Daily Archives: July 3, 2023

Greetings from the Editor’s desk at Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Since the new issue of Speculum, July 98/3 (2023), will soon post online and land in your mailboxes, I take this opportunity to preview the riches we have in … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Medieval Academy Books no. 118, The Cartulary of Prémontré by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (University of Toronto Press, 2023). We are actively soliciting manuscripts for future publication in the series. … Continue reading →

If you’re going to be at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, please join us on Tuesday, 4 July, 19.00-20.00 (Session 901) for the Annual Medieval Academy of America Lecture, “Somatic Entanglements,” to be delivered by Prof. Elina Gertsman (Department … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the inaugural Fellows Research Awards. Supported entirely by donations from the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, the Fellows Fund will support two annual awards for members of the Medieval Academy who do … Continue reading →

Interested in film representations of the Middle Ages? Out now, the next episode of the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast: “The Filmmaker, the Anchorite, & Their Collaboration Across Time”.

The next meeting of the Race & Gender Working Group will take place on August 18, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm EST. Mohamad Ballan (History, Stony Brook University) will lead a discussion of “Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatị̄b (d. 1374) and … Continue reading →

The 2023 Inclusivity & Diversity Subvention has been awarded to Manchester University Press to support the publication of Wan-Chuan Kao’s monograph White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages. We are very pleased to support the publication of this important work.

Lori Jones (Univ. of Ottawa) recently received this year’s Margaret Wade Labarge Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Society of Medievalists for the best book published by a Canadian medievalist, for her book Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas About Plague … Continue reading →