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
Joined July 2024
Early Modern Women Journal is now on Twitter! Follow us for updates about the journal, announcements, news, and assorted tweets about early modern women
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Painted glass of a young woman with roses in her hand, c. 1650 - c. 1675. (Rijksmuseum) Broken but beautiful.
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#CFP Congreso ‘Mujeres y escrituras de comunidad en la España de la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI–XVIII)’. Organiza @Proyecto_Bieses 📆9-11 abril 2026 📍Edificio de Humanidades de la UNED en Madrid ✏️Envío de propuestas hasta el 5 de diciembre ℹ️Información: https://t.co/fAMyV56XyL
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The latest post on the EMFBO blog is about a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a find with real scholarly implications for the study of Philips https://t.co/8KGxFAQTi7
#HerBook @BettyBelphoebe
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Nothing about the title page of this somewhat tatty copy of Peter Hausted’s sermons immediately suggests that it was owned by a woman. The two inscriptions in play along the upper edge of the page …
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Today on the EMFBO blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars https://t.co/4P2xkI7Okc
#HerBook #EarlyModern
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It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…
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Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
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Hot off the press! The latest issue of Early Modern Women (20.1) is now available! It includes three articles, a Forum on Early Modern Women in Wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibit reviews, a collection of book reviews, and a new In Memoriam feature.
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With essays by Elspeth Currie, Alejandra Ortiz-Salamovich, and Frans Ciappara; a forum on war with contributions by Penelope Anderson, @McareaveyNaomi, @aidyn_osgood, and @laurajay_wright along with a review essay, a performance review, exhibition reviews and many book reviews!
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Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
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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
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Winner of the Best Article Prize for volume 18 of Early Modern Women, this article challenges the historical narrative of enclosure and reconstructs the lived realities of nuns. Find out more here: https://t.co/OXPzu8G1xN
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From Early Modern Women, this article examines the history of the V-shaped hand gesture on Venus's lactating breast in Paolo Veronese's "Mars and Venus United in Love." Learn about this gesture's role in lactation imagery here: https://t.co/JwLyOwMpLX
@SSEMWomenGender
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See my new blogpost "Esther Inglis and 'Little Beasts'" on relationship of her work with that of Flemish nature artists of the time, based on extraordinary new exhibition @ngadc
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@artherstory #ClaraPeeters #JorisHoefnagel #JanvanKessel
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Our CFP has been extended - there are just a handful of places left, so please get in touch if you'd like to be part of our seminar programme. We provide an especially good space for PhD students and early career researchers!
📢 Our call for papers is now live! Would you like to be part of our 2025-2026 seminar programme? We provide a friendly and supportive platform for academics and independent researchers, with Zoom sessions and in-person meetings at the Foundling Museum, London. /1 of 2
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The church of the Beguinage at Diest was built in the 1320s-1340s, to replace a chapel that had become too small for the growing community of Beguines. One of the only surviving elements of its original interior decoration is this exquisite marble Madonna (1344), now in the Met.
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Vandaag wordt in in New York gepresenteerd🗽 Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Past Achievements and Future Perspectives 💃 Edited by Nina Lamal, Lieke van Deinsen, and Feike Dietz 👏 Ook over #devotieprenten! 🥰 👉 https://t.co/5VNkMaoi3G
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