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

we are 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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one week to put the final touches on your proposals for special issues & essay clusters!! send us your ideas: tinyurl.com/postmedievalcfp
we are 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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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/41…
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start with the 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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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/postme… #MedievalStudies #PremodernStudies
we are 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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we are 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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we are 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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in their article, ‘Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world,’ Marcy Norton 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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congratulations to @marcy_norton 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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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…
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with thanks to @FCharmaille for contributing an article!
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Dragons, aliens, and valkyries, oh my! Find all these and more in my newest article, available open-access with @postmedieval: "Towards an Anti-Colonial Vínland: Indigenous American and Medieval Norse Relations in Harold R. Johnson's Björkan Sagas." doi.org/10.1057/s41280-026-0…
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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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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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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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