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Teaching Fellow- Global Medieval History at University of Leeds An 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.

Teaching Fellow in Global (and they mean it) Medieval History at Leeds www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP726/t...

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

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!!

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

postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, volume 15, issue 4

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?

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...

New article: 'The Counter-Arthurian Piracy of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail'
doi.org/10.1057/s412...

anyone who has worked with Shazia won’t find it hard to see why she received these prizes and will agree that they are richly deserved. we are beyond happy to see that her brilliant work for the journal has been recognized by our community! 🎉🥳 @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, @yorkmedieval.bsky.social

detail of enea silvio piccolomini crowned poet laureate by Frederick III from pinturicchio's frescos at liberia piccolomini, siena, ca. 1502–1507

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

Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...

Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish

That’s great. But it’s a pity that non-binary folk from outside the USA won’t feel safe enough to cross the border to attend it.

check out this terrific cfp! 👇

Still time to put an abstract in for this awesome conference on medieval gender

🗃️ #MedievalSky #Skystorians

postmedieval journal - call for participants call for participants postmedieval mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English

accepted abstracts will be paired with a peer reviewer who will assist authors to structure, draft, and revise their ideas, language, and arguments before the article goes out for review and is considered for publication in our journal

more info here: sites.google.com/view/postmed...

we'll need from you:
- an abstract and outline structure of your proposed article
- a bibliography
- your CV

are you a medievalist and a non-native english speaker looking to publish your first article in english? do you have an idea for an article in any field of premodern studies? you have until the end of march to apply to our mentorship programme 👇

Call for participants for a mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English

/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...

‘Wanting of hir wille’: Arendtian sovereignty and plurality in The Knight’s Tale - postmedieval The Knight’s Tale presents patriarchal sovereignty in the figure of Theseus, who exercises his power through the capacities of homo faber (man the tool user and craftsman). This fashioned political re...

have a look at our latest article: Peter Cibula reads chaucer's /knight's tale/ through hannah arendt's work on /homo faber/. the article suggests that the tale contrasts the limits of theseus' sovereignty with emelye's non-sovereign and plural actions 👇

I'll be presenting a condensed version of this at the Unlocking the Exeter Book conference at Oxford in April: www.english.ox.ac.uk/unlocking-ex...

can't wait to see this out in our next issue!!

Heritagizing Margery Kempe on the Camino Inglés - postmedieval Margery Kempe is the only fifteenth-century English woman who left an account of her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. She is constructed as an intangible heritage resource on the route she follow...

in our latest article, Denise Filios studies heritage items that commemorate margery kempe's pilgrimage to santiago de compostela, focusing on the representation of kempe's racial and religious identity and how the medieval past interacts with today's diverse population of walkers

read the article👇

Elsewheres of worldmaking: On the possibilities of personification in the Progymnasmata of Nikephoros Basilakes (12th c.) - postmedieval This article explores how reading the twelfth-century text of Nikephoros Basilakes’ Progymnasmata in dialogue with the notion of worldmaking prompts a new, more capacious understanding of the transfor...

in a recent article in /postmedieval/, Nicolò Sassi discusses nikephoros basilakes’s rhetorical exercises and how the use of personification allows a writer to challenge and expand their worldview

read the article here 👇

Excited to be launching this initiative with @postmedieval.bsky.social - please share widely. Any scholars working in premodern studies (broadly defined) who haven't yet published in English (and whose first language is not English) are welcome to apply

Call for participants for a mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English

/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...

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

inside you'll find:

guest editor Hany Rashwan brings together ten articles on multilingualism and transnational exchanges that go ‘beyond arabic’, foregrounding the linguistic, literary, and cultural diversity of premodern islamic societies, and challenging a homogenous conceptualization of premodern islamic worlds

postmedieval issue 15.3 cover

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...

Lavezzo "rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland" + argues "that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations"

'Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall' - Kathy Lavezzo.
Rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship & fiction in light of his rejection of Stuart Hall. Argues that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...

I loved working on and indeed reworking this piece with @postmedieval.bsky.social, which remains the best venue for creative, risk-taking scholarship in contemporary medieval studies.

soon out in /postmedieval/! keep an eye out for James Paz's creative and critical translations!

an excerpt from the final paragraph of the article published at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00355-w

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