Ceræ invites the participation of book reviewers for our twelfth volume. If you have not previously written an academic book review, this is no barrier to requesting a book to review, and indeed we encourage and publish reviews from established scholars to junior graduate students and everyone in between.
Interested scholars should contact the Reviews Editors at reviewscerae@gmail.com with a maximum of three titles per reviewer, listed in order of preference. Please also include your name, institution (if any), current academic status and field, as well as a phone number and mailing address for a physical copy of the book(s). Some books are only available as ebooks; please clarify with the editors which medium would work best for you.
Please submit your initial request by 7 March 2025 to ensure that your first preferences are taken into account. After this date, books may still be requested but there is no guarantee of which titles will remain unallocated.
The following books are currently available to review:
- Marco Nievergelt, Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience (Oxford University Press, 2023).
- John A. Dempsey, Bonizo of Sutri: Portrait in a Landscape (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
- Alberto Melloni, Federico Ruozzi and Francesca Cadeddu (eds.), Faith and Pestilence: Paradigms and Historical, Theological, Hermeneutic Issues, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2025).
- Noëlle L.W. Streeton, Tine Frøysaker, and Peter Bjerregaard (eds.), Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia, (Brill Publishing, 2024).
- Dušan Zupka, Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe: Social, Ruling and Religious Transformations, (Routledge, December 2024).
- John Eldevik, Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts (ARC Humanities Press, 2024).
- Chloë Houston, Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530-1699: The Imagined Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
- Theresa Tinkle, Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275-1475: Royal Traitor, Heroic Lamb (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
- Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison (eds.), Medieval Women: Voices & Visions, (British Library Publishing, 2024).
- Matthew Gabriele, Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval Europe (Oxford University Press, 2024).
- Andrew H. Sorber, Prophecy and Politics in the Early Carolingian World (Routledge, 2024).
- Alfonso J. Garcia-Osuna, The Atlantic as Mythical Space: An Essay on Medieval Ethea (Vernon Press, 2023).
- Mathilde van Dijk (ed.), Companion Species Saints, Animals and Ordinary Humans in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2024).
- Beth C. Spacey, The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative (Boydell & Brewer, 2023).
- Laurie Atkinson, Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas (Boydell & Brewer, 2024).
- Kimm Curran and Janet Burton, (eds.), Medieval Women Religious c. 800-c.1500: New Perspectives (Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
Publications in Languages Other Than English
- Judith Klinger, Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert (De Gruyter, 2024).
- Simona Feci, L’acquetta di Giulia: Mogli avvelenatrici e mariti violenti nella Roma del Seicento (Viella, 2024).
- Marina Montesano, Maleficia: Storie di streghe dall’Antichità al Rinascimento, (Carocci, 2023).
- Philippe George, Toucher l’invisible: Pour une histoire des reliques de l’Antiquité tardive à nos jours (Viella, 2024).
- José Luis Senra Gabriel y Galán and Laura Rodríguez Peinado (eds.), Homo viator: Expresiones artísticas e itinerarios de ida y vuelta (Trea Ediciones, 2024).
If you wish to review a title which is not listed, then please email the Book Reviews Editors directly with your suggestion, as we do consider all requests for recent and forthcoming titles.
All reviewers will find the following guidelines helpful in writing your review (especially if it is your first):
- A review is not just a summary of each chapter (for a monograph), but rather is a balanced assessment of the book’s contribution to its academic field, with a greater focus on significant themes or issues within the book.
- For monographs, if possible, discuss the work within the context of the author’s other publications.
- In the case of edited collections, do not describe every contribution, instead pick out those which are in your opinion significant or important.
- For all titles, locate the reviewed work within the broader scholarship of the field.
- Indicate if the book is intended for specialists or a broader audience, and assume that the reader has neither read the book nor is overly familiar with its specialised academic field;
- The word limit for reviews is 800–1200 words, not including the bibliographic information which is to be provided in place of a title.
- Footnotes are not used in reviews, please use in-text citations (ie, Harvard style referencing).
Featured image: Dream of the three Magi, c. 1020, Gospels, Anon; London BL Royal 1 D X, fol-2v.