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The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies publishes articles informed by historical inquiry and alert to issues raised by contemporary theoretical debate. The journal fosters rigorous investigation of historiographical representations of European and western Asian cultural forms from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Its topics include art, literature, theater, music, philosophy, theology, and history, and it embraces material objects as well as texts; women as well as men; merchants, workers, and audiences as well as patrons; Jews and Muslims as well as Christians.

Special issues include

"The Diseased Body in Premodern Europe: Ideology and Representation" (38:3)
—Susan Zimmerman, special issue editor

"Toward a New Diplomatic History" (38:1)
—John Watkins, special issue editor

"Medieval/Renaissance: After Periodization" (37:3)
—Jennifer Summit and David Wallace, special issue editors

"Mapping the Mediterranean" (37:1)
—Valeria Finucci, special issue editor

"Utopias, Medieval and Early Modern" (36:3)
—Patricia Clare Ingham and Karma Lochrie, special issue editors

"Theory and the Study of Premodernity" (36:1)
—Elizabeth A. Clark, special issue editor

"In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture" (35:3)
—Valeria Finucci, special issue editor

"Reform and Cultural Revolution: Writing English Literary History, 1350–1547" (35:1)
—David Aers and Sarah Beckwith, special issue editors

"The Marxist Premodern" (34:3)
—Bruce Holsinger and Ethan Knapp, special issue editors

"Gender and Empire" (34:1)
—Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, special issue editors

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Frequency: Three issues annually