CALL for PAPERS for the next issues 15/1, and 15/2.

Monographic theme of the issue # 16/1 (2027-1)

Multifaceted Middle Ages: Dialogue and Conflict Between Different Cultures

Editor: José María Salvador-González

Deadline:  Octuber 31, 2026

The Middle Ages, in the Western world, was a period of intense interaction between Christian, Islamic, and Jewish cultures.

This interaction often took the form of respectful dialogue and determined cooperation in the fields of philosophical thought and scientific knowledge. Of particular note are the significant Arab contributions to philosophy, thanks to their translations of texts by Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, who were previously little known in Europe. The close collaboration between these three cultures at the Toledo School of Translators, established around King Alfonso X the Wise, is exemplary in this regard. Arab culture also contributed significantly to Western science with its decisive discoveries, especially in mathematics, chemistry, medicine, physics, and astronomy.

However, the interaction between these three cultures frequently took the form of conflict and violent confrontation, generally for religious and political reasons related to the control of territory and natural resources.

The academic journal De Medio Aevo thus offers its monographic issue 16(1) as a suitable platform to investigate and debate the complex relationships of dialogue/conflict between diverse cultures that coexisted in the same geographical space throughout the Middle Ages.

Monographic theme of the issue # 16/2 (2027-2)

Ratio et Fides. Dialectical tension between reason and faith in the Middle Ages

Guest Editor: Vicente Llamas-Roig

Deadline: April 30, 2027

The Middle Ages, especially in the Western Christian world, were a period in which rational analysis and religious beliefs were in constant dialectical interaction. For some, the two approaches were incompatible, leading them to declare a preference for one over the other. On the opposite side, various thinkers considered both operational options reconcilable: reason and faith, disparate in their mental disposition, could coexist harmoniously. From this second perspective, a devout follower of Plato or Aristotle, a meticulous mathematician, or a seasoned astronomer, accustomed to “saving the phenomena” at all costs, could simultaneously be a fervent believer, accommodating the mysteries of Christianity. Augustine's original proposal of a relational circularity between faith and reason opens the debate over the prevalence of one over the other, a constant theme in Western thought of the period.

In this vein, the journal De Medio Aevo presents this new monographic issue, 16(2), as a suitable platform for presenting research and debating the multiple and complex forms of Ratio-Fides confrontation/collaboration in the Western Middle Ages.