Past Imperfect presents concise critical overviews of the latest research by the world’s leading scholars. Subjects cross the full range of fields in the period ca. 400-1500 CE which, in a European context, is known as the Middle Ages. Anyone interested in this period will be enthralled and enlightened by these overviews, written in provocative but accessible language. These affordable paperbacks prove that the era still retains a powerful resonance and impact throughout the world today.
Geographical Scope
Medieval Europe, Global Studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic History
Chronological Scope
ca. 400-1500 CE
Readership
The readership of these short, affordable books comprises principally fellow scholars in late antique, medieval, and early modern studies as a whole (but authors should not assume that they are specialists in the specific topic) and postgraduate and undergraduate students. Additionally we aspire to reach the wider educated public through making the book easily available on various national Amazon online stores. The books should be written in a scholarly idiom, but one that is accessible to these different audiences.
Evaluation and Peer Review
This brand of compact volumes is developed through personal invitation of specialists capable of writing a concise, short monograph in the “edgy” style described below. The invitation is based on the press’s research into suitable scholars who are already established authorities in the field. Notwithstanding, all submitted manuscripts are subject to peer review from an independent expert chosen by the press. The peer review questionnaire is modified from the press’s standard form, to reflect the particular demands of this type of publication.
For more information on preparing a volume for this series see the guidance page.
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Titles Published
All available as paperback, PDF e-book, and ePUB.
Titles in Production or Contracted (in order of scheduled appearance)
James T. Palmer (University of St. Andrews), Early Medieval Hagiography
Kriston R. Rennie (University of Queensland), Medieval Canon Law
Rodrigo Laham Cohen (University of Buenos Aries), The Jews in Late Antiquity
Julianna Grigg (Monash, Vic.), The Picts Re-Imagined
Matthew Cheung Salisbury (University of Oxford), Worship in Medieval England
Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), The Goths
Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University), Why Study Byzantium?
Alice Isabella Sullivan (University of Michigan), Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier
Christine Danielle Baker (Indiana University of Pennsylvania,), Medieval Islamic Sectarianism
Camilo Gómez-Rivas (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Almoravid Maghreb
Timothy Michael May (University of North Georgia), The Mongols
Marika Mägi (Tallinn University), The Eastern Vikings
Marilyn Dunn (University of Glasgow, School of Humanities), Arianism
Katalin Szende (CEU, Budapest), Medieval Towns of Central Europe
Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen (Pacific Lutheran University), Medieval Medicine on the Margins
Scott Gordon Bruce (University of Colorado at Boulder), Monks at Work
Catherine A. M. Clarke (University of Southampton, Department of English), Medieval Cityscapes Today
Anne E. Lester (University of Colorado Boulder), Crusades and Devotion
Dorothy Kim (Vassar College), Digital Whiteness & Medieval Studies
Scott John McDonough (William Paterson University), Sasanian Iran
Martin J. Ryan (University of Manchester), The Anglo-Saxons
Peter Webb (Leiden University), The Hajj
John Eldevik (Hamilton College), The Legend of Prester John
Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide (University of Bergen) and Kevin John Edwards (University of Aberdeen), The Vikings
Ana Rodríguez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Alicia Spencer-Hall (Queen Mary, University of London), Medieval Twitter
Ema Petrovic Miljkovic (University of Niš), Non-Muslims in Ottoman Europe
David Álvarez Jiménez (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja), The Vandals
Marica Cassis (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Byzantine Archaeology
Annie Montgomery Labatt (University of Texas at San Antonio), Byzantine Rome
Francois Soyer (University of Southampton), Medieval Anti-Semitism?
Sarah Davis-Secord (University of New Mexico, History), Migration in the Mediterranean
Jan Cemper-Kiesslich (University of Salzburg), Molecular Archaeology
Anna Linden Weller (Uppsala University), The Medieval Armenians
Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Byzantine Gender
Alex Mallett (Waseda University), Christian-Muslim Relations during the Crusades
Madi Williams (University of Canterbury), Polynesia, 900-1600
Klaus Peter Oschema (University of Bochum), The Idea of Europe
Stephen E. Lahey (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), The Hussites
Darlene Lynn Brooks Hedstrom (Wittenberg University), The Desert Fathers
Helen Jane Nicholson (Cardiff University), The Knights Templar
Youval Rotman (Tel Aviv University), Mediterranean Slaveries
Hyun Jin Kim (University of Melbourne), The Huns of Europe
