John Martin

Title

Professor

Institution

Duke University

Current Research

torture and the history of law in early modern Italy
ideas of hope and the future in early modern Europe

Recent Publications

A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022).
“Montaigne’s Elusive Self” in Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe, eds. James R. Farr and Guido Ruggiero (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 19-38.
“The Spiritual Globe,” New Global Studies 16 (2022): 175-192

Forthcoming Publications

"The Art of Conjecture: A Window onto the Heart," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024).