Journal introduction:

Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean is a peer reviewed, international journal covering all aspects of Mediterranean societies and cultures from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries CE. As the journal of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, it aims to foster cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary investigation, encouraging debate on the intercommunal and transregional crosspollination within the Medieval Mediterranean, and promoting innovatory research. Al-Masāq covers a varied range of topics, including: • Transmission and communication of culture in the Mediterranean • Islam in medieval European writings • Mediterranean art and architecture • Material Culture in the Mediterranean • Seafaring and coastal communities • Archaeology • Hagiography, sermons and related literature • Conversion: Jewish, Christian and Islamic • Crusades, the Latin East • Gender and the Mediterranean • Islam in Spain and Sicily • Norman Sicily • Byzantium • Orthodox Christianity • Monasticism and religious life • Government and warfare • Medicine, science and technology • Military history • Concepts of identity in the Mediterranean • Geography and settlement studies • Historical writing • Archives and resources • Mediterranean economies • Mediterranean Languages and literatures • Mediterranean Connections and Communities.

Frequency：3 Issues Per Year

Editorial board
Founding Editor:
Dionisius A. Agius - University of Exeter, UK

Editor-in-Chief:
Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner - Woolf Institute, UK

Assistant Editor:
Jessica Tearney-Pearce - University of Cambridge, UK

Book Review Editor:
Professor Andrew Marsham - University of Cambridge, UK

Editorial Board:
Mike Carr – University of Edinburgh, UK
Salvatore Cosentino – University of Bologna, Italy
Theresa Jaeckh – Durham University, UK
Lisa Mahoney – DePaul University, Chicago, USA
Andrew Merrills – University of Leicester, UK
Nicholas Morton – Nottingham Trent University, UK
Amy Remensnyder – Brown University, USA
Roser Salicrú – CSIC Barcelona, Spain
Nicky Tsougarakis – Edgehill University, Liverpool, UK
Philip Wood – Aga Khan University, UK
Luke Yarbrough – UCLA, USA

Advisory Board:
David Abulafia – University of Cambridge, UK
Pascal Buresi – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Brian Catlos – University of Colorado, USA
Ann Christys – Independent Researcher, UK
Florin Curta – University of Florida, USA
Simon Doubleday – Hofstra University, USA
Ana Echevarría – UNED, Spain
Maribel Fierro – CSIC Madrid, Spain
Carole Hillenbrand – University of Edinburgh, UK
Nikolas Jaspert – Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Andreas Kaplony – Ludwid-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Benjamin Kedar – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Hugh Kennedy – SOAS, UK
Thomas Madden – St Louis University, USA
Alex Metcalfe – Lancaster University, UK
Alan Murray – University of Leeds, UK
Mariam Rosser-Owen – Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Maya Shatzmiller – University of Western Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Shepard – Independent Researcher, UK
Petra Sijpesteijn – University of Leiden, Netherlands
Angus Stewart – University of St Andrews, UK
Damian Smith – St Louis University, USA
Alun Williams – University of Exeter, UK

Abstracting and indexing：
This journal is indexed and abstracted in:
Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Current Abstracts; Index Islamicus; OCLC


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