MIP at #kzoo2023

Earlier this month, the Medieval Institute was proud to welcome the global community of medievalists back to the campus of Western Michigan University for the first in-person International Congress on Medieval Studies since 2019—and to launch the first-ever hybrid Congress, enabling hundreds of medievalists to join us from around the world virtually! The Exhibits Hall was also back in full force, with over 50 exhibitors selling books, musical instruments, jewelry, decor, stationary, art, and even hot sauce. MIP was in a new location this year, in the center of the Exhibits Hall, and we look forward to being more centrally located from now on.

We had a wonderful time talking to friends, colleagues, and scholars interested in publishing with our series. If you didn't get a chance to stop by, our virtual booth is still up, where you can see our newest titles, get 45% off 45 of our classic titles to celebrate our 45th anniversary, download our 2023 catalog, learn about our book series and journals, and get in contact with our acquisitions editors Tyler, Erin, and Emily.

We also hosted a reception on Saturday night celebrating all the books and journals we had published since our last in-person Congress in 2019. It was wonderful to share these books and a little more social time with those who attended. We plan to make this reception an annual event!

We can't wait to do it all again next year. Until then, stay in touch! Check out our Linktree to find out where you can follow us on social and other platforms (and you can subscribe for updates when we post new links). For more updates, subscribe to our newsletter: if you subscribe by May 31, you will be automatically entered in our monthly book drawing to win a book of your choice from those published since the 2022 Congress! 

Subscribe to our newsletter or enter our drawing (open the May newsletter in your inbox, scroll to the bottom, and click "Enter Drawing") by May 31, 2023 for the chance to win:

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Pick your prize from any of the books published since the 2022 ICMS!

The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II), edited and translated by Susanna Fein

Anglo-Danish Empire: A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut the Great, edited by Richard North, Erin Goeres and Alison Finlay

Mapping Narrations, Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, by Ingrid Baumgärtner and edited by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach and Phillip Landgrebe

Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics, edited by David Hadbawnik

Blandin de Cornoalha, A Comic Occitan Romance: A New Critical Edition and Translation, edited by Wendy Pfeffer, translated by Margaret Burrell and Wendy Pfeffer

Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages, edited by Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel and Laura Miquel Milian

The Bond of Empathy in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, by David Strong

The Miracle of Theophilus by Gautier de Coinci, edited and translated by Jerry Root

John of Garland, "Integumenta Ovidii": Text, Translation, and Commentary, edited and translated by Kyle Gervais

Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350: A Sourcebook, edited by Tzafrir Barzilay, Eyal Levinson, and Elisheva Baumgarten

Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage, by Asuka Kimura

Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature, by Christine Schott

Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art for Stephen Fliegel, edited by Elina Gertsman

Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century, edited by Robert A. Wood

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