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Call for Papers: Open Topic Issue
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is accepting submissions for the Open-Topic Issue (Volume 57 / Number 2 / May 2027). Deadline for submission of manuscripts has been extended to April 30, 2026. View the full Call for Papers.

Call for Special Issue Proposals
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is accepting proposals for special issues. View the full Call for Special Issue Proposals.

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Current Volume: 56

Frequency: 3 issues annually

Academic Editors: David Aers, Sarah Beckwith

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.

The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies received the 2018 CELJ Best Special Issue Award for "The Bible and English Readers," volume 47, number 3.

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Editors:
David Aers, Duke University
Sarah Beckwith, Duke University

Editorial Assistants:
Lillian Fan
Mike Sockol

Founding Editor:
Marcel Tetel

Editorial Board:
David Aers
Sarah Beckwith
Michael Cornett
Martin Eisner
Sara Galletti
Roseen Giles
Andrew Griebeler
Polly Ha
John Jeffries Martin
Ronald K. Rittgers
Omid Safi
Philip Stern
Julianne Werlin

For Authors

We are currently accepting special issue proposals and open-topic issue submissions. Please consult the call for submissions at the end of the current issue for descriptions of upcoming issues and deadlines for the submission of manuscripts.

Submit manuscripts online at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-jme.

Manuscripts should be double-spaced and include endnotes, following the style guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style (18th ed., chap. 13 on documentation). Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words inclusive of notes. To facilitate the anonymous review process, please make sure your name, affiliation, contact information, and any other identifying information do not appear on your manuscript and be sure that citations to your own work are worded to maintain your anonymity. For more information, please consult the journal's complete contributor guidelines.

Send correspondence to jmems_dup@duke.edu.

Call for Papers: Open Topic Issue
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is accepting submissions for the Open-Topic Issue (Volume 57 / Number 2 / May 2027). Deadline for submission of manuscripts is April 30, 2026. View the full Call for Papers.

Call for Special Issue Proposals
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is accepting proposals for special issues. View the full Call for Special Issue Proposals.

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Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds
Volume 56, Number 1

New Directions in Medieval Postcolonialism
Volume 55, Number 3

Lived Religion and Shared Experience in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Volume 55, Number 1

Demographic History and English Culture
Volume 54, Number 3

Physiognomy and Visual Judgment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Volume 54, Number 1

Intention and Interpretation, Now and Then
Volume 53, Number 3

Remapping British Protestant Thought in the Long Reformation
Volume 53, Number 1

Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories
Volume 52, Number 3

Forms of Catastrophe
Volume 52, Number 1

Performance beyond Drama
Volume 51, Number 3

Pilgrimage and Textual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Production, Exchange, Reception
Volume 51, Number 1

Ideologies of Diplomacy: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Representation in Early Modern England
Volume 50, Number 3

The Cultural Dynamics of Reception in Early Modern Europe
Volume 50, Number 1

Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to Early Modernity
Volume 49, Number 3

The Fortunes of Tragedy: Medieval and Early Modern
Volume 49, Number 1

Conversions: Medieval and Early Modern
Volume 48, Number 3

Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy
Volume 48, Number 1

The Bible and English Readers
Volume 47, Number 3

Microhistory and the Historical Imagination: New Frontiers
Volume 47, Number 1

Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe
Volume 46, Number 1

The Renaissance Collage: Toward a New History of Reading
Volume 45, Number 3

Thinking through Death: The Politics of the Corpse
Volume 45, Number 1

The Sacred Object
Volume 44, Number 3

Devotion and Intellectual Labor
Volume 44, Number 1

Medieval and Early Modern Artisan Culture
Volume 43, Number 3

Space and Place in Early Modern English Theater
Volume 43, Number 1

Monasticisms Medieval and Early Modern
Volume 42, Number 3

Virtue, Identity, and Agency: Ethical Formation from Medieval to Early Modern
Volume 42, Number 1

Identity and Religion in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Volume 41, Number 3

Theodor De Bry’s Voyages to the New and Old Worlds
Volume 41, Number 1

English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative
Volume 40, Number 3

Premodern Shakespeare
Volume 40, Number 1

The Diseased Body in Premodern Europe: Ideology and Representation
Volume 38, Number 3

Medieval/Renaissance: After Periodization
Volume 37, Number 3

The Marxist Premodern
Volume 34, Number 3

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