Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷

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!

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

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?

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

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

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

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 👇

/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 👇

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!!

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👇

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 👇

/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...

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...

'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!

we published a new article by Maia Béar which unpacks the link between percy mackaye's medievalism and the twentieth-century american eugenics movement read the article here 👇 #medievalsky

In honour of Notre Dame’s grand reopening: check out Andrew B.R. Elliott’s superb essay on ‘forging the medieval’ at Notre Dame: “A hypothesis of the Middle Ages”. In @postmedieval.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I've had a go at putting together a Medievalism starter pack - if you'd like to be added (or removed!), please do let me know :)

head over to our website for our newest article: Susan McDonough and Michelle Armstrong-Partida re-evaluate several case-studies of trans lives, exploring the connections between transing gender, mobility, and premodern mediterranean communities 👇

in our latest article, Hannah Victoria analyses the sensory and sensual language of hildegard von bingen and of mechthild von magdeburg, exploring the two mystics' erotic, 'lesbian' engagement with a feminised god read Hannah's work here 👇

have you read our latest issue yet? it's now free-to-view until the end of november! check out some fantastic research on forgeries, the womb, race, migration and bob dylan!!

read our latest article at /postmedieval/, where @dalisera.bsky.social takes us into the cave of the old english legend of the seven sleepers, exploring real-life caves in medieval britain, their materiality, and relevance to the text's doctrinal message 👇

we have a new article out at /postmedieval/! read Paroma Chatterjee's 'The erotic kiss in ancient and Byzantine novels' 👇

two weeks ago we released a new issue of /postmedieval/ and we thought we'd show off our stunning cover here too! 😎 👇 have a look inside 👇 link.springer.com/journal/4128... (or get in touch with us if you don't have institutional access)

aaand it's open access, so read it now!!!

Postmedieval is at @kzooicms.bsky.social !