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Papers

(The median citation count of Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
:Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual	7
:Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages	4
:The Byzantine Sinbad	4
Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl, eds., After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and Its Rulers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. viii, 327; 2 maps. $99.99. ISBN: 978-1-1088-4077-4.	4
:Agnès Sorel and the French Monarchy: History, Gallantry, and National Identity	3
:Medieval Philosophy	3
:Gratian the Theologian	2
:Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy: The Hucpoldings, c. 850–c. 1100	2
:Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World	2
:Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England	2
:Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000–1500	2
:Rayonnante humilité: L’amplitude de la lumière selon Bonaventure de Bagnoregio	2
:Thirteenth Century England XVII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2017	2
:John Lydgate, “The Dance of Death”, and Its Model, the French “Danse Macabre”.	2
Back Matter	1
:The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature	1
:Bündnisdynamik: Träger, Ziele und Mittel politischer Bünde im Mittelalter	1
:Biblical and Pastoral Poetry	1
Dukus Horant: The Codicology of a Mediterranean Epic	1
Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris, and Aurélien Robert, eds., Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (Brill’s Companions to	1
:Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute to Robin Netherton	1
: Thomas Aquinas on Virtue	1
:Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists	1
:A Companion to Boniface	1
:Addressing Injustice in the Medieval Body Politic	1

:Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture	1
:Two Lives of Saint Colette: With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette	1
:Beards and Texts: Images of Masculinity in Medieval German Literature	1
:Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England	1
:Myths and Magic in the Medieval Far North: Realities and Representations of a Region on the Edge of Europe	1
Dariusz Adamczyk, Monetarisierungsmomente, Kommerzialisierungszonen oder fiskalische Währungslandschaften?: Edelmetalle, Silberverteilungsnetzwerke und Gesellschaften in Ostmitteleuropa (800–1200)<	1
:Henry V, Holy Warrior: The Reign of a Medieval King in Context	1
: Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire	1
:The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe	1
:Early Medieval Winchester: Communities, Authority and Power in an Urban Space, c. 800–c. 1200	1
:Old English Runes: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Approaches and Methodologies with a Concise and Selected Guide to Terminologies	1
:Frankish Manuscripts: The Seventh to the Tenth Century	1
Front Matter	1
Reexamining the Evidence Regarding Adam Pinkhurst, Scrivener	1
:“La mort le roi Artu”: Roman du XIII siècle	1
François Foronda, Privauté, gouvernement et souveraineté: Castille, XIIIe–XIVe siècle. (Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez 78.) Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2020. Paper. Pp. 294; black-and-whit	1
“It Will Help Him Wonderfully”: Placebo and Meaning Responses in Early Medieval English Medicine	1
: “Les monstres des hommes”: Un inventaire critique de l’humanité au XIIIe siècle	1
Afterword: The Nightingale and the Cuckoo	1
:Astralabe: The Life and Times of the Son of Heloise and Abelard	1
:Sir John Fortescue and the Governance of England	0
:Death and Afterlife in the Pages of Gregory of Tours: Religion and Society in Late Antique Gaul	0
Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus: Henry Bate’s Latin Versions of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings. With English Translation and a Collation with the Hebrew and French Source Texts	0
2096	0
: Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures	0
The Groom’s Dowry: Reconsidering Gender and Dowry in Medieval Catalonia, 1250–1350	0
:Crestien’s “Guillaume D’Angleterre” / “William of England”: An Edition and Annotated Translation	0
:A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer	0
:The Templar Estates in Lincolnshire, 1185–1565: Agriculture and Economy	0
Recognition of Our Peer Reviewers	0
:Debating with Demons: Pedagogy and Materiality in Early English Literature	0
:Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English	0
:Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath	0
:After Alfred: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900–1150	0
Erratum	0
:Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book	0
:The Meaning of Media: Texts and Materiality in Medieval Scandinavia	0
:“Parzival” im Manuskript: Profile der Parzival-Überlieferung am Beispiel von fünf Handschriften des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts	0
Scandal, or Historical Dead Ends	0
:The Register of Richard Praty: Bishop of Chichester 1438–1445	0
:Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature	0
:Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God	0
:The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy	0
:Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric	0
La cucina normannoaraba alla corte di Guglielmo II di Sicilia: Indagine storico-filologica sui ricettari “Normanni”	0
:The “Chronographia” of George the Synkellos and Theophanes: The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople	0
Contributors to the Medieval Academy of America	0
Nicolas Drocourt and Élisabeth Malamut, eds., La diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve–XVe s.). (The Medieval Mediterranean 123.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020.	0
Toward a Medieval Theory of the Human: Literacy and Bede’s Parable of Cædmon	0
:Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830–1270	0

Front Matter	0
Thomas N. Bisson, ed. and trans., The Chronography of Robert of Torigni. Vol. 1, The Chronicle, A.D. 1100–1186. Vol. 2, Related Historical Texts. (Oxford Medieval Texts.) Oxford:	0
:Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography	0
: The Creation of the Illustrated Octateuch	0
:Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul	0
:Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan al-Din	0
:Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing	0
Paul Merkley, Music and Patronage in the Court of René d’Anjou: Sacred and Secular Music in the Literary Program and Ceremonial. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 498.) Tempe: Arizona	0
