VIATOR 55:1 (2024)

Viator  Cluster: Early Global Insularities

Early Global Insularities: Archipelagos and Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Texts - Sara V. Torres and Nahir I. Otaño Gracia

Theorizing Insular Exceptionalism in the Early Medieval North Atlantic - Tarren Andrews

When the Mountains Were Islands: Landing Noah’s Ark on the Shores of Afghan History- Tanvir Ahmed

Mary’s Miraculous Islands: Fear of Flooding and the Island as a Haven of Divine Benevolence in Sixteenth-Century Poetry Contests in Normandy - John Nassichuk

Response - Sebastian Sobecki

Between the Arabic Language and the Frontiers of Knowledge: Al-Ḥarīrī’s Unknown Island in the "Maqāma of Oman" - Rama Alhabian

Gog, Magog, and Alexander’s Wall: Racializing Discourses in the Ethiopic Alexander Romance- Yonatan Binyam

Transinsular Metapoetics: Island Forms in Raleigh and Bacon - Christopher M. Lasasso

Response - Sarah Davis-Secord

Island Cetology - Andrea Walkden

Conjuring Ethiopia: Blackness as Dignity in Juan Latino’s Poetry - Jonathan F. Correa Reyes

The Exiled Pirate: Double Agents, Revenge, and Finding Home in Cervantine Fiction - Alexander J. Korte

"To try the difference": Encountering a Different Self in Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines - Andrew Fleck

Response - Carmen Nocentelli

De Solistitionis insula magna: There and Back Again to a Paradise Island; Approach to the Supernatural, Space, and Belief in Medieval Galicia (11th–12th Centuries) - Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez

"Aliqua nostra navigia transeuntia per insulas": Venetian Networks of Islands  - Nicola Carotenuto

"A thousand miles of troubled sea we sailed": The Island as a Moral Guide in Daniello Bartoli’s Geography (1664) - Elisa Frei and Laura Madella

Response - Nahir I. Otaño Gracia

Articles

Saint Vincent Is Here: Universally Local Cults in Early Medieval Iberia - Kati Ihnat and Melanie Shaffer

Beyond the Narrative: A Study of Medieval German Jewish Martyrs’ Lists - Tzafrir Barzilay

Implementing the Guidonian Revolution: John of Affligem and the Cause of Reform 1030–1100 - Constant Mews

Drawing Analogies in Late Medieval Europe: Diversity, Individuality, and Playfulness - Ayelet Even-Ezra

Utilitas and Curiositas: The Origins, Intentions, and Receptions of Middle English Artisanal Recipes - Mark Clarke

The Heraldic Badge as a Rhetorical Tool in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Falcon and the Fetterlock - Marcin Kudła

Bishop John Alcock’s Profession-Day Sermon for Nuns - Mary C. Erler