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Winter Meditations

Posted by Nikki Roulo on January 10, 2024

A painting depicting a few figures, hunters, with a pack of dogs cresting a hill covered in snow, heading down into a valley populated by a village with smaller figures ice fishing on frozen ponds. — Pieter Brugel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter), 1565, oil on wood, 162 x 117 cm (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna).

Happy New Year from Medieval Institute Publications!

As with every new year, we have been contemplating the ways we will spend the year devoted to supporting the work of early period scholars. And we are taking William Dunbar’s advice: “Remember thow hes compt to mak / Of all thi tyme thow spendit heir.’”¹ We are preparing for our new book releases, including Brian Gastle and Catherine Carter’s edited edition and translation of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and our journals' new editions. We will be featuring works-in-progress by our writers and editors in our blog and be hosting roundtables with our acquisition editors this year. Be sure to check out our monthly podcasts, in collaboration with New Books Network, for author discussions.

If you are a writer with a manuscript at Medieval Institute Publications and want your work-in-progress or completed book to be featured, feel free to reach out to Nikki Roulo.

¹William Dunbar, “A Meditation in Winter,” in The Complete Works, edited by John Conlee (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004).