Speculations: The Centennial Issue, Speculum, t. 101, janv. 2026.

Table des matières :

Editors’ Introduction — Mohamad Ballan, Cecily J. Hilsdale, Katherine L. Jansen, Sierra Lomuto, and Peggy McCracken

New Directions in Medieval Paleography: Everyday Traces of the Past — Elaine Treharne

Remembering the Normans in the South, from Somalia to Sicily: A Case Study in the Medieval Mediterranean’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures — Claire Dillon

Radical Reimagining and the Work of Queer and Trans History — Leah DeVun

Psychoanalytic Futures — Jessica Rosenfeld

Coloniality and Colonialism in Urban Customary Law: The View from Medieval Dublin — Esther Liberman Cuenca

Lareowas ond leornungcnihtas: Toward Inclusive and Global Futures for Teaching and Learning Old English — Michael D. J. Bintley, Donna Beth Ellard, Daria Izdebska, Emma Nuding, Emily Sun, Erin E. Sweany, and Trisha Teig

Medieval Studies and the History of Emotions: Possibilities and Pitfalls — Barbara H. Rosenwein

The Medieval Prehistory of the Carbon Economy — Spencer A. Strub

Stuck in the Dark Ages: Medieval Studies in the K–12 Classroom — Courtney Luckhardt, Julianne Bruneau, and Bradley Phillis

Enslavement and Global Medieval Cultures: Centering the Contributions of Enslaved People as an Approach to Medieval History — Lisa Nielson

Literacy, Diversity, and Workplace Skills in Community College Medieval Literature Courses — Aidan Holtan and Karen Campbell

Western Supremacy and “Byzantium” — Leonora Neville

Medieval Crosscurrents: More Once and Future Medievalisms — Matthew Vernon

Unquestionably Gay? Melancholia, Futurity, and John Boswell’s Aelred of Rievaulx — James C. Staples

Medievalism: A Reckoning — Raha Rafii

Literary History Is a Ghost Story: The Awntyrs off Arthure and Romance Speculations — Elizabeth Allen

The Past, Present, and Future Prospect of Islamicate Studies — Ross Brann

Toward a Medieval Theory of the Human: Literacy and Bede’s Parable of Cædmon — Jonathan F. Correa Reyes

Redefining “Medievalist” the Medieval Way: Toward a More Accessible Medieval Studies — Christopher D. Fletcher

Is Spain “Different”? Self-Segregation, Exclusion, and the Future of Medieval Iberian Studies — Pamela A. Patton

The Future of Medieval Ethnicity — Walter Pohl

Global Medieval Studies Is a Failure — Michelle C. Wang

Scandal, or Historical Dead Ends — Sarah Davis-Secord

Thinking (and Feeling) in Virtual Reality: Prospective Uses in Medieval Studies — Blair Apgar

Systems Thinking — Ingrid Nelson

Millennial Books — Michelle R. Warren

Anachronic Blackness: The Image of the Black Fingo of Re-presentation in the Late Medieval Low Countries — Dontay M. Givens II

The Medieval Wearable: In and Out of Time — Elizabeth Dospěl Williams and Ittai Weinryb

Reacting to the (Medieval) Past: Immersive Role-Playing Simulations and Medieval Studies at Access-Granting Institutions — Amy Brown Curry and Kyle C. Lincoln

“English Is Some Stockholm Sh!t”: An Indigenous Cultural History of Old English — Tarren Andrews

Affective Philology and Reading Machines — Sarah McNamer

Transforming the Digital Landscape: Towards a Medieval Knowledge Graph — Toby Burrows

Entanglement, Identity, and Difference: Medieval Jews in Christian Europe — Elisheva Baumgarten

Glass Ceilings? Transdisciplinary Work in Medieval Studies — Eva von Contzen, Julia von Ditfurth, Bastian E. Rapp, and Fabian Stroth

The Translation of Medieval Iberia — Claire Gilbert

A Fool’s Errand? Toward Decolonizing Gothic Architecture — Erik Gustafson

The Public Lens: Medieval Manuscripts and Museums — Lynley Anne Herbert and Elizabeth Morrison

Bound Together: A Collaborative Essay on the Formation of Future Medievalists — Will Beattie, Loren E. L. Cantrell, Chas Firestone East, Masha Goldin, Andrea Kate Klassen, and Maria S. Thomas

Digital Medieval Studies: Charting the Course — Laura K. Morreale

Researching Law in the Global Middle Ages: Byzantine and Chinese Legal History in Conversation — James Morton and Emily Cheng

Medieval Studies and STEM: Speculations of a Byzantino-Arabist — Maria Mavroudi

The Two Faces of Medieval Jewish Studies — Rachel Katz and Lucy K. Pick

Goitein, the Indian Ocean, and a Missed Opportunity to Make Medieval History Global — Marina Rustow

Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article — Janet E. Kay, Alexandra Johnson, Eleanor Farber, Megan Hanna Fry, and Sam Leggett

Medieval England’s Jewish Diaspora and Critical Archival Studies — Adrienne Williams Boyarin

Life Before Speculum — Caroline M. Barron and Joel T. Rosenthal

Where Now with Medieval Women Authors? Feminism for the Next Fifty Years — Holly Crocker and Laura Saetveit Miles

Medieval Transgender Studies: The Pasts and Futures of Trans Presents — Blake Gutt

Taking into Account: Lives behind Lists of Things, Thinking beyond Materiality — Anne E. Lester

An Ignored Archive, Accidental Archives, and Sacred Trash: Japan’s Shōsōin in the Comparative Middle Ages — Bryan D. Lowe

The Future of Time: Methodological Dialogues between Philology, Archaeology, and Genomics — Monica H. Green

Latin Europe through Ethiopian Eyes — Samantha Kelly

Mediterranean Studies and the Medieval West, or Never Trust a “Mediterraneanist” — Brian A. Catlos

Unwriting the History of Medieval Music — Marcel Camprubí

From Melancholy to Hope: The Future Use-Value of the Past via Medieval German Romance — Sara S. Poor

Reframing Quanzhou Mosques: Maritime Perspectives on a Marginalized Tradition in South China — Sylvia Wu

The Contingent Middle Ages — François·e Charmaille

Source : The University of Chicago Press