Longlist REFORC Book Award 2026

03 March 2026

We’re delighted to present the REFORC Book Award 2026 longlist!

Explore the impressive array of monographs published in 2025, showcasing fresh perspectives and rich scholarship across the diverse landscape of Early Modern studies.

The award winner will be announced during the Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity on May 20, 2026.

We thank all the authors and publishers for their submissions!

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece.
Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius
Richard Calis
Harvard University Press, 2025

The Multiplicity of Scripture.
The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
Theodor Dunkelgrün
Brepols, 2025

John Ponet (1516–1556). Scholar, Bishop, Insurgent
Mark Earngey
Brill, 2025

Small Books with a Mission: Prayer Books as Tools of Re-Catholicisation, c. 1540–1590
Fredrik Norberg-Schiefauer   
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, 2025

The Reformation of Prayer
Marie Jane Haemig
Oxford University Press, 2025

Die Orgeln am Deich. Mensch und Kultur im Marschland an der Nordsee
Konrad Küster
Schnell und Steiner Verlag, 2025

Performative Religious Reading in the Low Countries (c. 1470-1550)
Joanka van der Laan
Brepols, 2025

Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice
Marie-Louise Lillywhite
Cambridge University Press, 2025

Philosophical Justice and Reformation Righteousness: The Latin Aristotle to Luther and Melanchthon
Risto Saarinen
Oxford University Press, 2025

St Francis and Cultural Memory: The Franciscans and English National Identity from Chaucer to the Gothic Get access Arrow
David Salter
Oxford University Press, 2025

The Beauty of Belief. Decorating the Württemberg Church during the Reformation
Róisín Watson    
Brill, 2025

Bernardino Ochino’s Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation
Andrea Beth Wenz
Penn State University Press, 2025
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