Medium Ævum Monographs

ABOUT

The series Medium Ævum Monographs is produced under the auspices of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature (SSMLL). For more information about the Society and membership, please visit: https://mediumaevum.org.uk/monographs. Members receive access to the series’ ebooks and a discounted rate on print copies.

Monographs editors
Dr Anthony Lappin (Managing Editor; Stockholm University)
Dr Yun Ni (Peking University)
Dr Justin Willson (Yale University)

Advisory Board for SSMLL publications
Stefano Baldassarri (International Studies Institute, Florence), Tom Birkett (University College Cork, Ireland), Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth University, Ireland), Daron Burrows (University of Oxford), Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), Denva Gallant (Rice University), Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University), Sergio La Porta (California State University, Fresno), Alastair Minnis (Yale University), Maria Morras (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Jonathan Morton (Tulane), David Petts (Durham University), Susanne Reichlin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Christian Sahner (University of Oxford), Heather Webb (Yale University)

Information for authors
For enquiries, please contact one of the following editors according to specialism:

• Anthony Lappin, Spanish and Portuguese literature and culture: anthony.lappin@su.se
• Yun NI, English and Western European literature: niyun@pku.edu.cn
• Justin Willson, Byzantine and early Slavic literature and culture: justin.willson@yale.edu

Or contact the series publishing manager: guy.carney@brepols.net

Author guidelines for the series may be found at: https://www.brepols.net/permalink/stylesheet-short-refs

About Medium Ævum Monographs

The objective of Medium Ævum Monographs is to encourage the scholarly interests and skills necessary for study of the production, transmission and cultural reception of texts in their historical circumstances. We understand the Middle Ages to be a global phenomenon, ranging from late antiquity to the emergence and dominance of print. We are committed to rigorous philological study of any vernacular or classical language. We are equally committed to using textual analysis to think about ideas of circulation, translation, transmission, and encounter, including literature’s relation to visual and material culture. Finally, we aim to foster comparative perspectives crossing the linguistic, geographic, disciplinary, and even temporal boundaries that have traditionally defined the Middle Ages.

The size of the manuscript can vary, depending on the needs of the topic, though historically they have ranged from around 100 published pages to over 250. We can accommodate monographs by single or several authors, essay-collections, and editions of texts both large and small.　

History of the Series

Since its first publication in 1936, a study of the Parzival legend as presented by the fifteenth-century German writer Ulrich Füetrer, Medium Ævum Monographs have been publishing research on a wide range of topics relating to the literatures and languages of the Middle Ages. The languages covered thus far comprise Latin and the various medieval forms of English (both Old and Middle), French (including the French of England), German, Gothic, Icelandic, Portuguese, Spanish, and Welsh. Medium Ævum Monographs have featured the genres of epic, chronicle and history-writing, drama, lyric, romance, religious instruction (including prayers, sermons, and preaching aids), and travel literature, together with such specialisms as the afterlife and paradise; games and sports; giants and the monstrous; humanism; lexicography; literary theory; liturgy; love, courtoisie and knighthood; intercultural relations and conflicts; medicine; miracles and hagiography; mythography; philology and linguistics; and philosophical texts in relation to their transmission and reception. Lexicons and descriptive guides to manuscripts have also been produced, together with studies of modern codicological approaches.