About the Journal

Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC) is the journal of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) at The Queen's College in the University of Oxford. The journal is committed to publishing two issues per year, including one special issue dedicated to a specific research question. The journal welcomes articles that are at once specialised and interdisciplinary, exploring how knowledge and meaning are shaped and sustained by material conditions, past and present. It encourages submissions and creative ideas from authors willing to explore the benefits of digital presentation of research.

The journal aims to be a platform for international researchers to engage in close dialogue across their areas of expertise and inform each other about approaches and theories developed in their various subject areas. It seeks to generate discussions that cross subject boundaries and contribute to the theoretical understanding of material text cultures and their impact on knowledge production in global literate societies. With its multidisciplinary approach, crossing traditional academic divisions, MTC endeavours to explore the deep structures of human behaviour in material knowledge production.

MTC is an open access journal, and all content is freely available under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means, in particular, that anyone can freely read, copy, download, translate, and redistribute articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the authors.

Registered subscribers to MTC become Associate Members of CMTC. Associate Members are entitled to propose workshops and conferences related to pre-modern manuscript and epigraphic studies that will be hosted at CMTC. In addition, Associate Members can propose new themes for upcoming issues of MTC and nominate themselves as issue editors.

Associate Membership subscriptions to CMTC and back issues of MTC are available for purchase at the University of Oxford Online Store.