Call for Papers Merit, Worth, and Social Advancement in the Early Modern World: Rethinking Meritocracy as a Category of Historical Analysis University of Hamburg, 7–8 September 2026 Organised by Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg) and Asger Wienberg (Lund University) Conceptual Framework The term meritocracy is a modern one. Coined in the twentieth century and shaped by…