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Four articles relevant to medieval Jewish studies published in Speculum

The centennial issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (“Speculations,” January 2026) includes four short articles relevant to the study of medieval Jews: “Entanglement, Identity, and Difference: Medieval Jews in Christian Europe,” by Elisheva Baumgarten; “The Two Faces of Medieval Jewish Studies,” by Rachel Katz and Lucy Pick; “Medieval England’s Jewish Diaspora and Critical Archival Studies,” by Adrienne Williams Boyarin; and “Goitein, the Indian Ocean, and a Missed Opportunity to Make Medieval History Global,” by Marina Rustow.


New book — Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Jessalyn L. Bird and Rita George-Tvrtković

Brill, December 2025

This volume will introduce advanced students and non-specialists to various historical interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims within the frame of the “sea at the centre”. Its chronological range is the long central Middle Ages (1000 to 1600 CE), and includes most Mediterranean regions: Iberia, North Africa, the Levant, Asia Minor, the Balkans, Italy, Provence, and the sea itself.