We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for themed submissions for our 2026 online Conference: Fame and Fortune to Monday 16 March 2026.
Please email your submission for a 20-minute (+ 10 minutes Q&A) presentation to ceraejournal@gmail.com. Please ensure that you include the following:
- A 150–200 word abstract.
- Your academic affiliation and title (if any).
- A short 50–100 word biography.
- The location (or time-zone) from which you will be presenting at the time of the conference.
- If there are any particular times during the period of the conference when you would not be available to present.
The Ceræ Conference will be held on 25–26 April 2026.
Further details on the conference are available here.
Book Reviewers Invited for Volume 13
Ceræ would also like to invite book reviewers to contribute to our thirteenth 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, 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) if this is provided. Some books are only available as ebooks; please clarify with the editors which medium you prefer.
Please submit your initial request by Wednesday 25 March 2026 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:
- Patrick Outhwaite, Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy: England and Central Europe, 1350–1434 (Boydell & Brewer, 2024).
- Larisa Grollemond, Michael Kelin, Elizabeth Morrison, Joshua O’Driscoll, The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe (Getty Publications, 2024).
- Matthew Firth, Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception (Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
- Victoria Flood, Fantastic Histories: Medieval Fairy Narratives and the Limits of Wonder (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
- Roger S. Wieck (ed.), Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life (Morgan Library & Museum / D Giles Limited, 2025).
- Anastasija Ropa, The Medieval Horse (Reaktion Books, 2025).
- Arthur Bahr, Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
- Marcelo E. Fuentes, Contradictory Muslims in the Literature of Medieval Iberian Christians (Springer, 2026).
- Kristen Collins & Nancy K. Turner (eds.), Lumen: The Art and Science of Light, 800–1600 (Getty Publications, 2024).
- Mary Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints: in Medieval and Early Modern Rome (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).
- Cesare Santus, Jean-Pascal Gay, Laurent Tatarenko (eds.), The Inquisition and the Christian East, 1350–1850 (Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
- Ovanes Akopyan & David Rosenthal (eds.), Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions (Routledge, 2024).
- Sarah Toulalan, Early Modern Bodies (Routledge, 2025).
- W. G. Miller & Ann G. Smith, Maritime Misadventures in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Storms, Pirates, Accidents and War (Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
- Richard Danson Brown & Andrew Hadfield (eds.), Bad Poetry? New Perspectives on the Value of Sixteenth-Century Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
- S. Jeyaseela Stephen, Slaves From the Tamil Coast and European Trade Around the World (Boydell & Brewer, 2026).
- Larissa Tracy & Gila Aloni (eds.), Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society (Brill, 2026).
- Tonicha M. Upham, Death Rituals: The Rūs and ‘Vikings’ in Arabic and Persian (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
If you wish to review a title which has not been listed, then please email the Book Reviews Editors directly with your suggestion(s), as we do consider all requests for recent and forthcoming titles.
Featured image: Guillaume de Machaut, ‘Rueda de la Fortuna‘, Poésies: Jugement du roi de Bohème, ca. 1350-1355. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 1586, fol. 30v.