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Chao Chen, Humanities Librarian (chao.chen@tufts.edu; 617-627-2057)
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Five Journals for Medieval Art Research

Studies in Iconography. (Oversize: NX1 .S84)
published by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University.
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An annual that contains original essays

overview of scholarship on a topic of current interest.

that approach, from an interdisciplinary and/or theoretical perspective, the visual culture of the period before 1600. Each volume contains six to ten in-depth reviews of important recent scholarly books


Gesta
published by International Center of Medieval Art
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including the arts of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures in the European,Mediterranean, and Slavic worlds.

The major English-language journal devoted to the art of the Middle Ages, Gesta embraces all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 C.E..


Speculum
Published by Medieval Academy of America
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Speculum is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. The chronological boundaries of the medieval period are defined as approximately A.D. 500-1500.

Articles and book reviews on any and all aspects of the Middle Ages.

The primary geographic focus of the journal is on Western Europe, but Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic, and Slavic studies are also included.


Essays in Medieval Studies
Published by West Virginia University Press
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Speculum is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. The chronological boundaries of the medieval period are defined as approximately A.D. 500-1500. The primary geographic focus of the journal is on Western Europe, but Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic, and Slavic studies are also included.

 

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Previously published by Duke Universtiy Press
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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.