Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The Medieval Academy of America invites submissions for the following prizes to be awarded at the 2024 MAA Annual Meeting. The Medieval Academy warmly encourages the nomination of publications written by scholars working beyond the tenure track as well as … Continue reading →

The next meeting of the Race & Gender Working Group will take place on Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm EST. Dr. Mohamad Ballan, Assistant Professor of History Stony Brook University A Discussion of his recent Speculum article “Borderland Anxieties: … Continue reading →

Virginia Blanton (Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work at the Ruusbroec Institute in Antwerp, researching English nuns who sought refuge in Catholic Flanders during the Reformation. Congratulations! If you have good news to … Continue reading →

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.