Author Guidelines Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites submissions for original and engaging articles of approximately 5000–8000 words, varia of up to 3000 wor…

CERÆ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites submissions for hybrid panels at the Leeds International Medieval Conference 2026 (July 6-9) on the theme of Premodern Timeliness and Timelessness. Time is a construct with notoriously blurry definitions and boundaries. The artificiality of time can evoke anything from comforting nostalgia to worrying anachronism. Ceræ invites papers that deal with the unfocused and unreal aspects of premodern temporality, including but not limited to:

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Ceræ is proud to announce that the journal is once again sponsoring sessions at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. All three sessions are organised and moderated by our…

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Ceræ is proud to announce that the journal is once again sponsoring sessions at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. All three sessions are organised and moderated by our secretary and treasurer, Michele Seah - we are very grateful for her time and effort! The sessions are empaneled as Learning, Knowledge, And Awareness from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern.

Just over a fortnight ago, over the last weekend of April, the second annual Ceræ conference was conducted online with attendees and presenters from sixteen countries across eleven different timezones! Repeating our unique format from last year with a continuous single-stream over 32 hours, our presenters not only came from a multitude of institutions, but also represented the spectrum of career stage from distinguished professor to junior graduate student, and everyone in between.

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to bot…

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