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)
Rodrigo Laham Cohen (Buenos Aires), The Jews in Late Antiquity
Kriston Rennie (Queensland), Medieval Canon Law
James Palmer (St Andrews), Early Medieval Hagiography
Juliana Grigg (Monash, Vic.), The Picts Re-Imagined
Matthew Cheung Salisbury (Oxford), Medieval Worship
Catherine Clarke (Southampton), Medieval Cityscapes Today
Christine Baker (Indiana, PA), Medieval Islamic Sectarianism
Susan Marian Oosthuizen (Cambridge), The Emergence of the English
Jamie Wood (Lincoln), The Goths
Timothy May (North Georgia-Dahlonega), The Mongols
Scott McDonough (William Paterson, NJ), Sasanian Iran
Marilyn Dunn (Glasgow), Arianism
Martin J. Ryan (Manchester), The Anglo-Saxons
Dorothy Kim (Vassar, NY), Digital Whiteness & Medieval Studies
Sæbjørg Nordeide (Bergen) and Kevin Edwards (Aberdeen), The Vikings
Ana Rodriguez (CSIC, Madrid), Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Alicia Spencer-Hall (Queen Mary’s, London), Medieval Twitter
Annie Montgomery Labatt (University of Texas at San Antonio), Byzantine Rome
Jan Cemper-Kiesslich (University of Salzburg), Molecular Archaeology
Leonora Neville (Wisconsin-Madison), Byzantine Gender
Alex Mallett (Exeter), Christian-Muslim Relations during the Crusades
Alice Isabella Sullivan (University of Michigan), Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier
Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UC Santa Cruz), The Almoravid Maghreb
Marika Mägi (Tallinn), The Eastern Vikings
Katalin Szende (CEU, Budapest), Medieval Towns of Central Europe
Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen (Pacific Lutheran University), Medieval Medicine on the Margins
Scott Bruce (Colorado-Boulder), Monks at Work
Anne E. Lester (University of Colorado Boulder), Crusades and Devotion
Peter Webb (SOAS, London), The Hajj
John Eldevik (Hamilton), The Legend of Prester John
David Álvarez Jiménez (La Rioja), The Vandals
Francois Soyer (Southampton), Medieval Anti-Semitism?
Anna Linden Weller (Uppsala University), The Medieval Armenians
Klaus Peter Oschema (University of Bochum), The Idea of Europe
Stephen E. Lahey (University of Nebraska), The Hussites
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom (Wittenberg University), The Desert Fathers
Helen Nicholson (Cardiff), The Knights Templar
Youval Rotman (Tel Aviv University), Mediterranean Slaveries
Hyun Jin Kim (Melbourne), The Huns of Europe
Elena Woodacre (Winchester), Queens and Queenship
