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Medieval Studies Journal Wins National Award

The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies was honored recently at a Modern Language Association convention.

A medieval studies journal housed and edited at Duke was recently honored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies received the 2014 CELJ Codex Award, given to the best journal covering the period before 1500.

The award was given during the Modern Language Association's January 2015 convention.

One judge described the journal as "a broad-ranging, theoretically sophisticated serial that publishes articles by scholars at all career stages. The editing is superb and the quality of the intellectual work outstanding. Combining as it does literary criticism, history, art history, religious studies and philosophy, JMEMS breaks down constricting boundaries between disciplines."

The judge continued: "Working as it does across a timespan ranging between 500 and 1700 CE, it opens vistas onto connections between the early medieval and early modern periods that help us see well beyond traditional bounds of periodization."