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Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website. https://ceraejournal.com

Call For Papers: IMC Leeds 2027 Constructing Selves, Constructing Communities What made a medieval self? Augustine’s noverim me, noverim te (“May I know myself; may I know You”) suggests that knowing oneself depended upon relationships with both God and other people. Taking this insight alongside Paul Ricoeur’s distinction between idem (sameness) and ipse (selfhood), this panel asks how medieval people negotiated selfhood through their relationships with communities, institutions, and the divine. This panel aims to explore how selves and communities were imagined, enacted, negotiated, and transformed through material culture, texts, language, and social practice. We are particularly interested in the significance of belonging, memory, and authority in shaping both individual and collective experience. Papers may consider, among other themes: • Communities of belonging: • Embodied and material expressions of selfhood • Texts, rituals, and discourse: how rhetoric, narrative, images, and language mediated relationships between individuals, communities, and the divine. • Authority, spaces and social order: how hierarchy, sacred or social spaces, exclusion, and reputation structured medieval selves and communities. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches from across medieval studies. We invite submissions of a 150–250 word abstract, accompanied by: a paper title; a brief personal biography including your current institutional affiliation (if any) and academic title (if any); your full contact details (email and phone); any equipment/accessibility requirements and scheduling requests; and whether you intend to participate in person or virtually. Submissions must be sent to ceraejournal@gmail.com by 11:59 PM (GMT) Monday 7 September 2026. All submissions will be reviewed by the Ceræ Committee. Decisions will be communicated to all applicants within 5 days of the deadline.
Detail of Temperance from Lorezetti's Allegory of Good Government
A graphic requesting paper proposals for the hybrid panel Learning, Knowledge and Awareness from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern III: Women's Experiential and Intellectual Paradigms of Awareness at #IMC2025, sponsored by CERÆ. Abstracts should be sent to ceraejournal@gmail.com before June 4. Visit tinyurl.com/cerae25 for more information. The graphic is illustrated with a picture of Christine de Pizan.
A medieval manuscript image of the Three Magi lying on a bed under a blue blanket, an angel approaching from the top right corner holding a scroll. The Star of Bethlehem shines red above their heads. Image credit: Dream of the Three Magi, c. 1020. Gospels, Anon; London BL Royal 1 D X, fol-2v.
An image of William Shakespeare, produced with a chiaroscuro effect to suggest ghosts or spirits
Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210: a medieval manuscript image of a green doglike creature in a pastoral setting, wrapping its open mouth around a sun that appears to bleed in its jaws
Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210: a medieval manuscript image of a green doglike creature in a pastoral setting, wrapping its open mouth around a sun that appears to bleed sunlight into its jaws
Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210
Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210
Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210
Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210