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.
John Jeffries Martin grew up on St. Simons Island, Georgia and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
Martin's publications have explored the histories of sixteenth-century Venice, the invention of sincerity, Renaissance individualism, and early modern apocalypticism.
"[2] His most recent book "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World," by contrast, places its emphasis on the role of faith—not only within Christianity but also within Judaism and in Islam—in animating individual and collective actions in the early modern world.
Indeed, faith did much to shape agency, and played a role in fostering new political, religious, and scientific visions of a more hopeful future.