Concluding Roundtable: Crisis and Optimism	0
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke	0
:The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus	0
: Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions	0
:Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the “Freeska Landriucht.”	0
:The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse	0
Annual Table of Contents	0
:Mobile Saints: Relic Circulation, Devotion, and Conflict in the Central Middle Ages	0
:Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts	0
Front Cover	0
:Human Trafficking in Medieval Europe: Slavery, Sexual Exploitation, and Prostitution	0
:Beowulf as Children’s Literature	0
:The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century	0
:Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750–1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity	0
: The Christianization of Scandinavia in the Viking Era: Religious Change in Adam of Bremen’s Historical Work	0
Unwriting the History of Medieval Music	0
:Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening before Dante	0
:Prayer Books and Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Gebetbücher und Frömmigkeit in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit	0
:“Alchoran” sive “Lex Saracenorum”: Petro Cluniacensi Abbate precipiente a Roberto Ketenensi translatus, glossae in “Alchoran” fortasse a Petro Pictauiense redactae. Edición crítica y estudio	0
:The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities	0
:Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance	0
:Theoderich der Große und das gotische Königreich in Italien	0
:Onomastics of the “Chanson de Roland.” Or: Why Gaston Paris and Joseph Bédier Were Both Right	0
:Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society under English Law	0
: Truth Is Trickiest: The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles	0
Brief Notices	0
:Secular Canons in Medieval Europe: Diversity under Common Canon Law	0
:The Abbasid Caliphate: A History	0
: Bath and Wells: 1275–1302	0
: Alfredian Prologues and Epilogues	0
:Pious Fictions and Pseudo-Saints in the Late Middle Ages: Selected Legends from an Icelandic Legendary	0
Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic	0
:The Normans in the Mediterranean	0
:Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries	0
:Caxton’s “Golden Legend,”	0
:Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200	0
The Public Lens: Medieval Manuscripts and Museums	0
:The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture	0
:Tradition and Identity: The Architecture of Greek Churches in Cyprus (14th to 16th Centuries)	0
:Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England: Texts, Landscapes, and Material Culture	0
:Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl	0
:Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire	0
:Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England	0
Remembering the Normans in the South, from Somalia to Sicily: A Case Study in the Medieval Mediterranean’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures	0
:Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds	0
:Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book	0
:Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England: From Henry II to Edward I	0
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2023	0
:Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage	0
Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain	0
:Chaucer’s Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry	0
:Divisio regni: The Territorial Divisions, Power Struggles, and Dynastic Historiography of the Árpáds of 11th- and Early 12th-Century Hungary, with Comparative Studies of the Piasts of Poland and t	0
:Disease and Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Literature	0
:Les Grâces à Athènes: Éloge d’un gouverneur byzantin par Nikolaos Kataphlôron	0
:Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers	0
Discovering Medieval Ferns, Co. Wexford	0
Women in the Piast Dynasty: A Comparative Study of Piast Wives and Daughters (c. 965–c. 1144)	0
:Peasants Making History: Living in an English Region, 1200–1540	0
:“Apologia della storia” o “Mestiere di storico,”	0
:Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance	0
The Contingent Middle Ages	0
:Paradoxes du lettré: Le clerc-poète et son lecteur laïc à l’épreuve des polémiques intellectuelles (XIIIe siècle	0
:Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature	0
Glyn S. Burgess and Douglas Kelly, trans., The “Roman de Thèbes” and The “Roman d’Eneas.” (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe 19.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. xv, 422. £110.	0
:Writings on Body and Soul	0
: Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300–1500 CE: Unfolding Narratives	0
:Historical Writing of Early Rus (c. 1000–c. 1400) in a Comparative Perspective	0
:Repenser l’“Énéide”: Commentaire sur les six premiers livres de l’“Énéide” de Virgile	0
:Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew	0
Davide Checchi, Libro della natura degli animali: Bestiaro toscano del secolo XIII. (Archivio Romanzo 36.) Florence: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2020. Pp. x, 503. €82. ISBN: 978-8-8845-0910-9	0
:The Death of Tidericus the Organist: Plague and Conspiracy Theory in Hanseatic Visby	0
:Les déserts de l’Occident: Genèse des lieux monastiques dans le sud-est de la Gaule (fin IVe–milieu VIe siècle)	0

:Die Steinkemenate zu Karlburg im Dorf gelegen: Der Lauthersche Hof in Karlburg: Ein befestigter Adelssitz des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit im Hochstift Würzburg, Gde. Karlburg, Lkr. Main-Sp	0
:The Papacy and Ecclesiology of Honorius II (1124–1130): Church Governance after the Concordat of Worms	0
Errata	0
:Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, postSaxon Futures	0
Brief Notices	0
Introduction: Medieval Studies and Its Institutions	0
:Otto der Große 912–973: Kaiser der Römer, König der Völker	0
Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Julia Haig Gaisser, and James Hankins, eds., Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Annotated Lists and Guide	0
:Speculum medicine	0
:Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland: Literary and Artistic Activities of the Monastery at Helgafell in the Fourteenth Century	0
:Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal	0
:From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari	0
