postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026one week to put the final touches on your proposals for special issues & essay clusters!! send us your ideas: tinyurl.com/postmedieval... 043
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026and this is a good time to also share the seminar series 'Global theory: Premodern, otherwise,' run by our co-editor-in-chief Charlotte Eubanks! if you want to push the boundaries of literary theory and contribute to a global premodern theory survey, check out this cfp: tinyurl.com/globaltheory... 042
Reposted by postmedievalEvan Nicoll-Johnson @evnj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Agreed! But also want to hijack this post to highlight a very special exception, @postmedieval.bsky.social, a journal that has been doing a lot to push these boundaries. They also happen to be seeking proposals for special issues / essay clusters RIGHT NOW! sites.google.com/view/postmed...sites.google.compostmedieval journal - call for special issues 2026Call for special issue proposals 161
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026start with the beautiful jewel on the cover to discover cultural interactions between west, south, and east asia; read on for a variety of critical approaches to premodern texts spanning ecocriticism, critical Indigenous and critical race theory, experimental, and comparative readings 000
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026ready 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... 121
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026still thinking about proposing a special issue or essay cluster for /postmedieval/? there's still time! we're accepting proposals for guest-edited collections until 15 september. find the full #cfp on our website: sites.google.com/view/postmed... #MedievalStudies #PremodernStudies #CallForPapers 065
Reposted by postmedievalpostmedieval @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. 195
Reposted by postmedievalThe Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The call for episode proposals for season 6 of the podcast is live! #medievalsky 02216
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/08/2026thank you, @lynnbutzlaff.bsky.social for such a great article!! 010
Reposted by postmedievalLynn Butzlaff @lynnbutzlaff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Barkman is here! Thank you @postmedieval.bsky.social for such a great experience publishing my first article. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.com‘I am the Barkman, and I am good at nothing’: Anthro-arboreal hybridity and vegetal politics in Q̄rvar-Odds saga - postmedievalThis article offers a new framework for approaching anthro-arboreal hybridity in Ǫrvar-Odds saga (c. 1250–1300 CE) by suggesting that the Barkman’s arborescent transformation is an active, political c... 174
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 28/07/2026thank you, @liamh2os.bsky.social and @basilaprice.bsky.social for publishing with us such great pieces!! 031
Reposted by postmedievalDr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One of the most fun writing experiences in recent memory. Thank you @liamh2os.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social ! 186
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 27/07/2026full details here: sites.google.com/view/postmed... share with colleagues and networks!!sites.google.compostmedieval journal - call for special issues 2026Call for special issue proposals 012
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. 195
Reposted by postmedievalMarcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Very honored that our article on hammocks won this award from the RSA! 1185
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/07/2026congratulations to @marcynorton.bsky.social and John Kuhn, as well as Jennifer Jahner and Jessica Rosenberg, who guest edited the issue of /postmedieval/ in which the article appeared, and to all of this year’s winners! #renaissancestudies #environmentalhumanities 020
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/07/2026in their brilliant article, ‘Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world,’ @marcynorton.bsky.social and John Kuhn explore the hammock’s materiality, its social role within Indigenous communities, and its place in intercultural exchanges with colonial settlers 130
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/07/2026the @rsaorg.bsky.social has announced the recipients of its 2025 Renaissance Studies Article Prize on the theme of ‘Renaissance Ecologies,’ and we couldn’t be happier that an article published in /postmedieval/ won first prize!!link.springer.comTowards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedievalWhen Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h... 22711
Reposted by postmedievalFrançois·e Charmaille @fcharmaille.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I'm so happy that my piece about nonbeenary monks made it into this wonderful issue of postmedieval! Alongside some great pieces of ecotheory, gender theory, creative and imaginative figuration, links between Italy and Asia... This issue is a dazzling picture of boundary-pushing research. 053
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/06/2026with our thanks to @onetricksyboy.bsky.social and @fcharmaille.bsky.social for publishing their work with us! 021
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/06/2026explore the issue here: link.springer.com/.../41280/vo...link.springer.com 010
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/06/2026while 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! 141
Reposted by postmedievalCourtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I wrote a little thing about timekeeping anxieties in Henry VI, Part I! Available open-access for a limited time in postmedieval (along with lots of other cool pieces in this special edition)! 021
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026the issue is temporarily #openaccess, head over to our website to read contributions by @leonieboettiger.bsky.social (@mpiwg.bsky.social), @drcourt.bsky.social, @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, @georginaemw.bsky.social among others:link.springer.compostmedievalpostmedieval is a journal focusing on the premodernity and its ongoing reverberations.Publishes four times a year with some issues being themed and ... 0103
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026guest editors Jennifer Jahner and Jessica Rosenberg bring together 31 contributors to reflect on these themes across 22 dynamic pieces—research articles, interviews between academics and practitioners, and ‘skill-shares,’ short works of practical knowledge 131
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026technique—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 21610
