Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures
ISSN:
2421-5503
The Journal Interfaces opens
an interdisciplinary and multilingual forum for the study of medieval
European literatures. These literatures are broadly conceived as the
products of the interconnected textual cultures which flourished between
Late Antiquity and the Renaissance in a region extending from the North
Atlantic to the Eastern Mediterranean. Interfaces envisages
the study of the textual culture of medieval Europe as situated at the
intersection of a number of modern disciplines, including history,
literature, philology, codicology, philosophy, sociolinguistics, and
theology.
Contributions are invited which cross
linguistic or disciplinary boundaries in the recognition that the
vitality of medieval texts in present-day scholarship and culture
demands a space not confined by single philologies, national research
traditions, confessions, or disciplinary canons. Interfaces
strives to combine methodological questioning of hermeneutic and
didactic practices with the opening up of new common themes, new
connections between literatures, and new transdisciplinary
conceptualisations of the modern understanding of medieval literatures,
including regional and global challenges to claims of European unity.
It is the ambition of Interfaces
to publish the best new scholarship which will contribute to a
redefining of how the medieval textual heritage Europe is read,
researched, taught and disseminated in the 21st century.
European medieval civilization – of which Greek, Hebrew, Slavonic, and
Arabic textual cultures form an integral but often neglected part – will
continue to be an important source of cultural identity in a globalised
world and the global perspectives of the 21st century impel
us to ask new questions of the medieval past. The changing forms and
technologies of literature and historical writing in the present also
urges us to engage with pre-modern writing in new ways. The texts
transmitted to us from the Middle Ages and how we read them are a
crucial site for negotiating the relationship between modernity and the
past.
Interfaces will promote new types of
high quality scholarship as well as make the case for the historical,
intellectual, and aesthetic value of the literatures of a broadly
conceived medieval Europe.
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