• The winner of the 2024 Otto Gründler Book Prize is Jonathan R. Lyon's "Corruption, Protection, and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand-Year History" (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

  • The winner of the 2024 La Corónica Book Award is Sarah Ifft Decker’s "The Fruit of her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Penn State University Press, 2022).

  • The 2024 Paul E. Szarmach Prize was awarded to J-Michel Reaux Colvin for "Scoticitas: Reframing 'Scotus' in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," VIATOR 53, no. 2 (2022): 141–75.

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The 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place Thursday, May 8, through Saturday, May 10, 2025.

The 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place Thursday, May 14, through Saturday, May 16, 2026.

The 62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place Thursday, May 13, through Saturday, May 15, 2027.

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