Medieval Academy News Has Been Posted

The new Medieval Academy News is now available on the Medieval Academy website. Just follow this link.

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2011 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

Please click here for information regardingthe Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting in Tempe, 2011.

Deadline for submission is 15 May 2010.

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2011 Annual Meeting Proposal Submissions

Please click here for the Medieval Academy of America’s online proposal submission site.

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Discount on Cambridge Univ. Press Books for Medieval Academy Members

Members of the Medieval Academy in good standing may now order Cambridge University Press books at 20% discount.

Follow this online procedure for ordering:

* Go to http://www.cambridge.org
* When you place a book into the shopping basket, you will be prompted for a promotional code.
* The promotional code is: MAA2010
* When you enter this code and click on “apply discount,” the discounted price will show in the shopping basket.
* The 20% discount is available to Medieval Academy members in good standing.

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Current and Forthcoming Articles in Speculum

JANUARY 2010 (vol. 85, no. 1)

  • Jonathan P. Conant, “Europe and the African Cult of Saints, circa 350–900: An Essay in Mediterranean Communications”
  • G. Geltner, “Brethren Behaving Badly: A Deviant Approach to Medieval Antifraternalism”
  • Lee Manion, “The Loss of the Holy Land and Sir Isumbras: Literary Contributions to Fourteenth-Century Crusade Discourse”
  • Robert E. Lerner, “New Light on The Mirror of Simple Souls

APRIL 2010 (vol. 85, no. 2)

  • Samantha Kahn Herrick, “Studying Apostolic Hagiography: The Case of Fronto of Périgueux, Disciple of Christ”
  • Sandy Evans, “‘To Stanch Bleeding’: Longinus in Raoul de Cambrai and the Rebel Geste
  • Mary M. Paddock, “Rhetorical Species: A Case Study of Poetic Manifestations of Medieval Visual Culture”
  • Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, “The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims (c. 1347–1396): A Medieval Woman between Demons and Saints”

JULY 2010 (vol. 85, no. 3)

  • Robert K. Upchurch, “A Big Dog Barks: Ælfric of Eynsham’s Indictment of the English Pastorate and Witan
  • Nicholas L. Paul, “A Warlord’s Wisdom: Literacy and Propaganda at the Time of the First Crusade”
  • Elizabeth Eva Leach, “Music and Verbal Meaning: Machaut’s Polytextual Songs”
  • Curtis Gruenler, “How to Read Like a Fool: Riddle Contests and the Banquet of Conscience in Piers Plowman

Please visit our website for a list of current and forthcoming articles.

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