The University of Auckland’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEDEMS) is happy to announce the upcoming appearance of a special journal issue on “Understanding Emotions in the Middle Ages” in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming late 2012. The issue has been edited by Associate Professor Tracy Adams of the University of Auckland and originated in the eleventh annual MEDEMS colloquium which took place over the weekend of April 16-17, 2011. The conference attracted speakers from New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, England and the USA, who gathered in Auckland to discuss “Devotion and Emotion in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.”

This issue is the first of what we hope to be a long series of collaborative on-line projects produced by MEDEMS. Papers from the conference have been brought together in what will be just the second issue of the new journal. Digital Philology is intended as a scholarly venue where “global and interdisciplinary perspective pushes traditional national and temporal boundaries” and which represents the “first such publication linking peer-reviewed research and scholarship with digital libraries of medieval manuscripts”. Digital Philology will be published twice a year and is intended to include “scholarly essays, manuscript studies, and reviews of relevant resources such as websites, digital projects, and books.”

The journal’s website is: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/