors are once again out and about at conferences. Meet Julia Schwanke, Henning Siekmann, Hana Ikenaga, Marcus Böhm and Robert Forke (left to right) who had the pleasure to attend the Germanistentag in Braunschweig last week.

29/08/2025

Congratulations to Frances Andrews on being awarded an MBE for services to Higher Education in the King’s Birthday Honours List!

Frances co-edits our series "The Medieval Mediterranean" where she brings her expertise and passion for medieval studies to the fore, “[…] researching a world so very unlike our own that we are encouraged to understand, perhaps to empathise with, those who are different to ourselves and, on reflection, to rethink who we ourselves are in new and more diverse ways.”

We are proud and grateful to work with you, Frances – kudos and well deserved!

If you want to find out more about the series, visit our website:
https://brill.com/display/serial/MMED

28/08/2025

Please allow me to introduce myself.

Out in hardback today: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/39586.

27/08/2025

At the turn of the 18th century, the regional slave trade in West Africa intensified.
Maria Inês Godinho Guarda's new study shows the role that Europeans, interwoven with endogenous trade networks and backed by coastal authorities, played in this process:

https://brill.com/display/title/54222

25/08/2025

25/08/2025

The contributions of American scholars to the study of European Gothic architecture are explored in this new book, considering how working from overseas presents both significant challengers and valuable perspectives!

https://brill.com/display/title/72359


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04/08/2025

"Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painters" by Isabella Lores-Chavez (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) presents the first comprehensive account of the impact of plaster casts on the artistic practice, intellectual endeavors, and social status of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. Marginalized in the history of Dutch art, plaster casts lie at the center of this study’s novel interpretations of paintings and drawings.

https://brill.com/display/title/71882