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26.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2Really 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!
08.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Thank you so much for being there, Ying!!
08.08.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Teaching Fellow in Global (and they mean it) Medieval History at Leeds www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNP726/t...
24.06.2025 07:03 — 👍 31 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 2in 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
23.06.2025 09:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the 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
23.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0postmedieval: 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?
23.06.2025 09:11 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0New 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
05.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0detail 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
05.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2Delighted 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
15.05.2025 07:33 — 👍 47 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 4That’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.
02.04.2025 21:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0check out this terrific cfp! 👇
02.04.2025 20:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Still time to put an abstract in for this awesome conference on medieval gender
🗃️ #MedievalSky #Skystorians
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 👇
21.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0Call 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...
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 👇
06.03.2025 14:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'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...
22.02.2025 12:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0can't wait to see this out in our next issue!!
21.02.2025 08:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1in 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👇
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 👇
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:
28.01.2025 09:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0guest 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
28.01.2025 09:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0postmedieval 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...