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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026): In Progress

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Cultural Arts Research and Development is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing research at the intersection of cultural studies, visual and media culture, and digital humanities. The journal provides a scholarly platform for critical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary investigations into cultural and creative practices across diverse historical and global contexts.

CARD focuses on how literature, art, and emerging digital forms both shape and reflect cultural representation, identity, and transformation in contemporary societies. It particularly encourages research that integrates traditional humanities scholarship with digital technologies, creative media, and evolving artistic practices.

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Medieval Mystical Narratives as Pre-Modern Utopias: New Conceptualizations of the Religious Experience by Mechthild von Magdeburg and Angela da Foligno


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Older research had traditionally assumed that the genre of utopias emerged only with Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), that is, at a time when the concept of the early modern nation had reached maturity and when intellectuals began to question the political status quo, looking for political and social alternatives in a future or projected world. Medievalists, however, have argued by now against thi... more

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