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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 · 09/09/2026
one week to put the final touches on your proposals for special issues & essay clusters!! send us your ideas: tinyurl.com/postmedieval...
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
and 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...
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Evan Nicoll-Johnson @evnj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Agreed! 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...
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postmedieval journal - call for special issues 2026
Call for special issue proposals
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
start 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
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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 · 03/09/2026
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
still 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
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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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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The call for episode proposals for season 6 of the podcast is live! #medievalsky
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
thank you, @lynnbutzlaff.bsky.social for such a great article!!
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Lynn Butzlaff @lynnbutzlaff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Barkman is here! Thank you @postmedieval.bsky.social for such a great experience publishing my first article. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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‘I am the Barkman, and I am good at nothing’: Anthro-arboreal hybridity and vegetal politics in Q̄rvar-Odds saga - postmedieval
This 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...
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
thank you, @liamh2os.bsky.social and @basilaprice.bsky.social for publishing with us such great pieces!!
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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One of the most fun writing experiences in recent memory. Thank you @liamh2os.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social !
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
full details here: sites.google.com/view/postmed... share with colleagues and networks!!
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Call for special issue proposals
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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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Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very honored that our article on hammocks won this award from the RSA!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
congratulations 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
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
in 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
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the @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!!
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Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When 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...
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François·e Charmaille @fcharmaille.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'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.
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
with our thanks to @onetricksyboy.bsky.social and @fcharmaille.bsky.social for publishing their work with us!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
explore the issue here: link.springer.com/.../41280/vo...
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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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Courtney Naum Scuro @drcourt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I 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)!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the 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:
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postmedieval is a journal focusing on the premodernity and its ongoing reverberations.Publishes four times a year with some issues being themed and ...
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
guest 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
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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
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
all this AND ALSO some creative-critical translations of old english poetry by @jamespaz.bsky.social!!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
the issue is #openaccess for the next two weeks—read it here: link.springer.com/journal/4128...
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postmedieval is a journal focusing on the premodernity and its ongoing reverberations.Publishes four times a year with some issues being themed and ...
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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
and, if lacma a is closer to you, make sure you check out Sandra S. Williams' article on the spanish wooden ceilings there: rdcu.be/fjmst
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The itinerant lives of two ceilings from Spain
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
if 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...
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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
very cool Terms of art indeed!! 😎 thank you for sending it to the journal! 🥰
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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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Max 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 #HistMed
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MPIWG 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…
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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very excited to be correcting proofs, for the very cool Terms d'Art that I co-wrote @liamh2os.bsky.social for @postmedieval.bsky.social.
Screenshot of the e-proofing interface for an article.
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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I'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...
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Matt Lampitt @mattlampitt.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Very 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...
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Earthbound with Béroul’s Tristan - postmedieval
This 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 ...
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I 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...
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How to enjoy a posset - postmedieval
Where 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...
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TOEBI @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...
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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷
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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Really 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!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Thank you so much for being there, Ying!!
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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Teaching Fellow in Global (and they mean it) Medieval History at Leeds www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP726/t...
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Teaching Fellow- Global Medieval History at University of Leeds
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
in 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
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
the 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!!
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
as 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
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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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Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
New article: 'The Counter-Arthurian Piracy of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail' doi.org/10.1057/s412...
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The counter-Arthurian piracy of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail - postmedieval
This 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...
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