Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean

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.

Research papers in Al-Masāq use a range of theoretical and methodological approaches from the humanities and social sciences. All research articles published have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. The journal also invites submissions for thematic issues. Such issues will be peer-reviewed to ensure competence in all fields of research and to ensure consistency with the editorial direction of the journal.

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