| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Censorship and Cultural Change in Late-Medieval England: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409 | Speculum | 1995 | 563 |
| 2 | Varieties and Consequences of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy | Speculum | 1980 | 273 |
| 3 | History, Historicism, and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages | Speculum | 1990 | 272 |
| 4 | The Library of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | Speculum | 1972 | 226 |
| 5 | Introduction: Philology in a Manuscript Culture | Speculum | 1990 | 202 |
| 6 | The "Crisis of Cenobitism" Reconsidered: Benedictine Monasticism in the Years 1050-1150 | Speculum | 1986 | 200 |
| 7 | The Book of Troy and the Genealogical Construction of History: The Case of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae | Speculum | 1994 | 198 |
| 8 | Sir Thomas Berkeley and His Patronage | Speculum | 1989 | 191 |
| 9 | On the Margin: Postmodernism, Ironic History, and Medieval Studies | Speculum | 1990 | 181 |
| 10 | The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II | Speculum | 1978 | 178 |
| 11 | Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible | Speculum | 1993 | 176 |
| 12 | Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages' | Speculum | 1942 | 175 |
| 13 | The Carolingian Age: Reflections on Its Place in the History of the Middle Ages | Speculum | 1989 | 173 |
| 14 | Bede, Cassiodorus, and the Codex Amiatinus | Speculum | 1996 | 163 |
| 15 | Chaucer's Scribe | Speculum | 2006 | 162 |
| 16 | The Barbarians in Justinian's Armies | Speculum | 1965 | 160 |
| 17 | Covenant and Causality in Pierre d'Ailly | Speculum | 1971 | 160 |
| 18 | Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth as Factors in the Rise of Humanistic Thought | Speculum | 1938 | 159 |
| 19 | Silk Industry in the Byzantine Empire | Speculum | 1945 | 159 |
| 20 | Oral-Formulaic Character of Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry | Speculum | 1953 | 154 |
| 21 | Gaimar's Epilogue and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Liber vetustissimus | Speculum | 1994 | 152 |
| 22 | Monks and Their Enemies: A Comparative Approach | Speculum | 1991 | 151 |
| 23 | Homo Viator: Mediaeval Ideas on Alienation and Order | Speculum | 1967 | 140 |
| 24 | From Sorcery to Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions of Magic in the Later Middle Ages | Speculum | 2001 | 135 |
| 25 | The Study of Foreign Languages in the Middle Ages | Speculum | 1961 | 134 |
| 26 | Chancery and the Emergence of Standard Written English in the Fifteenth Century | Speculum | 1977 | 134 |
| 27 | Syntactical Glosses in Latin Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon Provenance | Speculum | 1973 | 127 |
| 28 | The Origins of the Commenda Contract | Speculum | 1977 | 126 |
| 29 | Mary's Nativity, Fulbert of Chartres, and the Stirps Jesse: Liturgical Innovation circa 1000 and Its Afterlife | Speculum | 2000 | 123 |
| 30 | Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Psyche and Clio in Medieval Literary Studies | Speculum | 2001 | 120 |
| 31 | The "Positivism" of Marsiglio of Padua | Speculum | 1963 | 117 |
| 32 | What Did It Mean to Say "I Saw"? The Clash between Theory and Practice in Medieval Visionary Culture | Speculum | 2005 | 116 |
| 33 | Prayer as Liturgical Performance in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Psalters | Speculum | 2007 | 116 |
| 34 | At the Origins of the Western Commenda: Islam, Israel, Byzantium? | Speculum | 1962 | 115 |
| 35 | Praying with Anselm at Admont: A Meditation on Practice | Speculum | 2006 | 115 |
| 36 | John of Salisbury and the Doctrine of Tyrannicide | Speculum | 1967 | 114 |
| 37 | Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries | Speculum | 1981 | 114 |
| 38 | The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English | Speculum | 1994 | 112 |
| 39 | Civitas Sibi Faciat Civem: Bartolus of Sassoferrato's Doctrine on the Making of a Citizen | Speculum | 1973 | 111 |
| 40 | The Scholastic Method in Medieval Education: An Inquiry into Its Origins in Law and Theology | Speculum | 1974 | 111 |
| 41 | Possessed by the Spirit: Devout Women, Demoniacs, and the Apostolic Life in the Thirteenth Century | Speculum | 1998 | 110 |
| 42 | The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316, and 1317 | Speculum | 1930 | 108 |
| 43 | Papal Plenitudo Potestatis and the Source of Temporal Authority in Late Medieval Papal Hierocratic Theory | Speculum | 1973 | 107 |
| 44 | When Women Aren't Enough | Speculum | 1993 | 107 |
| 45 | "The Sweet Lean of His Head": Writing about Looking at the Crucifix in the High Middle Ages | Speculum | 2005 | 106 |
| 46 | Hugo of St. Victor: De Tribus Maximis Circumstantiis Gestorum | Speculum | 1943 | 105 |
| 47 | Bede's Vera Lex Historiae | Speculum | 1980 | 104 |
| 48 | The Intellectual Preparation for the Canon of 1215 against Ordeals | Speculum | 1961 | 103 |
| 49 | The Role of the Quotations in Piers Plowman | Speculum | 1977 | 103 |
| 50 | Clovis: How Barbaric, How Pagan? | Speculum | 1994 | 103 |
