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Medieval Institute Publications
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Medieval People

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"Double Portrait of Israhel van Meckenem and His Wife Ida," Israhel van Meckenem, ca. 1490, Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.99. Public domain. 

Medieval Institute Publications publishes Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks (ISSN 2690-8182; eISSN 2690-8190), formerly published under the title Medieval Prosopography: History and Collective Biography (ISSN 0198-9405; eISSN 2381-8700).

Medieval People builds upon what its precursor, Medieval Prosopography, sought to do: it is dedicated to highlighting the experiences of unknown or obscure individuals or groups, as well as exploring the social networks that gave shape to the lives of all medieval people. The journal has been updated, however, to reflect the new trends in scholarship and the ever-growing number of tools available to scholars, as well as the rich offerings of digital humanities projects that can assist scholars in developing a deeper and more inclusive understanding of the medieval world. Therefore volume 35 of Medieval Prosopography was the last volume available in print, while volume 36 (2022), was the first volume under the title Medieval People and the first online-only volume of the journal (articles can be printed by subscribers). 

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Current issue: Volume 39 (2024)

Medieval People Vol. 39 cover; green, and in the center, there is a partial manuscript illustration of several figures surroungin a central figure, tonsured and wearing a red cloak.

Introduction: Marriage on Trial – Women, Gender, and Family, by Arnaud Fossier and Sara McDougall

Believing Medieval Women, by Ruth Mazo Karras

How to Get Divorced in Medieval Tuscany: Women's Agency and "publica fama" in Church Court Records (Pistoia, Late Thirteenth Century), by Arnaud Fossier

The Controversial Disinheritance of Elisabeth van Massemen in Fifteenth-Century Ghent, by Chanelle Delameillieure

"You gave me a husband and you have taken him as your wife": Gender and Family Trouble (Bologna, 1474), by Didier Lett

Jacque and Her Four Husbands (Picardy, 1490s), by Elisabeth Lusset

Adultery, "Just Cause," and the Dynamics of Royal Pardon in a Spousal Homicide Case from Late Fifteenth-Century Toledo, by Yanay Israeli and Sharon Kisluk

"With Male Voice and Female Modesty": Trans Bodies, Gender, Marriage and Subjectivity before Ecclesiastical and Secular Tribunals in Renaissance Venice, by Cecilia Cristellon

SEE VOLUME 39 ON SCHOLARWORKS

Digital Humanities Projects

Medieval People has featured several digital humanities projects in past issues. The current featured project is titled Mapping the Medieval Woman. 

Editors

  • Amy Livingstone, University of Lincoln, UK
  • Charlotte Cartwright, Christopher Newport University
  • Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln, UK

Executive board

  • Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois University
  • Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
  • Joel T. Rosenthal, State University of New York at Stony Brook

This journal explores the lives of medieval people of all ranks, periods and places in the medieval world and welcomes submissions that explore a single life, that highlight the important social bonds of an individual or group, or the study of social networks from late antiquity to the sixteenth century. If the editors believe the article is suitable for publication in the journal, it will be evaluated by experts in the field. Articles in the major European languages are invited and will be published in their original language. Please submit articles through the journal's ScholarWorks page, and contact the editors with any questions about submissions.

General submission rules 

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Medieval People, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Medieval People.

Formatting requirements 

Please submit articles with a minimum of formatting. Do not justify the right margin, or use varying type sizes or variable line space, or insert extra spaces around paragraphs. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for further details. Additional necessary materials (e.g., tables, family trees, etc.) should also be submitted as Word files when possible.

The most recent volume of Medieval Prosopography, Volume 37 (1), contained articles by Joel Rosenthal, Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Mireille J. Pardon, Nathan Leidholm, Katherine Weikert, Emily J. Hutchison and Sara McDougall, Ralph V. Turner, Virginia Bainbridge and Gilbert Bogner.

All past volumes of Medieval Prosopography are available on our ScholarWorks platform.

Subscriptions

Medieval People is published annually in a digital format. Journal subscriptions and orders of individual issues, which can also be printed on demand, are handled by our distributor, ISD. Subscription pricing is as follows:

  • Student/retiree/independent scholar subscriptions are $25.
  • Individual subscriptions are $45.
  • Institution or library subscriptions are $95.
  • Our subscription order form can also be used to contact ISD for print-on-demand orders.