Mediaeval Sophia. Studies and researches on the Middle Ages

Mediaeval Sophia. Studies and researches on the Middle Ages is the open access e-journal of the Officina di Studi Mediaevali of Palermo. It was founded by Alessandro Musco in 2007 and since 2015 (number 17) we publish one issue a year.

The Medieval Sophia’s intellectual property belongs to the Officina di Studi Medievali that has started a project based on the use of new publishing technologies, a tool in step with the times, that is managed in an agile way and has a wide international circulation.

Mediaeval Sophia’s approach is consistent with the more than thirty years of scientific, cultural, educational and editorial commitment of the Officina di Studi Medievali, that is, a noticeable interest in the connections between the different traditions of medieval culture in the Mediterranean areas, in a chronological period between the Early Middle Ages and the 15th century.

In the section Studia, we publish essays that concern medieval topics, equipped by abstracts and keywords, in the language of the essay and in English, and by a short biography of the author. In the section Focus, we give space to essays that analyse a single theme. In the end, the section Lecturae offers reviews of the most recent publications.

All the issues of Mediaeval Sophia can be consulted and downloaded freely. The journal has an International Scientific Committee. Both the articles in the Studia section and those in the Focus section undergo double-blind evaluation by two expert referees.

The journal is open to contributions both from academics who work in national and international universities and research centres, and from young scholars, especially PhDs and postdocs, in the belief that only a free and open confrontation of opinions and a cooperation without prejudice can bring about the advancement of knowledge, and mark new and useful results in research.

In this spirit, we wish you all good navigation!

The Editorial Staff

Director
Patrizia Sardina (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)

Assistant Director
Daniela Santoro (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)

Editorial Board
Rosanna Alaggio (Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy)
Étienne Doublier (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Joanna Drell (University of Richmond, Virginia, USA)
Laura Gaffuri (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
Giovanni Licata (Università degli Studi La Sapienza di Roma, Italy)
Salvatore Marino (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Valerio Napoli (Officina di Studi Medievali di Palermo, Italy)
Mohamed Ouerfelli (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
Berardo Pio (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
Mariangela Rapetti (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)
Maria Antonietta Russo (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
Monica Santangelo (Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli, Italy)
Francesca Stroppa (Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy)

Editorial Office
Silvia Keres Lo Porto (Officina di Studi Medievali di Palermo, Italy)
Giuliana Musotto (Officina di Studi Medievali di Palermo, Italy)

Editorial graphich and Web Designer Developer
Alberto Musco (Officina di Studi Medievali di Palermo, Italy)

Scientific Committee of the journal
David Abulafia (University of Cambridge, UK)
Maria Pia Alberzoni (Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy)
Cristina Andenna (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
Jaume Aurell (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Claudio Azzara (Università di Salerno, Italy)
Brian Aivars Catlos (University of Colorado, USA)
Gabriele Archetti (Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy)
Barbara Bombi (University of Kent, UK)
Henri Bresc (Paris X Nanterre – CHSCO, France)
Gemma Colesanti (CNR di Napoli, Italy)
Pietro Corrao (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
Alfio Cortonesi (Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy)
Roberto Delle Donne  (Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II, Italy)
Salvatore Fodale (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
Franco Franceschi (Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy)
Amalia Galdi (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Blanca Garí (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Michel Hébert (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Roberto Lambertini (Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy)
Umberto Longo (Università degli Studi La Sapienza di Roma, Italy)
Vito Loré (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy)
Marina Montesano (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)
Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
Jochen Johrendt (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
Francesco Panarelli (Università della Basilicata, Italy)
Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro (CSIC di Madrid, Spagna)
Gabriella Piccinni (Università di Siena, Italia)
Daniel Piñol Alabart (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain)
Daniela Rando (Università di Pavia, Italy)
Flocel Sabaté (Universitat de Lleida, Spain)
Eleni Sakellariou (University of Crete, Greek)
Roser Salicrú i Lluch (IMF – CSIC Barcelona, Spain)
Francesco Senatore (Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II, Italy)
Francesco Paolo Tocco (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)
Sergio Tognetti (Università degli Studi di cagliari, Italia)
M. Elisa Varela-Rodríguez (Universitat de Girona, Spain)

The annual issue of the journal is uploaded online in December

ISSN: 1970-1950
Authorization from the Court of Palermo no. 17, dated 20/06/2005
Registration U.S.P.I. n. 1503 (2006)

© 2006 - Officina di Studi Medievali

The Officina is enrolled in the Registro degli Operatori di Comunicazione (ROC) no. 582, dated 29/08/2001.
Foundation year 1980- Non-profit Cultural Association established by notarial deed dated 14/01/1980 (Repertory no. 189790- Collection no. 14498). The Officina is also a Publishing House regularly enrolled in the C.C.I.A.A. of Palermo since 29/09/1999 with no. 216587, in the Law Court of Palermo since 25/02/1982 with no. 09/82, in the National Register of Press and Publishing since 29/05/1985 with no. 1583 (Vol. 16- Fol. 657), in the Register of Communication Operators (R.O.C.) since 29/08/2001 with no. 582, and in the Catalogue of the National Research Register since 10/02/2010 with no. 59959SNJ.

How to quote Mediaeval Sophia

Author, Title, in «Mediaeval Sophia» number (year), URL (date of login)

Example:
Giuliana Musotto, Il peccato nel Medioevo latino. Le Quaestiones disputatae De traductione humanae naturae a primo parente di Nicola di Ockham, in «Mediaeval Sophia» 1 (2007), pp. 56-68.
http://www.mediaevalsophia.net/studia/Musotto_PeccatoOriginale.pdf (ultimo accesso: 10/08/2007).