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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.
              
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           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? 
          
                
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             a BIG THANK YOU to the members of our editorial board who volunteered to be mentors, to the applicants who shared their work with us, and to everyone who circulated the cfp stay tuned for updates about the mentees' work and for the next iterations of the scheme!! 
          
                
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             it was so great to see our mentees and mentors together—we are really excited to work with five wonderful scholars who are publishing in English for the first time and to support them as they develop their articles for publication 
          
                
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             today we held an orientation meeting for /postmedieval/'s mentorship programme for EFL scholars! 
           /postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English 👇 find all the details here 👇  https://t.co/d6aqnfIItw 
            
            
                
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             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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             the ceiling featured on the cover can now be seen at @vam_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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             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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             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! 🎉🥳 
          
                
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             thrilled to announce that our former co-editor-in-chief Shazia Jagot won two awards from Springer Nature for her 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 
          
                
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             Opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position as part of the ECOMEDS project at King's College London working with Arabic and Hebrew sources. The deadline for applications is 1 June 2025. See further details here: 
          
                
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             Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval):  https://t.co/XYS5j2lh7P 
            #medievaltwitter #oldenglish
          
          
            
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              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...
            
                
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             I’m pleased announced the launch of a new Brill journal Taḥqīq: Journal of Islamic Thought and History. Sajjad Rizvi (@mullasadra) and I will be the editors in chief. The journal will publish in English but will also accept few articles in Arabic. More details to follow. 
          
                
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             Reminder that you have until the end of the month [April 30] to apply to the Spring 2026 symposium I'm organizing at @UCLA: Odious Comparisons, Across and Beyond the Early Global World. #medievaltwitter Read the full CFP HERE [  https://t.co/t1QdnqqWBQ]. 
          
          
                
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             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: 
          
            
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              call for participants postmedieval mentorship programme for scholars who have not yet published in English
            
                
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             we'll need from you: - an abstract and outline structure of your proposed article - a bibliography - your CV 
          
                
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             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 👇  https://t.co/d6aqnfIItw 
            
            
                
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             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 👉 
          
            
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              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)....
            
                
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             Check out @MedievalistsOC’s Hidden Curriculum Workshops happening next month! Register here:  https://t.co/LNHnzhaO1x 
          
          
                
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             NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Late medieval Southeast Europe between Latin Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Ottoman Islam (Hagen: Hagen University Press, 2025) 
          
                
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             in our latest article, Denise Filios studies heritage items that commemorate margery kempe's pilgrimage to santiago, focusing on kempe's racial and religious identity and on how the medieval past interacts with today's diverse population of walkers 👉 
          
            
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              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...
            
                
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