Mary Catherine O’Connor explores the role of translated literature in introducing ideas of courtliness and chivalry but also in fostering a shared European literary culture at the multi-cultural and cosmopolitan court of King Hákon Hákonarson in Bergen in the thirteenth century.

Janet E. Kay, Jordan Wilson, and Rachel Singer chat about their article "Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic" (Speculum 100.2).

Larisa Grollemond and Kelin Michael discuss the process of bringing the Book of Marvels to a general audience.