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American academic (born 1951)

John Jeffries Martin is a historian of early modern Europe, with a special interest in the histories of religion and society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Early life

John Jeffries Martin grew up on St. Simons Island, Georgia and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.^[1] He earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1982.^[1]

Career

Martin is professor and former chair of History at Duke University .^[1] He also served as chair of History at Trinity University where he taught from 1982 to 2007.

Martin's publications have explored the histories of sixteenth-century Venice, the invention of sincerity, Renaissance individualism, and early modern apocalypticism. He is, in addition, the editor or co-editor of four volumes. In Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City, Martin writes about the European Protestants who moved to Venice a