Viator 40, No. 2 (2009)

The contents of this issue include:

De dignitate conditionis humanae: Translation, Commentary, and Reception History of the Dicta Albini (Ps.-Alcuin) and the Dicta Candidi
METTE LEBECH AND JAMES MCEVOY WITH JOHN FLOOD

“Democratic” Action in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Michael Attaleiates’s
“Republicanism” in Context
DIMITRIS KRALLIS

The Purposeful Patron: Political Covenant in the Salerno Ivories
ELIZABETH C. COREY

Demetrius of Thessaloniki: Patron Saint of Crusaders
ELIZABETH LAPINA

Trouble in the Island of the Mighty: Kinship and Violence in Branwen ferch Lyr
LESLEY JACOBS

The Kingdom of Sicily and the Early University Movement
PAUL OLDFIELD

The Process of State-Formation in Medieval Iceland
SVERRIR JAKOBSSON

Liturgy and the Spiritual Experience of Religious Women at Santa Maria
de Vallbona, Catalonia
MICHELLE M. HERDER

The de Reys (1220–1501): The Evolution of a “Middle-Class” Muslim Family
in Christian Aragón
BRIAN A. CATLOS

Priestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church
MICHELLE ARMSTRONG-PARTIDA

The Story of Engle and Scardying: Fragment of an Anglo-Norman Chronicle Roll
DON C. SKEMER

Practice and Knowledge in a Medieval Livre de Raison
IONUT EPURESCU-PASCOVICI

Rethinking the Recensions of the Confessio Amantis
WIM LINDEBOOM

Treating of Virtue: Intertextuality in a Fifteenth-Century Spanish Miscellany
MICHAEL HAMMER

Laughter in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel: Utopia as Extra-Textual Place
MEREDITH CLERMONT-FERRAND

Forking Paths in Sixteenth-Century Philosophy: Charles de Bovelles and
Giordano Bruno
CESARE CATÀ