02 November 2026
The search for the most outstanding scholarship in Early Modern Christianity is underway. Entries for the REFORC Book Award 2027 are now open, and we invite submissions of books published in 2026 that make a significant contribution to the field.
Publishers or authors are invited to send three hard copies of the book to:
Universität Osnabrück
Institut für Evangelische Theologie
Prof. Dr. Steffie Schmidt
Neuer Graben 29
D-49074 Osnabrück
To be eligible for assessment, the books must be on the above-mentioned address on or before February 1, 2027.
All submitted books will be presented on REFORC’s website and social media.
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.
The author of the selected book will receive € 1000,00 and a certificate.
At the Sixteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, June 7, 2027, in Zurich.
2026: Marie-Louise Lillywhite, Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice
2025: Pierrick Hildebrand, The Zurich Origins of Reformed Covenant Theology
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
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via email.
