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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
 
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CALL FOR PAPERS: VOL. 16 - 2027
Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani

Diplomatic documents – letters, dispatches, and final ambassadorial reports – have long been among the richest sources for studying political culture and communication in early modern Europe. Produced at the intersection between information, negotiation, and representation, these texts illuminate both the mechanisms of statecraft and the wider processes through which knowledge about events, persons, and policies was produced, transmitted, and received across linguistic, confessional, and political frontiers. From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, diplomatic networks became crucial conduits for the exchange of political intelligence and news, linking courts and chancelleries to transnational communities of readers and informants.....  Read More  PDF

Current IssueVol 14 (2025): The Politics of Book History: Then and Now

Published July 1, 2025

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Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial
Georgina Wilson, Zachary Lesser
7-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16515

Articles

Facsimiles and Transcription: EEBO-TCP and Narratives of Textual Production
Margaret C. Maurer
17-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16516
Digital Bibliography in the Age of Linked Data
Kate Ozment
33-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16517
Confusion and Concern: The Troubled Histories of Named Collections Within the British Library
Alice Wickenden
51-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16518
Scottish Hands and Anglo-Centrism: The Politics of Canon-Formation and the Dalhousie Manuscripts
Sarah J. Sprouse, Sarah Banschbach Valles
71-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16519
Book Supports: Disability, Race, and the Labor of Accommodation in Milton’s Poetical Works (1855)
Taylor Hare
91-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16520
How Much Does a First Folio Cost and How Much is That?
Emma Smith
105-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16521
Indexing Herbert’s Temple
Tom Clayton
121-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16522
Dedicating Science and War Books: Networks of Power Between Science and Politics in the Early Modern Period
Consuelo Gómez
141-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16523
Humphrey Moseley and the Politics of Early Modern Publishers
Justin Kuhn
163-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16524
Rewriting American Identity: The Eighteenth-Century Americanizations of George Fisher’s Instructor and Sarah Trimmer’s Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature
Jessica C. Linker
179-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16525
White Christmas Pie, ‘smooth as monumental alabaster’: The Past and Future Politics of Shakespearean Cookbooks
Breanne Weber
197-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16526
The Queer Lives of The Life of H.H. (1822, 1688, 1650-1651)
Michael Durrant
213-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16527
Contributors
239-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/jems-2279-7149-16528
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