The thematic frame of this issue is the anthropological notion of liminality, applied both to physical as well as imaginary places of transition in medieval art. The volume is thus dedicated to the phenomenon of the limen, the threshold in medieval culture, understood mainly as a spatial, ritual and temporal category.

After the Harvest explores how grain and its by-products - bread and beer - defined multiple aspects of the Mesopotamian society and economy. The volume examines dynamics of food storage and food processing, using different field of analysis, comparing diverse methodologies and integrating datasets.

First English translation from the Latin of the first monograph written on the Eucharist: On the Body and Blood of the Lord by the Carolingian theologian Paschasius Radbertus appearing in the critical edition found in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis volume 16.