New Issue of Speculum

Publication News: New Issue of Speculum

The latest issue of Speculum is now available online, including articles by Christian C. Sahner on translation and history in Orosius and Augustine, Lisa Perfetti on the eroticizing poetics of medieval French crusaders, Andrew G. Miller on equestrian mutilation and masculinity in medieval England, Filip Van Tricht on Robert of Courtenay’s rule as emperor of Constantinople, and Michael Penman on the personal piety and devotions to Scottish saints and relics of Robert Bruce.

Also reviewed in the journal are:
– Janet Burton and Julie Kerr, The Cistercians in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011)
– Emma Dillon, The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260–1330 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
–  Kavita Mudan Finn, The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440–1627 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
– Michelle Karnes, Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
– Sherry C. M. Lindquist, ed., The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012)
– Henry Maguire, Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
– Nina Rowe, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
– Christine Sciacca, ed., Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300–1350 (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012)

See the journal at Cambridge Journals Online here.