The RM project plans to be highly informative by offering texts, working tools and analyses of historiography, along the lines of present-day Italian research and teaching practices. This project aims to create an on-line community of medieval scholars unlimited by specialization, and to encourage institutions and individual scholars to experiment with the potential of new communication technologies.

RM will gradually develop integrated projects: it will be an electronic journal, a resource archive, a digital library, a live information board, a place for multi-media and cyber-space teaching experiments, a historical archive.

The project is divided into RM Journal, RM Repertory, RM Library, RM Calendar, RM Didactics, RM Memory. RM Journal contains debates, multi-text and multi-media experiments, reviews, working-paper proposals, up-to-date bibliographies and web-site information. RM Repertory is a structured and critical overview of the basic resources for a broad spectrum of Medieval Studies. It will present new material as it becomes available on-line. RM Library publishes on-line texts concerning fields and problems of current medieval research, becoming the first specialized library of this kind. RM Calendar supplies information on international meetings, seminars, congresses and historical or archaeological exhibitions in the field of Medieval Studies. RM Didactics presents teaching materials and experiences connected to the use of on-line multi-media technologies. RM Memory is a sort of dictionary of scholars, of past and present works, as well as of important current problems in historiography.

Two pages of  "services" complete the web site: RM Credits contains detailed information on the structure of the site, its promoters and contributors, as well as guidelines for the submission of proposals for publication. RM News highlights the new input of the different sections, to simplify consulting the site.

RM was started by a group of scholars who feel uneasy with the current fragmentation of historiography and research. Though it could be looked at as source of growth, this fragmentation may cause an increasing lack of communication among the various medievalist sectors, as well as between them and other fields of historical research. The promoters recognize the need for a critical re-evaluation of traditional research and the objectives of current activities. They also perceive the need to promote questions and critiques, discussions and analyses to bring about a re-thinking of the progress of Medieval Studies. RM hopes to intervene in the areas where the most interesting developments have occurred in Italian and international Medieval Studies of the last decades.

RM’s challenge is to experiment fully with the potential of all new telematic and cybernetic communication systems, mostly unexplored as a community initiative. The promoters want to change the general attitude of spectator towards the new technologies, encouraging an active involvement in the now undeniably global transformation of research practices and language.