''Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies'' is a quarterly

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published by

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on behalf of the

Medieval Academy of America The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until c. 1980) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes ...

. Established in 1926 by

Edward Kennard Rand Edward Kennard Rand FBA OCI (December 20, 1871 – October 28, 1945), known widely as E.K. Rand or to his peers as EKR, was an American classical scholar and medievalist. He served as the Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University from 190 ...

, it is widely regarded as the most prestigious journal in medieval studies. The journal's primary focus is on the time period from 500 to 1500 in

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, but also on related subjects such as

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and Slavic studies. , the

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is Katherine L. Jansen. The organization and its journal were first proposed in 1921 at a meeting of the

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, and the journal's focus was interdisciplinary from its beginning, with one reviewer noting a specific interest in

Medieval Latin Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned ...

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