Publication: Speculum, Vol. 89, issue 2 (April 2014)

Speculum, published quarterly since 1926, was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages, a period ranging from 500 to 1500. It is open to contributions in all fields studying this era. Its primary emphasis is on Western Europe, but Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Slavic studies are also included.  The journal publishes over a thousand pages a year of articles and book reviews, reaches an international audience, and is the most widely distributed journal of medieval studies.

– Gold Coinage and Its Use in the Post-Roman West, Rory Naismith

– “Knowledge Will Be Manifold”: Daniel 12.4 and the Idea of Intellectual Progress in the Middle Ages, J.R. Webb

– Early-Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs and the Maternal Language of Clerical Authority, Hannah W. Mattis

– In Praise of the Too-Clement Emperor: The Problem of Forgiveness in the Astronomer’s Vita Hludowici imperatoris, Andrew J. Romig

– Neither Bewitched nor Beguiled: Philip Augustus’s Alleged Impotence and Innocent III’s Response, Constance M. Rousseau

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