On August 14, 2020, after research conducted by staff members and Review Editors of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, the Editor and Publisher of Speculum determined that a review submitted by Spyros P. Panagopoulos of Johannes Koder, Die Byzantiner: Kultur und Alltag im Mittelalter (Vienna, Cologne, and Weimar: Böhlau, 2016) and published in Speculum 93/4 (October 2018): 1219–20 used language without appropriate citation from the publisher website and from a short notice written by Dr. Heike Talkenberger on the wissenschaft.de website. When notified of this discovery, the author agreed to retract his review.

Speculum and its publisher, the University of Chicago Press, apologize for any harm done to the authors, publishers, and scholarly websites involved in this case. The review has been removed from all versions of the journal published on our website.