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MAA News – Medieval Academy Books no. 118

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Medieval Academy Books no. 118, The Cartulary of Prémontré by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (University of Toronto Press, 2023). We are actively soliciting manuscripts for future publication in the series. … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA@Leeds

If you’re going to be at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, please join us on Tuesday, 4 July, 19.00-20.00 (Session 901) for the Annual Medieval Academy of America Lecture, “Somatic Entanglements,” to be delivered by Prof. Elina Gertsman (Department … Continue reading

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MAA News – Fellows Research Awards

We are very pleased to announce the inaugural Fellows Research Awards. Supported entirely by donations from the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, the Fellows Fund will support two annual awards for members of the Medieval Academy who do … Continue reading

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MAA News – Latest Episode of Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast Now Available

Interested in film representations of the Middle Ages? Out now, the next episode of the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast: “The Filmmaker, the Anchorite, & Their Collaboration Across Time”.

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MAA News – Race and Gender Working Group

The next meeting of the Race & Gender Working Group will take place on August 18, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm EST. Mohamad Ballan (History, Stony Brook University) will lead a discussion of “Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatị̄b (d. 1374) and … Continue reading

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MAA News – Inclusivity & Diversity Publication Subvention Awarded

The 2023 Inclusivity & Diversity Subvention has been awarded to Manchester University Press to support the publication of Wan-Chuan Kao’s monograph White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages. We are very pleased to support the publication of this important work.

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Lori Jones (Univ. of Ottawa) recently received this year’s Margaret Wade Labarge Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Society of Medievalists for the best book published by a Canadian medievalist, for her book Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas About Plague … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Listing the World before the Age of Print

We all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to … Continue reading

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Call for Transcribers! The Saint Dunstan Transcription Challenge, July 21-August 4

The Saint Dunstan Transcription Challenge is a two week digital event taking place July 21- August 4, 2023. The life of Saint Dunstan is part of The South English Legendaries (SEL), a thirteenth-century collection of saints’ legends and biblical histories … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Seventeenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (ICMCL) Canterbury, UK, 7-13 July 2024

The 17th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, co-sponsored by ICMAC (Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio/International Society of Medieval Canon Law) will be based at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury, UK, between Sunday, 7 July, and Saturday, 13 … Continue reading

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