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 19/05/2026all this AND ALSO some creative-critical translations of old english poetry by @jamespaz.bsky.social!! 031
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 19/05/2026the issue is #openaccess for the next two weeks—read it here: link.springer.com/journal/4128...link.springer.compostmedievalpostmedieval is a journal focusing on the premodernity and its ongoing reverberations.Publishes four times a year with some issues being themed and ... 022
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 19/05/2026how 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 173
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 18/05/2026and, if lacma a is closer to you, make sure you check out Sandra S. Williams' article on the spanish wooden ceilings there: rdcu.be/fjmstrdcu.beThe itinerant lives of two ceilings from Spain 010
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 18/05/2026if you cannot visit the ceiling in person, read about it and related spanish wooden ceilings in the /postmedieval/ essay cluster guest-edited by Anna McSweeney and Mariam Rosser-Owen: link.springer.com/journal/4128...link.springer.compostmedievalpostmedieval is a journal focusing on the premodernity and its ongoing reverberations.Publishes four times a year with some issues being themed and ... 100
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 18/05/2026for #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 163
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 11/05/2026very cool Terms of art indeed!! 😎 thank you for sending it to the journal! 🥰 010
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 11/05/2026our 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 02310
Reposted by postmedievalMax Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026#ResearchReels: 1 publication—3 minutes🏅 IMPRS researcher @leonieboettiger.bsky.social presents her article "'And let her use it': Women patients in early medieval Arabic gynecological recipes," published in the @postmedieval.bsky.social journal. 📃 🌱 🔗 youtu.be/NTcaoT0W4zY #HistSci #HistMedyoutu.beMPIWG Research Reels: Women Patients in Early Medieval Arabic Gynecological Recipes"The extent to which women engage with gynecological recipes depended in large part on their socio-economic class." IMPRS researcher Leonie Böttiger presents her recent work on female patients in… 1112
Reposted by postmedievalDr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Very excited to be correcting proofs, for the very cool Terms d'Art that I co-wrote @liamh2os.bsky.social for @postmedieval.bsky.social. 151
Reposted by postmedievalIman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I'm pleased to share that my review essay, 'Whiteness made visible: Recent Work in Premodern Critical Race Studies', has now been published in @postmedieval.bsky.social 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comWhiteness made visible: Recent work in Premodern Critical Race Studies - postmedievalpostmedieval - 1113
Reposted by postmedievalMatt Lampitt @mattlampitt.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Very excited to see that this is now out (and open access)! Thanks very much to all at @postmedieval.bsky.social doi.org/10.1057/s412...doi.orgEarthbound with Béroul’s Tristan - postmedievalThis article stages an encounter between the late-twelfth-century Tristan narrative attributed to ‘Béroul’ and Bruno Latour’s work on the Earthbound. Through a series of new close readings of two key ... 031
Reposted by postmedievalMarissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I had a lovely time writing about sometimes icky possets for Jessica Rosenberg & Jen Jahner's special issue of @postmedieval.bsky.social on technique! Open access essay published today: doi.org/10.1057/s412...doi.orgHow to enjoy a posset - postmedievalWhere does failure fit into embodied humanities research practices like cooking? This skill-share documents attempts to prepare (and enjoy) possets (hot medicinal beverages that usually include alcoho... 0102
Reposted by postmedievalTOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025📣 #medievalsky #openaccess #article #OldEnglish 📜Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry ✍️ @jamespaz.bsky.social 💻Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies @postmedieval.bsky.social 📲 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 072
Reposted by postmedievalThe Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷 02210
Reposted by postmedievalYing Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Really wonderful effort by @postmedieval.bsky.social editorial team. We had the first meeting today and it was productive! Sometimes we forget how important it is to support first-time authors. But we have all been there! 2105
Reposted by postmedievalKatherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Teaching Fellow in Global (and they mean it) Medieval History at Leeds www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP726/t...jobs.ac.ukTeaching Fellow- Global Medieval History at University of LeedsAn academic position as a Teaching Fellow- Global Medieval History is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities. 03027
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025in the issue you can also read five research articles and a dialogue on topics ranging from medievalism and eugenics, premodern trans* lives, caves, kisses and oral metaphors, as well as japanese calligraphy and disorder 000
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025the ceiling featured on the cover can now be seen at the V&A East; for their recent opening we made this issue of /postmedieval/ once again free to access. go to the link in our bio to read it!! 110
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025as you can see from our cover, the issue focuses on wooden spanish ceilings. Anna McSweeney and Mariam Rosser-Owen put together for us a terrific essay cluster of technical and art historical pieces that explore the structure, function, significance, and legacy of these ceilings 100
postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025while we are putting the finishing touches on our first issue of 2025, why don't you have another look at our 2024 winter issue? 192
Reposted by postmedievalDaniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025New article: 'The Counter-Arthurian Piracy of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail' doi.org/10.1057/s412...doi.orgThe counter-Arthurian piracy of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail - postmedievalThis Noted document brings to scholarly attention the existence of a 1969 pirate edition of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail. It explores archaising book production choices in the first, authorised edition of... 141