The Speculum Spotlight series runs in collaboration with Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Each episode of the series showcases work from the latest issue of the journal in conversation with an MMA team member. The episodes explore the subjects and themes of the Speculum articles as well as the writing and research process.

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Special thanks to the Speculum team for making these episodes possible and to Dr. Katherine Jansen and Dr. Barbara Newman for helping with this partnership.

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• Child's Play and the Provenance of the Bodley Alexander (July 2026)
  Sarah McNamer and Reed O'Mara

• The Marriage of a Cleric & Canon in Twelfth-Century Paris: Heloise, Abelard, and the Evolution of Clerical Celibacy (April 2026)
  Fiona Griffiths and Loren Cantrell

• A Conversation with the Editors of Speculations (January 2026)
  Mohammad Ballan, Cecily Hilsdale, Sierra Lomuto, Peggy McCracken, Katherine L. Jansen, Will Beattie, Loren Cantrell, and Jonathan Correa-Reyes

• East–West Encounters in the 14th Century: John of Marignolli and the "Tribute" Horse (October 2025)
  Nancy Wu and Loren Cantrell

• Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, & Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval
  Hampshire (July 2025)
  Robin Fleming, Sam Leggett, and Jonathan Correa-Reyes

• Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic (April 2025)
  Janet E. Kay, Jordan Wilson, Rachel Singer, and Reed O’Mara

• The Medieval Academy of America Centennial Issue (January 2025)
  Roland Betancourt, Karla Mallette, and Will Beattie

• "Ai flores, ai flores do verde pino": The Ecopoetics of the Galician-Portuguese Pine Forest (July 2024)
  Adam Mahler, Katherine L. Jansen, and Logan Quigley

• Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages (April 2024)
  Cord Whitaker, Nahir Otaño Gracia, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Katherine L. Jansen, Jonathan Correa-Reyes, Thai-Catherine Matthews, Annegret Oehme, Basil Arnould Price, Angela Zhang, Eduardo Ramos, Soojung Choe, Krisztina Ilko

• The Cerne Giant in its Early Medieval Context (January 2024)
  Thomas Morcom, Helen Gittos, Katherine L. Jansen, and Will Beattie

• Jewelry and People in the Byzantine Cemetery of Parapotamos, Epiros (October 2023)
  Georgios Makris, Katherine L. Jansen, and Reed O’Mara

• Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages, 500-130 (July 2023) 
  François•e Charmaille, Katherine L. Jansen, and Logan Quigley

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For more information about the Speculum Spotlight series, view our episode posts.