REFORC Book Award 2025, Call for Submissions

• The content of the book is related to Early Modern Christianity (1400-1700).
• Publications are written in English, French, or German.
• Books are written by a single author and are published in 2024.

Criteria for Selection

• Originality of topic and research.
• Methodological and literary quality.
• Presentation of new insights.
• Academic and social relevance.

Application

Publishers or authors are invited to send three hard copies of the book to the President of the Board of REFORC: Prof. Dr. Herman J. Selderhuis, Landauer 2, 8061 LS Hasselt, the Netherlands. To be eligible for assessment, the books must be on the above mentioned address on or before March 1, 2025.

All submitted books will be presented on REFORC’s website and social media.

Decision

The Board of REFORC decides on the prize-winning book. The decision is based on the evaluation of a committee of three REFORC board members and is final.

Prize REFORC Book Award 2025

The author of the selected book will receive € 1000,00 and a certificate.

Winner Announcement REFORC Book Award 2025

At the Fourteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, May 22-24, 2025 in Vienna.

Previous Winners

2024: Kilian Schindler, Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama
2023: Nataliia Sinkevych, The Religiosæ Kijovienses Cryptæ by Johannes Herbinius (1675): A Description of Kyiv and Its “Sacral Space” in Early Modern Multiconfessional Discourse
2022: Martin Christ, Biographies of a Reformation. Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520-1635
2021: Els Agten, The Catholic Church and the Dutch Bible. From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy (1564–1733)
2020: Paolo Astorri, Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)
2019: Liesbeth Corens, Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe
2018: Chiara Bertoglio, Reforming Music. Music and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century