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The Medieval Globe explores the modes of communication, materials of exchange, and myriad interconnections among regions, communities, and individuals in an era central to human history.It promotes scholarship in three related areas of study:the direct and indirect means by which peoples, goods, and ideas came into contactthe deep roots of global developmentsthe ways in which perceptions of the medieval past have been (and are) constructed around the world.The Medieval Globe (TMG) is a peer-reviewed journal to be launched in 2014 with a special issue on the Black Death as a global pandemic.  It will be published biannually in both print and digital formats. Thematic issues will alternate with volumes of selected articles submitted for consideration on a rolling basis.  Future thematic issues might address such topics as: pilgrimage, diasporas, race and racializing technologies, maritime cultures and ports-of-call, piracy and crime, knowledge networks, markets and consumerism, entertainment, spoils and spolia, global localities, comparative cosmographies, sites of translation and acculturation, slavery and social mobility.