Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Viator is published under the auspices of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and invites the submission of articles by scholars in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. We particularly welcome articles that integrate or synthesize disciplines.

Manuscripts should be submitted via our Manuscript Manager portal. Authors will need to create an account before proceeding to the submission page. The target length for an article is 8,000–13,000 words, including footnotes, although longer pieces are occasionally published. We ask that the body text be double-spaced in 12-point font with single-spaced footnotes in 10-point font. Submissions should be in English, include an abstract and keywords, and present original, previously unpublished scholarship that is not being considered elsewhere for publication. Authors should refer to chapter 14 of the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style for guidance on styling footnote citations. The Viator style guide can be consulted here (prospective authors should ignore the section on manuscript preparation, which applies to accepted papers only).

Articles deemed appropriate for Viator by the editorial board will be sent to two expert readers and, in some cases, may be sent to a third reader. We follow a policy of anonymous peer review, so we ask that submissions exclude the name of the author, acknowledgments, or any personal references that may give away the identity of the author. This information can be reincorporated into a paper once it has been accepted for publication. On the basis of the reader evaluations, the editor and managing editor will make a decision: Accept/Revisions Required/Revise and Resubmit/Reject. Authors who have published with us in the past must wait three years after the publication date of their first article before submitting a second article for consideration.

The current average decision time for article submissions is four months.

Viator now welcomes proposals for edited clusters of shorter articles (3,500–6,000 words each). To propose an edited cluster, complete the proposal form found here and email it to Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu) and Allison McCann (allisonmccann@humnet.ucla.edu). Due to the high level of interest in edited clusters, the next several volumes are already scheduled, so the timeline for new clusters is currently quite extended. We strongly encourage coeditorships.