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| Mediterranean Historical Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Mediterranean Historical Review |
| Discipline | History |
| Language | English |
Mediterranean Historical Review is an academic journal dedicated to historical scholarship on the Mediterranean basin and its interactions with adjacent regions. The journal publishes research on political, social, cultural, economic, and religious histories spanning antiquity to the contemporary era. It serves as a forum connecting scholarship on North Africa, Southern Europe, the Levant, Anatolia, and the Maghreb with studies on trans-Mediterranean networks, diasporas, and empires.
Founded in the late 20th century amid renewed scholarly interest in regional and transregional frameworks, the journal emerged alongside initiatives at institutions such as University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Barcelona, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and University of Rome La Sapienza. Early contributors included historians associated with projects at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po, Birkbeck, University of London, and University of Florence. The journal’s origins intersect with conferences convened at King’s College London, Princeton University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and University College London. Founding editorial advisory boards featured scholars connected to the British Academy, Royal Historical Society, American Historical Association, Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the European Research Council.
The journal covers studies involving the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, Almohad Caliphate, Umayyad Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate, Carthage, Achaemenid Empire, and interactions with polities such as Venice, Genoa, Aragon, Castile, Mamluk Sultanate, Safavid Empire, and Habsburg Monarchy. Thematic emphases include maritime networks connecting Carthage and Alexandria; Mediterranean trade routes linking Antioch and Marseille; diasporic communities between Sephardic Jews of Toledo and Istanbul; pilgrimage and religious exchanges involving Jerusalem and Rome; and colonial encounters in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Crete, Cyprus, and Malta. It also publishes work on cultural transfers among figures and centers such as Homer, Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Augustus, Justinian I, Ibn Khaldun, Averroes, Maimonides, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Miguel de Cervantes, Alessandro Manzoni, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Editorial governance typically involves an editor-in-chief supported by an editorial board drawn from departments at University of Bologna, University of Naples Federico II, University of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Bogazici University, Ankara University, University of Tunis El Manar, and Cairo University. Peer review is double-blind or single-blind depending on policy revisions observed at outlets like Journal of Modern History, Speculum, American Journal of Archaeology, Past & Present, and Economic History Review. Ethical guidelines align with standards promoted by organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics, International Committee of Historical Sciences, and regional bodies including the Mediterranean Studies Association and the International Association of Mediterranean Studies.
The journal is issued periodically on schedules comparable to journals like The English Historical Review, French Historical Studies, Rivista Storica Italiana, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, and Hespéris-Tamuda. Publication formats include print and online editions, with distribution through academic presses akin to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Brill, and Palgrave Macmillan. Subscription and institutional access follow models used by JSTOR, Project MUSE, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and national libraries such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library.
The journal has featured influential articles addressing the Reconquista, the Crusades, the Fourth Crusade, the Black Death, Mediterranean environmental history around Mount Etna, maritime law traditions like the Consulate of the Sea, comparative studies involving the Trans-Saharan trade and the Silk Road, and analyses of migration during events such as the Greek War of Independence and the French conquest of Algeria. Special issues have focused on topics linked to symposia at Sorbonne University, University of Salamanca, University of Lisbon, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Trinity College Dublin, engaging contributors who have also published monographs with Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, and University of Chicago Press.
Abstracting and indexing coverage typically mirrors inclusion in databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, Historical Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Index Islamicus, MLA International Bibliography, and citation services operated by Clarivate Analytics. Library catalogs that list the journal include holdings at the Library of Congress, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and the National Library of Israel.
Scholarly reception places the journal among periodicals shaping debates alongside Mediterranean Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Mediterranean History, Journal of North African Studies, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. It is cited in works on comparative empire historiography concerning Habsburg Spain, Ottoman Anatolia, Napoleonic campaigns, the Italian Risorgimento, Spanish Empire, and postcolonial studies addressing Algerian War of Independence, Suez Crisis, and decolonization in Morocco and Tunisia. The journal’s articles inform research at research centers including the Center for Mediterranean Studies at Harvard University, the European University Institute, and the Institut de recherches et d'études sur la Méditerranée.
Category:History journals