Journal of Early Modern Christianity, Volume 12, Issue 2

23 February 2026

De Gruyter has released the newest issue of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity (Volume 12, Issue 2).

The issue contains a series of research articles and a special dossier on “Text, Textile and Theology”.

Research Articles

Paula Cardoso
Religious Women and Liturgy in a Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Codex: Gendering the Reception and Profession Ceremonies in the Dominican Convents 
Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck
Memory and the Cloister: Mapping the Architecture of Observant Franciscan Identity in Brescia, 1422–1610
Marco Giardini
La Babilonyke Meretrice Romaine: Roots and Character of Guillaume Postel’s AntiPapalism
Laura Truzzu
Translating Women’s Silence: Erasmus’ Translation and Paraphrase of 1Corinthians 14:34–35 
Andrii Pastushenko
Maritime Networks: Priests, Mariners, and Their Landing Places in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England 
Agustín Méndez
“The Precious Gifts of Faith, Repentance, and the Feare of God”: Court Confessions and Emotions in Old and New England Witch Trials (ca. 1560–1692) 
Maximillian J. Whelan
Pascal’s Wafer: The Concept of Piety in Blaise Pascal’s Theological Anthropology

Dossier: Text, Textile, and Theology 1

Meredith Hanna Noorda
Making the Bible a Fashion Accessory in Seventeenth-Century England: Materiality, Market, and the Present-Tense Protestantism of Embroidered Book Covers 
Ragnhild M. Bø and Elisabeth Andersen
“And I Shall Give to Thee the Crown of Life”: The Utstein Antependium and the Visual Religious Culture in Early Modern Norway (ca. 1680–1700) 
Mireille Gilbert
Les ornements liturgiques des Carmes dans les anciens Pays-Bas du XVIIe siècle: un outil au service de leurs thèses 

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