Medieval History Journals
Frauke Vilandre
Some scholars have created a Google Sheet for medieval studies journals. This site lists over 100 journals, with information on submission, article length, journal type, issues per year and so on. Instructions for adding journals are provided in the sheet. For more information, contact the creator Eileen Morgan on Twitter at @emwmorgan.
Nottingham Medieval Studies was first issued in 1957 and published its fiftieth volume in 2006. It was and remains an interdisciplinary journal for studies of European history and literature from Late Antiquity through to the Reformation. The journal also features articles in related fields such as archaeology, art history, linguistics, musicology and philosophy. Nottingham Medieval Studies is published as a single annual volume.
NMS welcomes submissions dealing with all aspects of the Middle Ages, from the late antique period to the Reformation. The main language of the journal is English, but work in French or German can also be accepted. Papers can be of any length between 4000 and 15000 words, inclusive of references, though occasionally longer pieces can be considered; papers consisting of or including editions of short texts are welcomed. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. In preparing manuscripts for review, authors should avoid revealing their identity within their essays and should follow the Author Guidelines available on this webpage (or upon request from the editors or publishing manager). NMS also publishes book reviews.
Submissions
Submissions should be sent to
Dr Matthew Hefferan (matthew....@nottingham.ac.uk)
Dr Natasha Hodgson (natasha...@ntu.ac.uk)
Dr Mike Jones (mike.rod...@nottingham.ac.uk).
Peer Review Procedure
Each article is read double-blind by at least one, but normally by two external specialists chosen by the editors; in choosing readers the editors take the advice of members of the editorial board as appropriate. Articles may be read by members of the editorial board as well as by external specialists.
Guidelines for Authors
The stylesheet for authors can be found at: -short-refs
Licencing & Copyright
This journal offers different licence options. A standard licence gives Brepols the exclusive copyright for all published content. Gold Open Access articles will be published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 Licence. For these articles the copyright remains with the authors. Please discuss with your Publishing Manager if you or your funding body require an alternative CC-licence.
Open Access Options
When you opt for publishing in Gold Open Access, we charge an APC of 1250 EUR (+ VAT, if applicable), which is designed to cover the cost of our publishing services. This consists of dedicated editorial support; qualitative, rigorous peer review; manuscript editing and professional typesetting; high-quality printing and digital publishing on BrepolsOnline and other leading platforms; guaranteed permanent access; worldwide physical distribution and online dissemination; and worldwide specialized marketing and targeted commercial initiatives.
Researchers from low- and middle-income countries, early career scholars, independent researchers, and other authors who do not have the resources to pay the APC are invited to contact the editor-in-chief.
See our dedicated webpages for further details on our open access options at -access/journals, and our self-archiving policies at -access/self-archiving-policy.
Ethics, Malpractice and Authorship Statement
Archival
All articles are digitally archived in Portico
Leeds Medieval Studies welcomes submissions reflecting the full intellectual range of the interdisciplinary Institute for Medieval Studies, including history, art, literature, and language in the period c. 500--1500 CE, and the study of modern medievalisms. We are glad to continue our long-standing commitment, unusual in academic journals, to publishing editions and translations as well as essayistic articles. For more information on our editorial policy, see our first editorial note.
As a free-access publication, Leeds Medieval Studies neither requires authors to pay to publish, nor requires readers to pay for immediate online access, conforming to the Directory of Open Access Journals Seal for best practice. We do, however, encourage readers to subscribe to our reasonably priced hard-copy publications via our printers and distributors, Abramis Academic.
As well as publishing traditional articles and book reviews, Leeds Medieval Studies continues the commitment of Leeds Studies in English to publishing editions and translations, supporting the foundational work of scholars making primary texts available to wider audiences.
The usual language of publication is English and translations should normally be supplied for quotations in languages other than English, but we are open to discussing submissions in other languages. Please include an abstract and keywords with your submission.
Contributors are requested to follow the MHRA Style Guide, 3rd edn (London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2013). Where possible, contributors are encouraged to include the digital object identifiers or, where a complete free access text is available, stable URLs of materials cited (see Style Guide 11.2.11).
To subscribe to Leeds Medieval Studies, or to our monographs series, simply email the Secretary at l...@leeds.ac.uk. You'll be added to our list of subscribers and sent each issue when it comes out, with an invoice. Prices vary slightly from year to year but are usually around 30.
For precursor publications, see past publications (for free-access digital copies, and hard copies of Leeds Texts and Monographs volumes), our publishing partner Abramis Academic Publishing (for hard copies of Leeds Studies in English), and the Leeds Studies in English archives at Leeds University Library.
Leeds Studies in English and Kindred Languages was started in 1932 as an annual philological journal by Bruce Dickins, Alan S. C. Ross and R. M. Wilson, who were all teaching in the Department of English Language at the University of Leeds. There were six issues before the outbreak of war in 1939, but publication was then suspended. Numbers 7 and 8 were published as a combined volume in 1952, but it was not until 1967, under the editorship of A. C. Cawley and R. C. Alston, that regular annual publication was resumed, in a new series under the title Leeds Studies in English. Notwithstanding its name, the journal's focus has always been on the language and literature of medieval north-west Europe, particularly English, French, and Old Norse.
Though it originated in 1967, Leeds's Institute for Medieval Studies took its present form in 2003. Leeds Studies in English and the Bulletin of International Medieval Research merged in 2020 to consolidate the editorial work of Leeds medievalists and align it institutionally to the Institute for Medieval Studies. Both journals have always been published by scholars, for scholars, disseminating high-quality research at as low a cost as possible and keeping publication in-house. Leeds Medieval Studies, free-access online and low-cost in print, continues these traditions.
Nottingham Medieval Studies is one of the leading interdisciplinary journals for European history and literature from Late Antiquity through to the Reformation. The journal builds on its traditional areas of strength - the literature and history of Western Europe - with articles in related fields such as archaeology, art history, linguistics, musicology and philosophy, as well as reviews of recent publications by renowned experts in the field.
The co-editors are Dr Matthew Hefferan, Department of History, University of Nottingham, Dr Natasha Hodgson, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, and Dr Mike Jones, School of English, University of Nottingham.
The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is the primary index of articles in academic journals and collections of essays in medieval studies. Searches can be restricted to the IMB or run in both the IMF and the Bibliographie de civilisation medievale, which will retrieve entries for books. Both the IMB and the BCM are multilingual, but the Advanced search screen allows limitation by language.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a massive multidisciplinary archive of academic journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Searches can be made across multiple titles or limited to a single journal or selected journals. Note that this is primarily an archival database; it holds journals from their first issue up to the most recent 3 to 5 years, though in some cases, more recent issues are included.
Description: This sequence of brightly coloured miniatures from a magnificent 13th century French manuscript is among the best examples of leading French book illumination during the medieval period of Gothic style.
Welcome! This issue focuses on research that reexamines images and suggests new, exciting approaches to understanding complicated imagery and thought. Richard Leson grapples with how the iconography of the Coucy donjon tympanum and the Table of Homage has been obscured by imaginative renditions, later artistic flourishes, and local legends. Louise Martinez focuses on an exquisite sapphire ring whose inscription claims exceptional power to counteract poison by involving the 13th-14th-century understanding of concepts of natural power and disease. Eleanor Myerson introduces a new way to uncover now-lost pilgrim badges that once adorned manuscripts using UV light. This enhances our knowledge of personal devotional practice by using traces of now-absent imagery. This is followed by a short piece introducing the new and yet old world of Medieval Zines by Sarah Blick
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