CFP Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (8/15/2026)

Call for Submissions: Journal of Medieval Worlds (Relaunch Issue)

Posted on February 9, 2026

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-submissions-journal-of-medieval-worlds-relaunch-issue/

Call for Submissions: Journal of Medieval Worlds Special Issue: Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (Spring 2027) 

Submission Type: Short Essays & Critical Responses (1,000–3,000 words)

The Journal of Medieval Worlds is relaunching with a special issue dedicated to the “fragment” as a critical lens. We invite submissions of short-form essays that address the evolving landscape of Medieval Studies, with an emphasis on race, gender, sexuality, decolonization, and the Global Middle Ages.

This is a unique opportunity to publish shorter, critically engaged work that reflects on:

• Archival Fragments: How do we build history from residue and partial objects?
• Professional Fragmentation: The experience of the “Lone Medievalist” or contingent faculty.
• Global Perspectives: How the Global Middle Ages has shifted pedagogical and scholarly approaches.

Submission Deadline: August 15. 

Full Call for Submissions: Here. 

Send manuscripts to: JMW_editorial@ucpress.edu 

Journal Details: https://online.ucpress.edu/jmw.

CFP Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue (3/31/2026)

Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2026

full name / name of organization:
The So What/Arthuriana

contact email:
thesowhatpub@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/07/sports-medievalism-tsw-special-issue

In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when they record a particularly impressive jump, race, throw, indicating a raise in the competition stakes, a nod to their fellow competitors that they are the champion to beat. In the 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale, jousting enthusiasts are depicted like modern day sports fans, with Ulrich’s friends even singing a football chant in the pub.



The So What welcomes proposals for short (1500-3000 words), public-facing pieces engaging with sport and the medieval, with a planned online publication of early 2027. We welcome pieces that are critical, creative, or pedagogical and topics that engage with the relationship between sporting culture and medieval aesthetic, whether that’s through the use of the medieval in modern sports or sporting teams, the medieval history of a sport, or reenactment of medieval sporting competitions, and so on. We welcome a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to:

• The use of medieval imagery in sporting culture/teams;
• The revival of medieval sports or activities in the modern era;
• The development/history of medieval sports and sporting competitions;
• Depictions of medieval sport in media and popular culture;
• The use of ‘medieval’ phrases and language in sport commentary and discourse.

Please send us your proposals by March 31, 2026. Style and submission guides are available on our site. Proposals and questions can be emailed to issue editor, Mairi Stirling Hill, at: mairi.hill@unimelb.edu.au



You can also view the CFP online here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3ajj-fN02ozhR4eRXZzDz2ma-cfPqSB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111283483144674200251&rtpof=true&sd=true%C2%A0.



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