Recent issues of Speculum shows that literature departments currently have the upper hand regarding the content of this journal. Out of 18 articles published this year, only two falls into the categery, history proper.

The Medieval Academy of America was founded as an interdisciplinary association including members from language, literature, history and philosophy. In practice it works a seesaw where literature-based medievalists compete with medieval historians.

Currently, it is obvious the medievalists working inside medieval literature studies have the upper hand. Of 18 articles published in vol. 93 of Speculum this year (2018), only two may be classified as representing medieval history, two have an art historical focus, and the rest concerns literature and texts.

Speculum. The journal of the Medieval Academy of America
Editor: Sarah Spence
Volume 93, Number 3,  July 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Rethinking the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215
Jeffrey M. Wayno
pp. 611–637

“All the Way to the British Isles”: Ayyūbid-English Diplomatic Networks in an Early Thirteenth-Century Exchange
Ilan Shoval
pp. 638–668

Lydgate’s Virtual Coteries: Chaucer’s Family and Gower’s Pacifism in the Fifteenth Century
R. D. Perry
pp. 669–698

Augustine on Lying
Erika T. Hermanowicz
pp. 699–727

Hildesheim Avant-Garde: Bronze, Columns, and Colonialism
Ittai Weinryb
pp. 728–782

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Is Early Medieval Europe in the process of merging with The Journal of Late Antiquity? Four out of five articles touch upon people and events in the 4th, 6th, and 6th centuries.

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Last year the Society for Medieval Archaeology decided to publish two issues per year of the journal Medieval Archaeology. The issue from June 2018 cover a wide variety of themes and subjects offering a handful of new and inspiring articles as well as a series of book reviews

List of contents:

Dressed for Ritual, Dressed for Life. A Migration-Period Grave from Sande in Norway
Marianne Vedeler, Elna Siv Kristoffersen & Ingunn Marit Røstad
Pages: 1-27

The Eslington Sword and the Kingdom of Northumbria
Rob Collins & Sam Turner
Pages: 28-52

An Insular Reliquary from Melhus: The Significance of Insular Ecclesiastical Material in Early Viking-Age Norway
Aina Heen-Pettersen & Griffin Murray
Pages: 53-82

Pebbles and Peregrinatio: The Taskscape of Medieval Devotion on Inishark Island, Ireland
Ryan Lash
Pages: 83-104

The Archaeology of the Military Orders: The Material Culture of Holy War
Aleks Pluskowski
Pages: 105-134

Medieval Timber Motte Towers
William Wyeth
Pages: 135-156

Archaeological Excavations of the Medieval Royal Kincardine Landscape, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
Kevin Malloy & Derek Hall
Pages: 157-176

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