Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 29 contains six original articles exploring topics ranging from an analysis of the letters of Gregory the Great to a study of a manual for confessors composed around 1400. In addition to the articles, eighteen review notices examine recent publications in medieval and early modern studies.

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardbound volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.