Viator 44, No. 1 (2013)

Viator offers a space for renewed attention to transcultural studies from late antiquity into early modernity, while continuing its long-standing tradition of publishing articles of distinction in the established fields of medieval and Renaissance studies. In keeping with its title, "traveler," the journal gives special consideration to articles that cross frontiers, focus on meetings between cultures, pursue an idea through the centuries, or employ methods of different disciplines simultaneously, while remaining accessible to the non-specialist reader. We particularly welcome articles that look beyond Western Eurasia and North Africa and consider the history, literature, art, and thought of the eras of early global interconnection from broader perspectives.

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.

Natalia Rusnac, “From Villa to Cloister: The Religious Transformation of the Book in Late Antique Gaul”

Leidulf Melve, “‘Even the Very Laymen Are Chattering about It’: The Politicization of Public Opinion, 800–1200”

Sarah Whitten, “Quasi ex uno ore: Legal Performance, Monastic Return, and Community in Medieval Southern Italy”

Natasha R. Hodgson, “Lions, Tigers, and Bears: Encounters with Wild Animals and Bestial Imagery in the Context of Crusading to the Latin East”

Vincent Debiais, “The Poem of Baudri for Countess Adèle: A Starting Point for a Reading of Medieval Latin Ekphrasis”

Ilya Dines, “The Earliest Use of John of Salisbury’s Policraticus: Third Family Bestiaries”

Dawn Marie Hayes, “French Connections: The Significance of the Fleurs-de-Lis in the Mosaic of King Roger II of Sicily in the Church of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio, Palermo”

Ayelet Even-Ezra, “The Conceptualization of Charisma in the Early Thirteenth Century”

Irven Resnick, “Luke 22.44 and Sweating Blood: Jesus and Medieval Natural Philosophers”

Jonathan Rubin, “Benoit d’Alignan and Thomas Agni: Two Western Intellectuals and the Study of Oriental Christianity in Thirteenth-century Kingdom of Jerusalem”

L. J. Sackville, “The Inquisitor’s Manual at Work”

Fabrizio Titone, “Aragonese Sicily as a Model of Late Medieval State Building”

Julia Verkholantsev, “St. Jerome As a Slavic Apostle in Luxemburg Bohemia”

Anastasia G. Yangaki, “A First Overview of Late Medieval Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula in Greece”

Cynthia Turner Camp, “Osbern Bokenham and the House of York Revisited”

Megan K. Williams, “Intercepted Love-Letters: Reporting the 1535 Apostolic Nunciature to Hungary”