Viator 53, No 1 (2022)

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.

Ex Oriente, Rex: Imperial Saviors in the Wake of Islam

Matthew O’Farrell

"Bad speech corrupts good morals": The Context and Subtext of Gunzo of Novara’s Letter to the Monks of Reichenau

Justin Lake

Speech Representation in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne as a Pedagogical Tool

Sara M. Pons-Sanz

Encountering the Medieval Altar: A Set of Seventeen Chapel Inventories from Burgos Cathedral (1369)

Maeve Marta O’Donnell

Painful Pageantry: The Local Circumstances of Royal Visitations in Late Medieval Iberia

Thomas W. Barton

Bazene, Cheverel, and Lasche: Middle English Recipes for Red Dyed Skins, Their European Parallels, and Alexandrian Precursors

Mark Clarke

Enigmatic Phrases above Two Ptolemaic World Maps from 1482

Chet Van Duzer

How to Survive in the Renaissance Tatar Crimea: Ławryn Piaseczyński’s Ambassador’s Duties in the Context of His Unique Diplomatic Experiences

Michał E. Nowakowski

The Bison Trail through the Hercynian Forest: Names, Images, and Identities in Ptolemy’s Tabula Europae IV and Münster’s Cosmographia

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Conceptualizing War in Balthasar Russow’s Chronica der Prouintz Lyfflandt

Joseph Sproule