Call for Articles: Renaissance and Renaissances in European History
Deadline: September 1, 2025
The articles should be sent to voxmediiaevi@gmail.com
Since the end of the 19th century, the term “Renaissance” has been associated not only with the XV-XVI centuries in Italy, but also with a paradigm shift that broke with medieval religious thinking and placed a new focus on humanism. Throughout the 20th century, scholars expanded the concept to include the Byzantine and medieval court renaissances. Historical and methodological questions continue to be an important part of Renaissance studies, highlighting the ongoing development and open-mindedness of this field.
Vox Medii Ævi welcomes submissions on the Renaissance in European history on the following range of topics:
- Renaissance, Renewal, Renaissances: chronological, geographical and historiographical issues of research;
- Methodological approaches to the study of mediaeval renaissance;
- “Intellectuals” of the Middle Ages and Renaissance humanists: common and different;
- The influence of the ancient and Arabic heritage on the renaissances of Latin Europe;
- History of the Byzantine renaissances: origins and features;
- Princely and royal courts as centres of medieval renaissance;
- Humanists and humanist circles of Northern Europe in the 14th-16th centuries in the context of national religious and reform movements;
- Humanist education in cities, universities and princely courts;
- Humanism in the age of the Reformation: conflicts and interactions;
- Renaissances in Eastern Europe;
- Renaissance literacy: the teachings of rhetoric, grammar, and translation and their practical applications.
In addition, our journal welcomes reviews of books on the topic published within the last three years, as well as translations of key texts on the history of the European Renaissance from foreign languages into Russian and from Russian into English. All texts selected for translation must be approved by the editorial committee in advance.