Viator 52, No 1 (2021)

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.

VIATOR CLUSTER: HUMANS AND ANIMALS ON THE MOVE

Humans and Animals on the Move

PRZEMYSŁAW MARCINIAK 1

Of Monks and Movable Beasts: Animals as Fellow Travelers in the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis

AYLIN MALCOLM 7

Always by Your Side – A Special Relationship: Ibn Abī l-Ashʿath on Humans and Horses

JENS OLE SCHMITT 17

Diplomatic Exchange of Animals during the Reign of the Ilkhan Abū Saʿīd

LEON VOLFOVSKY 31

Elephant Diplomacy: A Disturbing Gift for the Khagan of the Avars

MARCO CRISTINI 49

The Dog as Faithful Christian in Alfonso de Espina’s Fortalitium fidei

ANA L. MENDEZ-OLIVER 61

Caput lupinum: Appropriating and Rewriting the Wolf Motif in the Gesta Herewardi’s Literary Landscape

KIMBERLY LIFTON 75

Animal Auguries and Evangelization in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

CHRIS VALESEY 87

"Hunger hard": Food Scarcity and Animal Slaughter in King Richard

MEGAN LONSINGER 101

REGULAR ESSAYS

The Kriegsfahne of Queen Gerberga and the Liudolfing Ascendancy in the West

FRASER MCNAIR 115

Baddo, "Daughter of Arthur, King of England": Some Medieval Evidence of the Arthurian Filiation Attributed to a Sixth-Century Visigothic Queen

HELENE SIRANTOINE 137

The Function of Twelfth-Century Form in the Chronicle of Richard of Devizes

MARISA LIBBON 171

Paris-Babylon/Paris-Jerusalem: Masculinity, Moral Contagion, and the Founding of the Earliest Parisian Colleges

CHARLES CARROLL 211

"The soul loves its own flesh": Death and Dying in the Helfta Literature and Bernard’s Sermons on the Song of Songs

JESSICA BARR 249

"For those who have been made worthy of favor by new conversion": Angevin Policies toward Jews and Converts in Naples and Provence, 1285–1309

JESSICA MARIN ELLIOTT 279

Greek and Philohellenism in England during the Long Thirteenth Century: The Evidence from the Books of the Religious Houses

CARLOTTA BARRANU 319

Judicial Processes for and against Bishop Reginald Pecock: New Perspectives on the Mechanisms of His Downfall

HENRY ANSGAR KELLY 359

Sapi Export Ivories and Manueline Art: A Connected History

LUIS URBANO AFONSO 431