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Speculum Spotlight: East–West Encounters in the 14th Century: John of Marignolli and the "Tribute" Horse
Loren Cantrell interviews Nancy Wu about her article in Speculum 100:4, "East–West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century: John of Marignolli and the 'Tribute' Horse."
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Oct 11 min read


Speculum Spotlight: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, & Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire (Fleming, Leggett, & Correa-Reyes)
Listen now! In this episode, Robin Fleming and Sam Leggett discuss their work on an early fifth-century cemetery in the English village...
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Jul 12 min read


Speculum Spotlight: Burial Archaeology and the First Pandemic (Kay, Wilson, Singer, & O'Mara)
Janet E. Kay, Jordan Wilson, and Rachel Singer chat about their article "Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic" (Speculum 100.2).
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Apr 11 min read


Speculum Spotlight: The Medieval Academy of America Centennial Issue (Beattie, Betancourt, & Mallette)
In this episode, Will Beattie speaks with the co-editors of a special issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (100.1).
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Jan 42 min read


Speculum Spotlight: The Textual Cult of Richard Rolle: Writing in Contemplation in Later Medieval England (Albin, KrAEBEL, Jansen, & Correa-Reyes)
Listen to this episode! Listen to the editors of the essay cluster on the textual cult of Richard Rolle discuss Rolle's life, works, and...
mmapodcast1
Oct 1, 20242 min read


Speculum Spotlight: “Ai flores, ai flores do verde pino": The Ecopoetics of the Galician-Portuguese Pine Forest (Mahler, Jansen, & Quigley)
Listen to this episode! Denis of Portugal’s “Ai flores, ai flores do verde pino” [Oh flowers, oh flowers of the green pine] is the...
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Jul 1, 20242 min read


Speculum Spotlight: Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages (Whitaker, Otaño Gracia, Fauvelle, Jansen, & Correa-Reyes, Featuring Matthews, Oehme, Price, Zhang, Ramos, Choe, & Ilko)
Listen to this episode! What goes into editing a special issue of a journal? How does the framework of race and race thinking inform...
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Apr 1, 20243 min read


Speculum Spotlight: The Cerne Giant in its Early Medieval Context (Morcom, Gittos, Jansen, & Beattie)
Listen to this episode! The Cerne Abbas giant is a well-known figure cut into the chalk of a hillside in Dorset. Recent archaeological...
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Jan 1, 20242 min read


Speculum Spotlight: Jewelry & People in the Cemetery of Parapotamos Epiros (Makris, Jansen & O'Mara)
Jewelry reflecting the tastes, needs, and practices of past users across all social strata constitutes one of the most representative...
Logan Quigley
Oct 11, 20232 min read


Speculum Spotlight: Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages (Charmaille, Jansen, & Quigley)
This article, “Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages, 500 to 1300,” gathers evidence of a distinct strand of writing in Western...
Logan Quigley
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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