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Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) is an open access peer-reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion on issues concerning all aspects of early modern European culture. It provides a platform for international scholarly debate through the publication of outstanding work over a wide disciplinary spectrum: literature, language, art, history, politics, sociology, religion and cultural studies. JEMS is open to a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations and encourages studies that develop understanding of the major problematic areas relating to the European Renaissance.





ISSN 2279-7149 (online)
Editors:
Donatella Pallotti, Università di Firenze, Italy
Paola Pugliatti, Università di Firenze, Italy
The Journal of Early Modern Studies is a Diamond Open Access Journal 
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CALL FOR PAPERS: VOL. 17 - 2028
Faith in a Material World. Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Natural Philosophy as Bodies of Knowledge
Edited by Susan Broomhall and Elizabeth Reid
Issue 17 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies interrogates how materiality and corporality informed the ontologies and epistemologies of faith and/or natural philosophy in medieval and early modern Europe.
It seeks to explore how early modern women and men created dialogic imaginaries and material expressions of faith and natural philosophy. It understands faith and natural philosophy as cultural bodies of knowledge, concerning the non-human and supernatural, that afford heteroglossic interventions by multiple contributors, who may or may not be in dialogue with each other. Read More PDF
Current IssueVol 15 (2026): Material Space and Literary Production in Early Modern Europe
Published April 7, 2026