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Papers

(The TQCC of Postmedieval-A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Pathei mathos and skandalon in Le Sacre du Printemps	2
Judging sexy women in late medieval France	2
Poems for the Women of Beowulf: A ‘Contemporary Medieval’ Project	2
Fictionalities in medieval Arabic texts: A roundtable	2
Greening the global medieval: Exploring the cultural worlds of the Palaeoanthropocene in East Asia	1
The Just Without Justification: On Meister Eckhart and Political Theology	1
Gardening time: Horticulture and meditations on time in Song (960–1279) China	1
Mountains, meaning, mediation: Petrarch’s ‘Ascent to Mont Ventoux’ (1336) and the ecological imagination of classical Chinese poetry	1
East Asian Palaeoanthropocenes: Responses	1
Response essay: A hypothesis of the Middle Ages	1
The voice astray: Caroline Bergvall’s Dante	1
Tracing the legacies of medieval dance: Historical, critical, and artistic approaches	1
About the Cover	1
About the Cover	1
Publisher Correction: Hearkening to the ‘voice’ of Teika: Authors and readers of poetry treatise forgeries in medieval Japan	0
‘Dead faces laugh’: Medievalist hungers and Irish republican time, 1917-1981	0
In the skin of a donkey: On the moral status of animals of burden in two medieval Spanish versions of ‘The Miller, his Son and the Donkey’	0
‘A beginning for them all’: The medieval pluriverse of Gloria Naylor’s ‘Sapphira Wade’	0
Editors’ introduction: Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval	0
Encountering the environmental uncanny in Su Shi’s Rhapsodies on the Red Cliff: An ecocritical parable in text and image	0
About the Cover	0
Rewriting the wild: Fiction, adab, and the making of Majnun’s animal world	0
Animal feelings: senses of the Carolingian hunt	0
Portraying multilingualism in Ottoman literary culture: Qasidat al-burdah translations in ornamented manuscripts	0
Visionary apprehensions: rethinking “premedieval Japan” in terms of a postmedieval sinoscape	0

Medievalist forgery? Editions, adaptations, and translations of Kudrun in the nineteenth century	0
Arabic lore as an inspiration for medieval Provençal Jews: The curious case of Mishle ha-‘arav	0
Editor’s introduction: Beyond Arabic in premodern Islamic worlds	0
‘To se hem play, hyt was fayr game’: Playing & dancing in Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal	0
Beyond imitation: A case for the hermeneutic agency of Persianate literary retellings	0
The erotic kiss in ancient and Byzantine novels	0
All tied up: A conversation about disorder, harmony, and the potentials of entanglement in Classical East Asia	0
Sacrilegious bodies: Gender, race, and medieval dance in nineteenth-century missions	0
Al-Tawḥīdī, Fictionality, and the Mediatedness of Narrative	0
Teaching Chaucer in China in the Republican Period (1912-1949)	0
Dancing in silence in premodern Europe	0
Ecologies of things and texts: Nature, matter, and material culture in the Middle Ages	0
The womb as a wild mother beast	0
The transhistorical, transcultural life of sausages: From medieval morescas to New Mexican Matachines with Aby Warburg	0
Voice as talisman: Theorising sound in medieval Japanese treatises on the musical art of sutra chanting	0
About the Cover	0
Mouth stuff: How Hildegard and Mechthild feminise God and articulate a discourse of ‘lesbian’ erotics through oral metaphors	0
Labor, time, and walking through mountains: A response essay	0
The simorgh and the celestial conjunction	0
Toying with dance: A medievalist interprets The Nutcracker ballet	0
Chiasm in choros: The dance of inspirited bodies	0
Fictional(ised) beginnings of the Ottoman Dynasty: Notes on the Hikâyet-ı Zuhûr-ı Âl-i ‘Osmân	0
Dance as a liberating practice into divine darkness?: A systematic theologian re-reads Philo of Alexandria’s descriptions of dance	0
Islamicate fictionalities and transmissions to theory	0
Embodying the wind	0
A monstrous king and a forged prophecy: Parody, invention, and social hierarchy in the Kushnāmeh	0
sinne and sêlen kraft: medieval models of sensory perception in a mural of the Constance Haus zur Kunkel	0
The decorative wooden ceilings of Nasrid Granada and the Alhambra	0
Mount Baoding: A planetary story	0
Dancing the Kleptocene	0
Persianate Malabar: Muhammad Shah’s Takiyya and the composition of an Arabi-Malayalam Sufi romance-mathnawī in Southern India	0
Retelling the Icelandic family sagas	0
How to make a book: Alfredian prefaces in theory and practice	0
Watching the Well-Governed City: painting and surveillance in Trecento Siena	0
About the cover	0
The Torrijos ceiling: Manufacturing peculiarities of the V&A ceiling	0
Multilingual worlds in al-Ḥarīrī’s monolingual maqāmāt: A study of al-Maqāma ar-raqṭāʾ (the spotted)	0
Dido and Laura in Carthage: White purity, epidermal race, and sexual violence in Petrarch’s Africa	0
‘Come on Tiger’: An exploration into the political and ecological challenges for tigers in premodern and modern-day Korea	0
Medieval and modern race-thinking in Frank Yerby’s The Saracen Blade	0
Correction: The intersection of medieval studies and Indigenous studies: A Norse-Saami case study	0
Antisemitism, dance, and the law in the late medieval Holy Roman Empire	0
Afterword: Motions of global periodization	0
Sensuous reading in the Legatus divinae pietatis	0
Singing of and with the Other: Flamenco and the politics of pastoralism in medieval Iberia	0
An alchemy of medieval Honduras	0
Demolition due to sale: The international market in Spanish ceilings in the twentieth century	0
Are there limits to globalising the medieval?	0
Hearkening to the 'voice' of Teika: Authors and readers of poetry treatise forgeries in medieval Japan	0
The Gender of Magic: Constructions of nonbinary gender categories in Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan	0

