Daily Archives: April 13, 2013

Your membership in the Medieval Academy provides you with a growing list of benefits, ranging from the print and digital editions of Speculum, to our MAA News, Conference Calendar and Blog to book discounts and our annual meeting. As important, … Continue reading →

The Freeman Foundation and its founder Weston Milliken have generously offered a $10,000 matching grant to the MAA to enable the Academy to award the John Boswell Dissertation Grant annually. To receive these funds, the MAA will need to raise … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides funding of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. Applications for subventions will be accepted only from the publisher … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy is pleased to announce the revival of the Speculum Books series. As many will recall, this series is devoted to reprinting distinguished and influential articles from past issues of Speculum in paperback collections. The series aims to … Continue reading →

Now that the digital version of Speculum, including the entire archive dating back to 1926, is available free to all members of the Medieval Academy, several members have already requested that we discontinue sending them print Speculum. This saves paper, printing, … Continue reading →

Saint Louis University has received a grant of $933,000 over two years from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of software development of a tool for the editing of scholarly works. MAA member James Ginther, PhD, Director of the … Continue reading →

The Fellows’ Elections for 2013 have added five new Fellows and three new Corresponding Fellows to the roster of scholars who have made notable contributions to furthering the stated purposes of the Academy, which are “to conduct, encourage, promote and … Continue reading →

The MAA elections closed on 15 January 2013. Almost 25 percent of the membership voted in the election, up 15% from last year and well above the average for learned society participation. Thank you! The ballots will be presented at … Continue reading →

  Occupy the Middle Ages   Maryanne Kowaleski      Peasants — a catch-all term for rural dwellers who made their living by farming land or raising livestock — represented about 80 to 90 percent of the population during the … Continue reading →