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Papers

(The TQCC of Medieval History Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeological Context and Archival Content: Historical Archaeology and Medieval Period Donative Practices on the Raichur Doab, Southern India	3
The Textual Representation of Kingship and Authority in the Chandimangal of Mukunda Chakroborty	3
Granite Landforms and Water Storage at Great Zimbabwe	2
Book review: Audrey Truschke, The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule	2
Book review: Arvind Thomas, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages	1
Book review: Cameron A. Petrie (with contributions by P. Magee, F. Khan, J. R. Knox and K. D. Thomas), Resistance at the Edge of Empires: The Archaeology and History of the Bannu Basin from 1000 BC to	1
Politics Beyond Imperial Cores: Spatial Production in the Peripheries of Medieval South India	1
The Rabbi Frain’s Be-longings, Spain 1492–93: Things and Theory, History and Fabulation	1
What’s in a Name? Reflections on the Tibetan Yatse Dynasty and Nepal’s Role in Its Transition to the Indic (‘Khas’) Malla Dynasty	1
From Choresmia to Cathay: A New Look at al-Bayrūnī’s Chronology	1
Book review:Sudeshna Guha, A History of India Through 75 Objects	1
Living in the City: Jews and Their Residences in Medieval Fusṭāṭ	1
Book review: Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquignot, eds., A Critical Companion to the ‘Mirrors for Princes’	0
When Rulers Came to Town: Jews, Christians and Urban Processions in Medieval France and the Holy Roman Empire	0
Book review: Guido Ruggiero, Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance	0
Why Can’t We Be Friends? John of Salisbury, Thomas Becket and the Discourse of Amicitia	0
Scent, Art and Astronomy: New Light on Tang Incense Spheres and Their Global Connections	0
Book review: Irfan Habib and Tarapada Mukherjee, Braj Bhūm in Mughal Times: The State, Peasants and Gosā’ins	0
Writing on the Wall: Chronicles Written for Public Display at St Paul’s Cathedral, London	0
Book review: Farhat Hasan, Paper, Performance, and the State: Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India	0
Book review: Elizabeth A. Lambourn, Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World	0
Revisiting the Mirzanama: Class Consciousness and the Mughal Middle Classes	0
Perso-Sanskrit Narratives of the Mughal’s Tasḵẖīr-i-kashmir: Phased Opening, Ecology and Literary Strategies	0
Thirteenth MHJ Annual Lecture	0
The City as Fac¸ade in Velha Goa: Recognising Enduring Forms of Urbanism in the Early Modern Konkan	0

From Qin (Ch’in) to Cathay: Names for China and the Chinese on the Silk Road	0
The Making of Polities in the Medieval Kingdom of Valencia, 1231–1419	0
Matter of Time: Ceramics and Historicity in Medieval South India	0
War and the Non-Elite: Towards a People’s History of the Mughal Empire	0
‘Bookish’ Borrowings and Novelty in a Chinese-Christian Manuscript from Dunhuang	0
Ever the Handmaid? A Consideration of What a Medieval Archaeology in South Asia Might Be	0
Between Archaeography and Historiography: Unsettling the Medieval?	0
Book review: Alfredo González-Ruibal, An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland	0
Housing Scent, Containing Sensorium	0
Written in Stone: The Medieval Lives of Roman Sarcophagi in Saint-Maximin	0
Book review: Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj, State and Peasant Society in Medieval North India: Essays on Changing Contours of Mewat	0
Jewish Belonging in Medieval Europe: Challenges and Possibilities	0
Interplays and Interactions on the Maritime and Overland Silk Roads in the First Millennium ce	0
Introduction to the Special Issue	0
Introduction: Materiality and Methodology: Ways of Knowing and Narrating	0
Political Thought in Iberian Educational Centres: An Excursus Through the Circulation of Books and Ideas (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)	0
A Hidden Plague: Violence and Public Health in Colonial Guatemala City	0
Materiality and Marginalia across the World: The Role of Things in Christopher Columbus’s Annotations on Marco Polo	0
In Remembrance	0
Analysis of the Dome-Chamber’s Openness in Persian Historical Mosques	0
Book review: Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe	0
Celebrating Emotion: A Study of Rasa in Qutban Suhravardi’s Mirigavati or The Magic Doe	0
Depreciation of Military Service Costs in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in Central-Eastern Europe	0
Persian Astronomy in China	0
Editorial Note	0
Revisiting the Murder of the Jew Priscus in Sixth-Century Paris	0
Climatic Variation and Society in Medieval South Asia: Unexplored Threads of History and Archaeology of Mandu	0
Book review: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650	0
The Subject Behind the Object: The Language of Things in the Time of the Crusades	0
Book review: Lorenz Böninger, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493	0
Book review: John Christopoulos, Abortion in Early Modern Italy	0
A Transnational History of Bilingual Jewish Charters from Medieval Europe	0
From Yu–suf al-Bas.r to Judah Halevi: The Sadduceean Myth of the Origins of Karaism in Medieval Rabbanite Sources Revisited	0
The Christian Military Colonies in Medieval Ethiopia: The Chewa System	0
Swearing Oaths and Affixing Seals: Acts of Citizenship and Belonging Among Jews in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire	0
Experiences of Citizenship in Late Medieval Southern German Lands	0
The Introduction of Writing into Achaemenid Gandhāra and the Origin of Pāṇini’s Grammar	0
Introduction: Archaeologies of the Medieval	0
The Sword of Roland in La Serenissima: Materiality and the Occult in Late Medieval Venice	0
Reason vs. Religion in Medieval India: Mainly from Evidence in Persian	0
A New Focus on Cityscapes in Late Medieval German Literature: Rudolf von Ems and Heinrich Kaufringer	0
The Overland Route Between Bilād Al-S̲hām and Istanbul During the Ottoman Era: Evidence from Arabic Travelogues	0
Indo-Islamicate Perfumes in Early Modern India: Textualisation, Transmissions and Assimilations	0
Settlement Policy and Competition in Towns: The Case of Anschel of Münzenberg	0
Medieval Jews, Belonging and ‘Lived Citizenship’	0
Agro-Pastoralism, Archaeology and Religious Landscapes in Early Medieval South India	0
Ephemeral Traces: Archaeology of a Medieval Rural Settlement	0
The Chinese Pothi: A Missing Link in the History of the Chinese Book	0
Sedom’s Subjects: Sodomy and Urban Politics in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Castile	0
Book review: Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner, Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau	0