Academy Archives contains articles, documents, and reports concerning The Academy and Medieval Studies generally. This archive also contains back issues of the Medieval Academy News and previous front-page announcements.

Cambridge University Press and the Academy

Cambridge University Press and Speculum

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Articles on the profession, its history, and its development:

From Medieval Studies in North America: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Francis G. Gentry and Christopher Kleinhenz (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1982)*:

William J. Courtenay, "The Virgin and the Dynamo: The Growth of Medieval Studies in North America: 1870-1930" (pp. 5–22)

Luke Wenger, "The Medieval Academy and Medieval Studies in North America" (pp. 23–40)

*reprinted by permission of the editors, authors, and publisher and with special thanks to Thomas Krol, Production Manager of Medieval Institute Publications.

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David Herlihy, "The American Medievalist: A Social and Professional Profile," Speculum 58 (1983), 881–90.

Luke Wenger, "The New Middle Ages," Medieval Perspectives 15 (2000): 12–26.

reprinted by permission of SEMA.

Richard K. Emmerson, "Medieval Studies in the Beginning of the New Millenium," in Vital Signs: English in Medieval Studies in Twenty-First Century Higher Education, ed. Elaine Treharne (English Association Issues in English, 2), 2002, pp. 17–27.

reprinted by permission of the English Association.

Articles from Speculum:

Michael McCormick, Paul Edward Dutton, and Paul A. Mayewski, "Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750–950"

reprinted from Speculum 82 (2007), 865–95.

A little history:

In the summer of 2004, Janet T. Marquardt, an art historian from Eastern Illinois University, visited the Medieval Academy to gather information on the work of Kenneth Conant for a book on the history of the abbey of Cluny since the French Revolution and the impact of Conant's studies on the development of the discipline of art history. Awareness of the importance of the ruin and site was generated by the extensive excavations he undertook from 1928 to 1950.

We are pleased to present here the early results of that work: "First Projects: Medieval Academy Support of Kenneth J. Conant’s Cluny," not least because it provides us the opportunity to display some of the photographs of the site and of Conant from our own files. Her book was later published under the title From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and reviewed in Speculum 84 (2009), 183-184.

Back in the day . . .

Reports:

Fellows: Enclosure 9 Report of the Graduate Student Committee

Report on Fellowships Granted to Medievalists, 1997–2008, by Susan Moshe Stuard

Ph.D. Registry Project, by Roger Dahood

Newsletters:

The first (September 1948) issue of the Medieval Academy News

Medieval Academy News, Fall 2009

Medieval Academy News, Spring 2009

Medieval Academy News, Winter 2008

Medieval Academy News, Fall 2008

Medieval Academy News, Spring 2008

For feature articles from earlier issues of the Medieval Academy News, click here.

Past Announcements:

A letter from Japan

A letter from the president

Photo album: 84th Annual Medieval Academy Meeting in Chicago

2009 NEH Summer Seminar Photo Album

NEH 2009 Summer Seminar on Dante's Divine Comedy and the Medieval World

2009 Annual Meeting

CARA Meets at Catholic University, October 2–4, 2008

Vatican Library News

Click here for the 2010 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

Upcoming Round of CARA Awards for Teaching and Service