Oxford Studies in the New Medieval History

Fellow in History Associate Professor Oxford Studies in the New Medieval History is a flagship series, publishing the best original scholarship at the forefront of the field. It aims to showcase the diversity of work on this formative period of the past and is open to a wide range of historical approaches, including those that are reinventing the parameters of the field itself. The ‘new’ in the series title is meant in multiple ways. First and most obviously, it encourages the growing dialogue between scholars of European medieval history and scholars who work on the same centuries in other parts of the world. Second, it reflects the methodological self-awareness and innovation that characterize today’s historiography. And third, it invites consideration of ‘the medieval’ or ‘medievalism’ which have become a vibrant area of interest. Authors in this series will address ‘the new’ in their own particular ways, but it is a conviction of the editors that the best medieval history engages with questions, problems, and perspectives of contemporary concern. The geographical scope of the series is deliberately wide, reflecting the ways that, in recent decades, scholarship has extended medieval history beyond its traditional focus on Latin Europe. Many of the works in the series are grounded in Europe, but often a Europe that was home to people of a diverse array of religious, racial, ethnic, gender, and other identities, and that was connected in formative ways to many other regions of the world. Other works participate in the project of forging a more global view of the middle ages by decentring Europe or by focusing on non-European geographies. The series takes an equally flexible approach to chronology. ‘Medieval’ is an adjective with multiple meanings. Some works in the series fruitfully challenge chronological constraints by deploying analytic frameworks anchored in the middle ages but reaching back into antiquity or forward into early modernity.