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

Viator publie des articles de qualité dans tous les domaines du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, vus comme la période située entre l’Antiquité Tardive et le milieu du XVII^e siècle. En accord avec son nom, la revue prend en compte des articles qui traversent les frontières : articles traitant de la rencontre des cultures, du suivi d’une idée au cours des siècles, et qui emploie simultanément des méthodes de disciplines différentes. Les articles, tous écrits en anglais, doivent atteindre un niveau technique excellent tout en étant accessible au non-spécialiste averti.