«Schede Medievali»
Rassegna dell’Officina di Studi Medievali

It was a six-monthly periodical until issue 38 of 2000 and then annual from 2001, with the purpose of publishing essays, studies and researches on various spheres of medieval knowledge. It also aims to bring together critical readings, critiques and “notes” on volumes and researches published as well as on conferences, seminars and study meetings.
It further offers bibliographical updates on single and specific study aspects and examines in detail several publications assimilable from a thematic point of view, that is to say ones inspired by a similar publishing purpose.
The periodical is made up of different sections: Contributions and annotations brings together the texts of researches promoted by Officina di Studi Medievali or at any rate realized with its coordination. Critiques and reviews of volumes, essays and studies also offer major bibliographical updating.
Since 1980 over 40 issues of the magazine have been published with the collaboration of a big number of Italian and other experts covering disciplinary areas referring to the vast sphere of medieval culture.

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«Mediaeval Sophia»
Studi e ricerche sui saperi medievali

«Mediaeval Sophia». Studi e ricerche sui saperi medievali (www.mediaevalsophia.net) was born of two experiences in the last twenty-five years and more: one built up around the publications and series of Officina di Studi Medievali and the other built up around the journal Schede Medievali. Rassegna dell’Officina di Studi Medievali, whose first issue was published in 1981.«Mediaeval Sophia» backs up the traditional paper journal as a new cultural tool, more in line with the times, more agile in its management and with a larger international circulation: a first initiative centring on the use of the new publishing technologies which we are planning to follow up with other initiatives. The format and layout of «Mediaeval Sophia», which is exclusively an e-Review and has had all the necessary formal recognitions, are strongly rooted in over a quarter of a century of academic, cultural, training and publishing commitment of the team of Officina di Studi Medievali: there is a clear multidisciplinary approach, and a convinced intercultural attitude to the various geographical and linguistic traditions of medieval forms of knowledge, special attention being paid to the Mediterranean areas in the Middle Ages, seen as having a temporal extension going from the late ancient and early Christian phase to the 15th century and beyond, depending on the disciplinary sphere. These are the basic strategies that can also clearly be seen looking through the Sections into which the single issues of Mediaeval Sophia are normally divided (it appears in two yearly issues, in July and December). «Mediaeval Sophia», compared to Schede Medievali – which in this connection already underwent significant changes from issue 44/2006 – accentuates the international approach. It is published in all the most important European languages (French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German) and in Latin. Each issue of «Mediaeval Sophia», from the cultural, academic and publishing point of view, down to its being put online, is directly managed inside the Officina di Studi Medievali by the editorial staff. On average it corresponds to around 300 traditional pages and in this first phase is being put online free of charge. When the new issue comes out, the previous ones are always available online. From a strictly technical point of view the consultation system is simple. To enter the site you only have to register by filling out the special form: you just indicate your personal reference data and email address. After you log in, you can surf freely. The contents of the various sections can be seen and downloaded in PDF format.In the Fabrica section you find the sections into which the cultural, training, academic and publishing work of Officina di Studi Medievali is traditionally divided: Byzantina, Federiciana, Franciscana, Glossae, OSM/OR-Oriental Studies, OSM/IL-Itinera Lulliana, Traditio and Vivarium. A lot of space is devoted in each issue to the section Lecturae, which contains numerous readings, critiques, and reviews of publications that have appeared in the last few years, and to the section Armarium, which also contains information on all the texts (volumes, periodicals and journals) acquired by Officina di Studi Medievali for readers.