Reti Medievali is a scientific initiative created in 1998 by a group of scholars from various Italian universities in response to the uneasiness caused by the fragmentation of historiographic languages and research subjects. A large number of historians subsequently gathered around the initiative, willing to discuss with their peers beyond their respective chronological, thematic and disciplinary specialisations, and to experiment with ways to apply information technology to research.
Reti Medievali E-book is the first Italian initiative for an integrated multiformat publication of essays and texts on medieval history. The scope of RM E-book is to encourage a different and larger diffusion of original contributions by providing unrestricted access via the Internet to them.