Sign in

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

@emwjournal.bsky.social
5.2K followers 1.3K following 58 posts

The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/c…

PostsRepliesMedia
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As always, we @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social @julieeckerle.bsky.social and @martinevanelk.bsky.social want to thank our authors, anonymous peer reviewers, and the editorial team at UCP for their hard work in making htis issue possible
050
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
These fascinating pieces are followed by a rich group of reviews on all kinds of topics, from needlework and female servants to an Indian princess and an English queen consort
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The other by Ali Erginsoy, on a Moroccan Jewish migrant www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The forum includes two articles on female mobility, one by Rosalind Beiler and Kailey Freeman-DePelisi on a Quaker and an Anabaptist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
121
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally, Cynthia Stollhans discusses concubinage at the papal courts www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
111
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feike Dietz and Nina Geerdink analyze paratexts in Dutch books for constructions of female authorship www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
120
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Laura Hutchingame explores the presence of the name Lucretia in Venetian lace pattern books of the 17th century www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our fall 2026 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women and mobility, an online edition review, an exhibition review, and 25 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/2026...
Cover of the journal with an engraving of a woman doing lacework
13019
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There's still time! The deadline is October 1. #earlymodern
01617
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Giving this cfp a boost: please consider submitting something. Our Forum feature is a great home for shorter pieces. #earlymodern
02226
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern
The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. 
At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.
Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. 
If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.
See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum
05551
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
As always, we--@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social, @julieeckerle.bsky.social, and @martinevanelk.bsky.social ---want to thank our contributors, anonymous peer reviews, and the editorial team at UCP for their hard work in making this issue possible
010
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In addition to our usual book reviews on all kinds of topics, we have exhibition reviews by Marsha Libina, @liekevdeinsen.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Sutton
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In the Conversations on Race, Mónica Díaz, Elisa Oh, and Natalie Miraval discuss the challenges and rewards of researching early modern women and race in the archives www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Finally, Amanda Wrenn Allen takes a revealing look at how English parliamentarians vilified Henrietta Maria to discredit Charles I www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Matilda Amundsen Bergström discusses a fascinating pamphlet on French fashion by the Swedish intellectual Janiçon www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Eonjoo Park adopts a fresh approach to Jane Anger by looking at her "Angry Style" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Shachar Livne explores Isabella Whitney's rich use of Chaucer www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
journals.uchicago.edu
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 2
14621
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Scott K Taylor @scottktaylor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
@dr-sprockets.bsky.social & Emily Colbert Cairns explore Zayas's writing about honor & limpieza de sangre in @emwjournal.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/s...
emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com
Spragins & Cairns, “Following the Blood Lines in María de Zayas’s ‘El traidor contra su sangre,'” EMW, Spring 2025
Elizabeth Spragins and Emily Colbert Cairns, “Following the Bloodlines in María de Zayas’s ‘El traidor contra su sangre,'” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 19.2 (2…
051
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I'm also here with fellow @emwjournal.bsky.social editors @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social and @julieeckerle.bsky.social!#RenSA26
051
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Headed to #RSA2026 tomorrow and will be repping @emwjournal.bsky.social Looking forward to chatting about all things #earlymodern, women, and gender.
1141
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
As always, we--@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social, @julieeckerle.bsky.social, and @martinevanelk.bsky.social--want to thank our contributors, anonymous peer reviews, and the editorial team at UCP for their hard work in making this issue possible
010
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
In addition to that, we have a review essay on Esther Inglis, a performance review of a play on Artemisia Gentileschi, reviews of an exhibit on the biblical Susanna in the Netherlands and early modern women and books at the Lambeth Palace Library in addition to many book reviews
151
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Finally, @laurajaynewright.bsky.social explores Anna Trapnel's visions of war www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Third, Aidyn Osgood takes a close look at the trial of a woman camp follower in 1611 Cologne www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
120
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
In the second Forum piece, @naomimca.bsky.social analyzes accounts of sexual violence in the 1641 Irish rebellion www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
130
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Our forum on women in wartime begins with a piece by Penelope Anderson on Margaret Cavendish's short romances Assaulted and Pursued Chastity and Love's Adventures www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
120
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
And finally Frans Ciappara explores the fascinating female lay religious community of the Bizocche in Malta www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Alejandra Ortiz Salamovich discusses Margaret Tyler's translation of a Spanish romance in the context of Tyler's reading practices www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Elspeth Currie explores the fascinating notebook of Anne Wentworth Watson, looking at evidence of her learning in Latin doi.org/10.1086/736846
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
journals.uchicago.edu
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1
Of all published articles, the following were the most read.
13919
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2026 / Volume 21.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Migrancy.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 21.1, we invite contributions on women’s experiences of migration and migrancy specifically (as opposed to other kinds of mobility) in the early modern world. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.

Submissions are due October 15, 2025 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed.

If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.

Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.

See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum. For additional queries, please contact the editors at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
0106
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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
22616
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October.  

We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. 

Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: 
Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare.
Martial identities, values and motivations.
Notions of gender, race, class and religion.
Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict.
The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war.
Popular allegiance in early modern conflict.
Maritime violence and naval warfare.
The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law.

Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.
17678
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Very excited about this event on the 25th!
161
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’m talking about nuns again! A pleasure to discuss my work on 16th & 17thC women religious in with @onthetudortrail.bsky.social recently. Listen here talkingtudors.podbean.com #nuntastic #catholichist #earlymodern #womeninhistory #tudorhistory
talkingtudors.podbean.com
Talking Tudors | Natalie Grueninger
A podcast for lovers of Tudor history.
0207
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I neglected to announce this #nuntastic text when it came out: Moran, S.J., "Women and Artistic Knowledge in the Family: Mechelen Beguinage Grand Mistress Clara Eugenia Brueghel." In Brueghel: The Family Reunion. Ed. Nadia Groeneveld-Baadj, WBooks, 2023. See independent.academia.edu/SarahJoanMoran
0146
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Caroline Fish @historyfishphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns
Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland.Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.
196
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I love Margaret Baker! And it was fun writing with @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social. #EarlyModern and just in for #WomensHistoryMonth...
0123
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Added you to the second one
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Yes, you were there from the start!
110
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Finally, everyone should read the conversation by Matthieu Chapman and @annawainwright.bsky.social on teaching race and early modern women www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
021
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Fourth, Elizabeth Spragins and Emily Colbert Cairns offer a compelling analysis of violence against women in María de Zayas's work www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
111
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Taylor Clement offers a powerful argument on Esther Inglis and copy culture www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
Tracing Women’s Copy Culture: Esther Inglis and the Octonaires | Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal: Vol 19, No 2
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Next, Jutta Sperling's rich essay discusses the lactating Venus in art www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
First up is Tanya Burman's fascinating article on Badshah Begum and women's agency in early modern India www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
journals.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
100
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today is publication day! Check out our new issue with four articles, a conversation on race, an exhibition review, and many book reviews #EarlyModern www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr...
journals.uchicago.edu
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 19, No 2
12813
Reposted by Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'm at RSA repping @emwjournal.bsky.social along w/co-editors @martinevanelk.bsky.social and @julieeckerle.bsky.social ! Chat with us if you have questions about the journal. And be sure to check out our display at the University of Chicago Press table at the book exhibit. We've got EMW swag!
185
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
And this one: go.bsky.app/F1pGKpL
082