Praying by hand: meditations on reading with feeling in late medieval England	0
About the Cover	0
Process Essay. ‘A Feather on the breath of God’: Medieval legacies in modern choreography	0
Gut feelings: On the chansons de geste's visceral aesthetic	0
Love poetry as social practice: On the function of medieval Sicilian love lyric in Arabic and Italian	0
On stone, storms, and seismic tremors: ecologies of representation in medieval India	0
Correction to: Dancing the Kleptocene	0
Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall	0
Correction to: Encountering the environmental uncanny in Su Shi’s Rhapsodies on the Red Cliff: An ecocritical parable in text and image	0
The Ballet of the Bombs: Isherwood’s camp remake of Dante’s rota of the Sodomites	0
Disappearing acts: What Buddhist tree-icons might tell us	0
In search of lost elsewheres: Medievalism today	0
Medieval re-creation and translation in Edwin Morgan and Derek Jarman’s archives: A dialogue	0
Juridical dread and the self-disciplining subject	0
Islamicate fictionalities and transcultural inter/connections	0
Significant geographies of the Middle Ages: Cluster introduction	0
Coda: Interview with Charlotte Ewart	0
Playing the Victim: Mockery, compassion, and racialization in premodern English Buffeting plays	0
‘…The enemy is close and in this sad story, Ximena is the Cid’: Reading The Moor’s Last Sigh in light of Salman Rushdie’s sources	0
“What might a journal be?” Reflections from the postmedieval editorial board	0
From the Golden Age to the Kali Age: The evolution of the Qissa/Romance genre in South Asia	0
Breath, bodies, and sacred text: Thinking about recitation with al-Ghazālī and Kūkai	0
‘Each way means loneliness—and communion’: reading anchoritic literature with T.S. Eliot	0
Approaching Islamicate fictionalities	0
Han Shan’s reclusion: From quasi-homelessness to ultra-homelessness	0
Migrants shaping Europe, past and present: A roundtable	0
The intersection of medieval studies and Indigenous studies: A Norse-Saami case study	0
Osbert of Clare and the reforging of Westminster Abbey’s past	0
Fictitious waters: Ottoman marvels, fiction, and gender	0
Hic sunt dracones: Eastern Europe in the study of the Middle Ages	0
Chronologies of the animal turn	0
About the cover	0
‘I’m on the dark side of the road’: Bob Dylan, William Langland, and being already gone	0
Ecocodicology	0
Memory and modernity: The functions of architectural adaptability in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian Peninsula	0
Narration as Raumschach: Kalila and Dimna in time, space and languages	0
Forging the medieval amidst loss: The Public Record Office of Ireland and Ireland’s medieval history	0
Life in the mountains: The encyclopaedic perspective of Liu Xiaobiao’s ‘Treatise on Withdrawing to the Mountains of Jinhua’	0
Medieval sanctuary, gothic entrapment, and the fugitive self in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad	0
Structural configuration of the Spanish medieval ceiling of the V&A Museum: An image essay	0
Multimedia, agency, and subjectivity: Rumi, ‘Aṭṭār, and Hegel’s Orientalist sublime	0
Design and composition details of the mocárabes of the Torrijos ceiling at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: An image essay	0
Speluncar slumber and the medieval time traveler: Unearthing the imagined cave of the Old English Seven Sleepers	0
Of glass, stone, shell, and metal: Ecologies of beads in medieval and post-medieval West Africa	0
‘This world is like a water-wheel’: Alexander and Darius in the mirror	0
Shards in hand: crystal dwelling as ecology	0
Motivated fictionality: Worldbuilding and The Thousand and One Nights	0
Multilingual poetics in Arabic and Persian Maqāmāt: Between al-taṣannu‘ andsabk	0
Spacetime, connectivity, multipolarity, juxtaposition	0
Dance, Institution, Abolition	0
Trans* & gender identity in the premodern Mediterranean	0
Creative practice as research in Old Norse-Icelandic studies: Ancillary characters as storytellers	0
Cases of divergence between Persian and Arabic poetics: An analysis of the underlying characteristics of particularly Persian stylistic techniques addressed by Vaṭvāṭ (d.1182)	0
Out of sight, but not out of mind: A Middle Dutch religious allegory as guide towards the absent Christ	0
Forging the medieval on Wikipedia	0
Editors’ introduction: Crafting medieval Spain	0
Introduction: Amputation and warfare in the eleventh century: absence, sensation, and embodiment	0
Dream narratives and metafictionality in the Persian Jog Bāsisht	0
Marco Polo in trans-regional perspective	0
Derek Jarman’s medieval blood: Queer devotion, affective medicine, and the AIDS Crisis	0
In the Name of Shirāz: The stone mosques of the East African coast reconsidered	0
Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible	0
About the cover	0
What might a journal be?	0
Anthologizing the medieval senses: a methodological overview	0
Ecology in seventeenth-century Japan: the ‘Great Way’ of Kumazawa Banzan	0
Multilingualism from the perspective of the medieval Islamic vision of language	0
About the cover	0
‘The pure springs of English literature’: Percy MacKaye’s eugenic medievalism	0
Ethnonationalism and medievalism: reading affective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’ today with the discovery of Sutton Hoo	0
Tolkien, fandom, critique, and ‘critical joy’: A conversation	0
About the Cover	0
Skulls, worms, and angels: Teaching ritual through the grave in an Aljamiado Ḥadīth	0
Correction to: ‘I’m on the dark side of the road’: Bob Dylan, William Langland, and being already gone	0