Dr. John Martin

Biography

John Jeffries Martin is a historian specializing in early modern Europe, with particular interests in social, cultural, and intellectual history in Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has authored several notable works, including Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City, which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association, Myths of Renaissance Individualism, and Beautiful Ending: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Making of the Modern World. Since 2008, he has served as a Professor of History at Duke University, where he continues to contribute to the field through his research and teachings. Martin's work often explores the complexities of political freedom and social harmony within early modern Venice, examining its role as a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression.

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