Category Archives: Letters to the Editor

A response to: Marco Di Branco. Review of Luigi Andrea Berto, Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes. Speculum 97/4 (2022): 1159-60. doi: 10.1086/721886.

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Chris

Author’s Response (Luigi Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University) Before presenting a qualitative answer to Marco Di Branco’s review of my book, it is necessary to present some data. The review is 986 words long. The first paragraph (86 words) briefly … Continue reading →

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A response to: Alexandra Johnston. Review of Thomas Meacham, The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler. Speculum 97/2 (2022): 541–43; doi: 10.1086/719138.

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Chris

A response to: Alexandra Johnston. Review of Thomas Meacham, The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler. Speculum 97/2 (2022): 541–43; doi: 10.1086/719138. Author’s Response (Thomas Meacham, Lake Superior State University) Alexandra Johnston has chosen … Continue reading →

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A response to: Oţa, Silviu. Review of Mária Vargha, “Hoards, Grave Goods, Jewellery: Objects in Hoards and in Burial Contexts during the Mongol Invasion of Central-Eastern Europe.”

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Chris

A response to: Oţa, Silviu. Review of Mária Vargha, Hoards, Grave Goods, Jewellery: Objects in Hoards and in Burial Contexts during the Mongol Invasion of Central-Eastern Europe. Speculum 92/4 [2017]: 1263–65; doi: 10.1086/693915. Author’s Response (Mária Vargha, University of Vienna) … Continue reading →

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A response to: West, Charles. “Monks Aristocrats, and Justice: Twelfth-Century Monastic Advocacy in a European Perspective.”

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Chris

A response to: West, Charles. “Monks Aristocrats, and Justice: Twelfth-Century Monastic Advocacy in a European Perspective.” Speculum 92/2 [2017]:372–404; doi:10.1086/690661. Reader’s Response: (Jonathan Lyon, Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Chicago) Dr. Charles West’s article in the April 2017 … Continue reading →

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Author’s Response to Speculum Review

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Chris

A response to: Berthelot, Anne. Review of Jean-Bernard Elzière, Le décodage des chansons de geste et des romans courtois (XIIe et XIIIe siècles). Speculum 91/2 [2016]: 490-92; doi: 10.1086/675648. The reviewer of my volume, Anne Berthelot, does not demonstrate in … Continue reading →

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Author’s Response to Speculum Review

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Chris

A response to: Robert, Aurélien. Review of Richard de Mediavilla, Questions disputées, tome VI, Questions 38–45, ed. and trans. Alain Boureau. Speculum 91/1 [2016]:248–50; doi:10.1086/684468. Author’s Response (Alain Boureau, École des hautes études en sciences sociales) En premier lieu, le … Continue reading →

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Author’s Response to Speculum Review

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Chris

A response to: Cantavella, Rosanna. Review of Text, Translation and Critical Interpretation of Joan Roís de Corella’s Tragèdia de Caldesa, by Peter Cocozzella.  Speculum 88.4 [2013]: 1074-6. Author’s Response (Peter Cocozzella, Professor Emeritus, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Binghamton … Continue reading →

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