“English Is Some Stockholm Sh!t”: An Indigenous Cultural History of Old English	0
:Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers	0
:Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe	0
Back Matter	0
: Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds: Studies in Heritage and Transfer of Arabic Science in Honour of Charles Burnett	0
:Early Medieval Venice: Cultural Memory and History	0
:Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies 2	0
Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds., Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World. (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Pres	0
:Das mittelalterliche Livland und sein historisches Erbe / Medieval Livonia and Its Historical Legacy	0
Western Supremacy and “Byzantium”	0
: Olfaktorik und Entgrenzung: Die Visionen der Wienerin Agnes Blannbekin	0
Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard	0
:Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece	0
:Onvoltooid verleden: De handschriften van de “Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen” in de laatmiddeleeuwse Vlaamse steden	0
Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan	0
:Los potenciales polifónicos: La nobleza cortesana del “Cantar de Mio Cid.”	0
: Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond	0
:The Aesthetics of Melancholia: Medical and Spiritual Diseases in Medieval Iberia	0
:A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy	0
:Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity after the Plague	0
La scienza del polso nel XII secolo: Letture inedite del “De pulsibus Philareti”	0
:Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings	0
:Otherworld Women in Early Irish Literature	0
:Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March: One Family’s Story	0
:Caring for the Living Soul: Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean	0
The Movement of History: Negotiating the Path to the Future in the Twelfth-Century Crypt Frescoes at Anagni Cathedral	0
:The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science	0
:Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300–1550	0
:Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the “Adventus Saxonum.”	0
Front Cover	0
Editors’ Introduction	0
Resonant Charisma: Richard Rolle as Public Contemplative	0
:The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c.750–880	0
:Gouverner par les livres: Les “Légendes dorées” et la formation de la société chrétienne (XIIIe–XVe siècle)	0
:A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm	0
:A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play	0
Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures	0
:Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–1550	0
:Images of Discord: Poetics and Politics of the Sacred Image in Fifteenth-Century Spain	0
:Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World	0
:Words and Deeds: Shaping Urban Politics from Below in Late Medieval Europe	0
:Vom Beneficial- zum Lehnswesen: Eine vergleichende Analyse sächsischer und böhmischer Quellen des 10.–14. Jahrhunderts	0
Redefining “Medievalist” the Medieval Way: Toward a More Accessible Medieval Studies	0
:Généalogie de la raison d’État: L’exception souveraine du Moyen Âge au Baroque	0
:A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The “Life of Clare of Rimini.”	0
:The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law	0
:Viols d’enfants au Moyen Âge: Genre et pédocriminalité à Bologne, XIVe–XVe siècle	0
The Marriage of a Cleric and Canon in Twelfth-Century Paris: Heloise, Abelard, and the Evolution of Clerical Celibacy	0
:Forged in the Shadow of Mars: Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Florence	0
:La “señal” del pedrero: Obra y fábrica del claustro de la catedral de Toledo (1383–1485)	0
Frédérique Le Nan, Poétesses et escrivaines en Occitanie médiévale: La trace, la voix, le genre. (Interférences.) Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021. Pp. 272. €25. ISBN: 978-2-7535-	0
:The Historic Landscape of Catalonia: Landscape History of a Mediterranean Country in the Middle Ages	0
:Geschichte und Weltordnung: Graphische Modelle von Zeit und Raum in Universalchroniken vor 1500	0
:Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600–1600	0
: The Overseas Trade of Boston, 1279–1548	0
2024 Contributors to the Medieval Academy of America	0
:Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100–1250	0
Johannes Bartuschat, Elisa Brilli, and Delphine Carron, eds., The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity (13th–14th Centuries) / I domenicani e la costruzione dell’identit	0
:Metaphysics between Experience and Transcendence: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics as a Science	0
:Fracta doces: Thirteenth-Century Insular Visitors to Rome	0
Alessandro Palazzo and Anna Rodolfi, eds., Prophecy and Prophets in the Middle Ages. (Micrologus Library 103.) Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2020. Pp. xiv, 298. €54. ISBN: 978-8-8929-	0
:Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature	0
Brief Notices	0
:“What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture	0
:Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy	0
:The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion	0
Front Cover	0
Comparative Economy and Martial Corporatism: Toward an Understanding of Florentine City Leagues, 1332–92	0
:Christian Identity Formation across the Elbe in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries	0
:Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages	0
:Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy: Siena, 1260–1330	0
:Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament	0
:Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330)	0
:“Huon of Bordeaux”: First Modern English Translation	0
Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire	0
: Networks of Bishops, Networks of Texts: Manuscripts, Legal Cultures, Tools of Government in Carolingian Italy at the Time of Lothar I	0
: Sienese Hospitals Within and Beyond the City Walls: Charity and the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala, 1400–1600	0
:Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258–1272	0
:Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act	0
Front Matter	0
New Directions in Medieval Paleography: Everyday Traces of the Past	0
:A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources	0
The Friar and the Philosopher: William of Moerbeke and the Rise of Aristotle’s Science in Medieval Europe	0