🎉 We’re delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 IJMH Prize: Cameron Winter, for “The Fall of Hormuz" (early 17th Century).
📖 Freely accessible for 3 months — enjoy reading!
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📣 Don’t forget: applications for the 2026 IJMH Prize are open until 30 Sept 2026!
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We’re delighted that you’re interested in the book! Unfortunately, the publication date has been delayed; it’s now likely to be spring 2027.
Cover of "Paul Dolnstein and His Sketchbook: The Soldiering Experience of an Early Landsknecht, 1490–1505" edited by Danielle Mead Skjelver, Casper J. van Dijk, and Stefan Krause.
Text reading: "Dolnstein offers a unique idiosyncratic insight into the emergence and experiences of the famous mercenaries, the Landsknecht. Earlier scholarship on Landsknechts can be divided into three traditions: (1) the German, (2) the International, and (3) the Art Historical. The German school examines the Landsknecht as a novel military development and focuses on how the Landsknecht came to be, how they were organized and what military tactics they introduced. The International tradition is less extensive and is primarily concentrated on how Landsknechts were part of a larger military development. Art history examines the Landsknecht as a theme in sixteenth-century art and how they have been used as a symbol to signify death or despair. This volume will further aid the examination of the early Landsknecht (1490–1505) by bringing insights from all three traditions together, through the eyes of a single historical individual."
Coming soon to our Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture series: "Paul Dolnstein and His Sketchbook: The Soldiering Experience of an Early Landsknecht, 1490–1505," edited by Danielle Mead Skjelver, Casper J. van Dijk, and Stegan Krause!
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Weekend coming up and in the mood for drama (end of world!) and brain-teasing riddles? Try 'Muspilli'. Fragmentary, enigmatic, one of the most problematic Old High German works!
Enjoy puzzling over it with the first comprehensive lexical analysis:
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Cover of: "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell.
Text reading: This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight launches a multidimensional game with its late-fourteenth-century elite reader in its unique manuscript context, London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A X/2. The textual and visual games of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Cotton Nero manuscript allow a fourteenth-century English Christian aristocracy to align courtly gaming with heavenly goals, thereby justifying elite amusements.
Our next title focuses on games and game theory! "Gaming the Medieval English Text: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell is a fantastic addition to any library.
New this year: PBB (Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur) joins the list! 🎉
With 124 journals, DG2O is the largest Subscribe to Open program of any individual publisher in the world, thanks to the support of the global #library community.
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How did #medieval & #earlymodern people celebrate #LookUpAtTheSkyDay?💫 Hard to tell—their celestial observations are difficult to decode.
But “Writing the Heavens" explores exactly that!
Download it (open access!) & dive in under the stars! 🌠
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Cover des Buchs: "Romantische Thermodynamik" von Cornelia Zumbusch.
Zum Wochenstart eine Empfehlung: „Romantische Thermodynamik“ von Cornelia Zumbusch, die für ihre herausragende Forschung mit dem #Leibniz-Preis 2026 ausgezeichnet wurde.
Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch!🎉
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Die Druckfahnen für mein neues Buch sind da!
Im Juli/August erscheint der Katalog der magischen Literatur des Spätmittelalters. Band 1: Die lateinischen und deutschsprachigen Chiromantien @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Concepts of Humans and Nature in Historical Perspective (ed. Jochen Althoff, Alexander Pruß):
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Wild, Jagd und Zähmung (Julia Weitbrecht):
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The Annunciation in the Allegory of the Unicorn Hunt (Erfurt).
Book: "Concepts of Humans and Nature in Historical Perspective" by Jochen Althoff and Alexander Pruß.
Book: "Wild, Jagd und Zähmung" by Julia Weitbrecht.
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A day made for medievalists who know a lot about things that don’t—or no longer—exist: #UnicornDay 🦄
Our recommendations:
📍 visually: a visit to Erfurt Cathedral
📚 intellectually: our latest books
🏛 last but not least: stop by to visit us and our own unicorns in Berlin!
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📝🏆The IJMH awards an Early-Career Paper Prize for the best article in military history (antiquity to the present) by a graduate student or early-career scholar. The winner receives €500.
Deadline: 30 September 2026
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We are very excited to have @dgb-mem.bsky.social at the #IMC2026 Bookfair! 📖 🎊
Their stand is always filled with interesting works, so don't miss out 😁
Visit www.degruyterbrill.comfor more information.
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🔥 Announcing a bolder, shorter new name in academic publishing: De Grill.
After struggling for two years with the mouthful that is De Gruyter Brill, we've decided to adopt the more bite-sized "De Grill."
Stay tuned as we bring you more updates on our new brand identity!
And which book would you like to devour for #EdibleBookDay? 📚
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Very proud to announce that Tombs in Early Modern Rome by Jan de Jong is the winner of the 2026 Borghese Prize - this prestigious prize is awarded annually for the best book on Rome by a non-Italian author.
Congratulations, Jan de Jong!🎉
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Visual reading: Conversations marking Women's History Month
Photograph of the author at a reading. Text: New Blog Post! De Gruyter Conversations. Who Was Emilie du Chatelet? An Interview with Andrea Brill
Black-and-white image of Hannah Arendt. Text: New Blog Post! De Gruyter Conversations. Hannah Arendt in the 21st Century: An Interview With Roger Berkowitz
Paining of Katharina von Bora. Text: New Blog Post! De Gruyter Conversations. Written Out, Written Over: Women* in Church History
For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're reclaiming the contributions of thinkers such as Enlightenment philosopher Émilie du Châtelet, the forgotten women of German church history, and political theorist Hannah Arendt. 1/3
Cover of the book "Dante's emotions" by Giulia Bonaldi.
It’s World Theatre Day today, but there aren’t any great plays near you? Curl up in an armchair and spend the evening with Dante in Purgatory – the emotions are just as intense as in the theatre!
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Cover of the book "Medieval Bestiares", edited by Debra Higgs Strickland.
Cover of the book "Physiologus- und Bestiarienrezeption in Nordeuropa" by Sophie Fendel.
Today’s all about getting creative: it’s #Draw-an-Elephant Day! Of course, it’s not easy without instructions, so here are two options: either read a book about it or simply take inspiration from a medieval illustration:
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Photo of cobblestone street lined with pastel houses under a bright blue sky.
Pedestrian bridge over a flowing river with historic buildings and cloudy sky.
Blue university poster about manuscripts, materiality and healing, featuring a medieval illustration.”
Beautiful Bamberg! Excited to be giving a workshop on turning your thesis into a book for #StoryPharm doctoral students.
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Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now!
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Today we’re celebrating #BibliomaniaDay 📚
Take a glimpse at our shelves here at De Gruyter Brill in Berlin—brimming with books on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, thanks to you all!
Is there one of our books you haven’t been able to put down recently?
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☘️ #StPatricksDay and you can’t wait for a pub night? Impress everyone by explaining how the hagiography of St Patrick served to create a narrative of early Irish history and support the elites:
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Neu im #OpenAccess! 🥳
Wie viel rhetorischer Schmuck ist geistlicher Wahrheit angemessen? Julius Herr untersucht Amplificatio-Strategien in mittelalterlichen Heiligenlegenden:
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Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:
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#IDSJT26 Tag drei (der letzte😢): Noch einmal genießen wir das Zusammentreffen mit unseren (zukünftigen) Autor:innen, bevor wir unseren Stand abbauen und Mannheim verlassen. Ganz herzlichen Dank an die IDS für die inspirierenden Tage!
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Beide Bücher sind #OpenAccess!
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