This issue includes two special dossiers. A reflexion about the situations and the evolutions of the Border between Islam and Christendom, as unstable geopolitical reality or ideological and discursive construction.

This dossier focuses on the "laboratory" of Nuto Revelli (1919-2004), based on an analysis of the author's texts, research, interviews, and archives, and examines the different phases in the development of his thinking and his writing practices.

This volume brings together papers presented on November 8 and 9, 2022, at the University of Lleida, during a meeting organized in tribute to Ezio Pellizer. The contributions focus on the treatment of myths in Hellenistic poetry and imperial Greek literature.

This volume brings together studies that address various aspects of debate literature, such as its possible origins, the different textual traditions in which it is embedded, and, ultimately, the set of characteristics that define it as a distinct genre.

This issue includes a thematic dossier entitled 'Fictiologies médiévales', comprising 6 unpublished articles that analyse the status of fiction in medieval Castilian textual production (particularly in Alfonso X) and the links between 'reality' and 'fiction'.

This issue examines the link between the emergence of a "science" of folklore in Southern Italy and the theorisation of the “Southern Question” after unification. From romantic demology to 1950's ethnology, the South is sometimes associated with a timeless idea of the “people”, sometimes with a dynamic history of subaltern groups.

This volume focuses on the literary role of women at court between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It offers a broad overview of female characters, especially in books of chivalry, as well as their importance in convent literature and as dedicatees of texts.