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postmedieval is an award-winning journal bringing medieval and modern into productive critical relation. For queries, postmedievalED (at) gmail (dot) com. linktr.ee/postmedieval

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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
thinking about what a global, nonmodern/premodern literary theory survey would look like? there's still a few days left to send in your proposal for the seminar series 'global theory: premodern, otherwise'! find the full #cfp on our website: tinyurl.com/globaltheory...
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ready to start a new academic year? at /postmedieval/ we have some readings for you: our spring issue is free-to-view until the end of september! link.springer.com/journal/4128...
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
/postmedieval/ is looking for special issue and essay cluster proposals. do you work in medieval studies—or a field that speaks to premodern cultures? we'd love to hear your ideas. if you're interested in guest-editing a collection for the journal, send us your proposal by 15 september.
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
while we are on the topic of our 2025 publications, take a look at our winter issue! what’s inside? pieces on idols and figuration, gender, ecocriticism, medievalisms, and whiteness on premodern and contemporary literatures spanning from west to east asia and from west to east europe!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
technique—technology—technê ‘Technique: Alternate histories of expertise and experiment’—our 2025 double special issue—explores modes of making and questions of functionality, ornamentation, craft, artificiality, skill
cover of postmedieval issue 16.2–3table of contents for postmedieval issue 16.2–3table of contents for postmedieval issue 16.2–3table of contents for postmedieval issue 16.2–3
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
how does medieval literature conceptualize moral and political systems? how do modern writers, printers, and heritage projects engage with the past? our spring 2025 issue explores these and other questions across persian, byzantine, old, middle, and modern english literature
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
for #internationalmuseumday, we are celebrating once again the Crafting Medieval Spain project—a remarkable collaboration between academics and museum professionals that enabled the close study of the torrijo ceiling at v&a east storehouse
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
our 2025 issues are free to access for the next month—head over to our website to explore 47 brilliant pieces! in the coming days, we'll be spotlighting key articles, ideas, and insights from across the issues. stay tuned!! linktr.ee/postmedieval
covers of postmedieval 2025 issues
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
while we are putting the finishing touches on our first issue of 2025, why don't you have another look at our 2024 winter issue?
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, volume 15, issue 4
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
thrilled to announce that our former co-editor-in-chief Shazia Jagot won two awards from Springer Nature for her outstanding editorial work for /postmedieval/: an Editorial Contribution Award, for her rigour in handling submissions, and an Author Service Award, for her commitment to our authors
detail of enea silvio piccolomini crowned poet laureate by Frederick III from pinturicchio's frescos at liberia piccolomini, siena, ca. 1502–1507
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...
Call for participants for a mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
inside you'll find:
Table of contents for postmedieval's issue 15.3:
- 'Multilingualism from the perspective of the medieval Islamic vision of language', Federico Salvaggio
- 'Multilingual poetics in Arabic and Persian Maqāmāt: Between al-taṣannu‘ and sabk', Alaaeldin Mahmoud
- 'Multilingual worlds in Ḥarīrī’s monolingual maqāmāt: A study of al-maqāma ar-Raqṭāʾ (the spotted)', Rama Alhabian
- 'Cases of divergence between Persian and Arabic poetics: An analysis of the underlying characteristics of particularly Persian stylistic techniques addressed by Vaṭvāṭ (d.1182)', Shahrouz Khanjari
- 'Arabic lore as an inspiration for medieval Provençal Jews: The curious case of Mishle ha-‘arav', David Torollo
- 'Love poetry as social practice: On the function of medieval Sicilian love lyric in Arabic and Italian', Nicola Carpentieri
- 'Beyond imitation: A case for the hermenutic agency of Persianate literary retellings', Aqsa Ijaz
- 'Portraying multilingualism in Ottoman literary culture: Qasidat al-burdah translations in ornamented manuscripts', Berat Açıl
- 'Multimedia, agency, and subjectivity: Rumi, ‘Aṭṭār, and Hegel’s Orientalist sublime', Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh
- 'Persianate Malabar: Muḥammad Shāh’s Takiyya and the composition of an Arabi-Malayalam Sufi romance-mathnawī in Southern India', Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam and Simi K. Salim
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
our fall issue, 'beyond arabic: multilingual poetics in premodern islamic worlds', is now free to view on /postmedieval/’s website, spread the word! 👉 link.springer.com/journal/4128...
postmedieval issue 15.3 cover
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
the article continues an ongoing conversation in the pages of /postmedieval/ and disentangles some of the connections between medievalisms and white supremacist ideologies, offering reflections for the field of medieval studies
an excerpt from the final paragraph of the article published at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00355-w
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
two weeks ago we released a new issue of /postmedieval/ and we thought we'd show off our stunning cover here too! 😎 👇 have a look inside 👇 link.springer.com/journal/4128... (or get in touch with us if you don't have institutional access)
Image of cover featuring MS Morgan C/1, Page-spread from Scrapbook 1, 225–26, University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections. Read more at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00326-1
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Postmedieval is at @kzooicms.bsky.social !
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