In this episode, Sarah McNamer speaks with MMA producer Reed O’Mara about one of the most playful and beloved medieval manuscripts of all time, the Bodley Alexander. Through careful analysis of the imagery both obvious and hidden in this manuscript, McNamer suggests that its intended owner was not a king, as has been previously suggested, but rather a young prince.

In this episode, producer Loren Cantrell chats with Stanford professor Fiona Griffiths about her latest contribution to Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, in which Griffiths revisits the famously complex relationship between Heloise and Abelard.

Listen now! In this episode we sit down with the five editors of Speculations, the centennial issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Comprising 60 short essays that speculate about the possible futures of medieval studies, this issue represents an attempt to disrupt disciplinarity by foregrounding perspectives, methodologies, and geographies from a variety of fields from medieval studies. Born from the understanding that the future of medieval studies depends on im

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."