VIATOR 56:1 (2025)

Viator Cluster: Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair

Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair: An Introduction
Dawn LaValle Norman and Lea Niccolai

Male Hair and Medical Discourse in Clement of Alexandria
Clayton J. Killion

The Spaces and Morals of Male Body Waxing in Clement of Alexandria and His Contemporaries
Dawn LaValle Norman

Platonic Hair: The Symbolism of Beard and Baldness in Emperor Julian’s Misopogon and Synesius’s Praise of Baldness
Lea Niccolai

Long Hair, Oxcarts, and Sea Beasts: Reconsidering Merovingian Sacral Kingship
Carlo Ferrari

Shorn Head and Episcopal Power: The Beginnings of Clerical Tonsure
Robert Wiśniewski

Tonsure and Punitive Shaving in Early Medieval Byzantium
Mike Humphreys

Shaving Hair and the Maintenance of Confessional Boundaries in Jewish Sources from the Early Islamic Period
Moshe Yagur

Beard as Veil: Hair and the Past in Latin Ecclesiastical Commentary
Michael Barbezat

Elements of Muslim Style: Islamic Etiquette on How to Groom a Distinguished Beard
Youshaa Patel

Godly Grooming: Pubic Hair, Religious Community, and the Construction of Tradition
Simon Goldhill

Shaving Faces in Religious Communities: Theory, Practice, and Visual Dynamics
Patricia Simons

The Growth and Erasure of the Papal Beard
Miles Pattenden

Articles

The Earliest Reference to a Vandal King Crocus
J. R. Webb

Social Network Analysis and Medieval Literature: The Case Study of Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors
Michael Philip Penn, Zuyi Zhao, Zelig Dov, Julia Spector, and Sunil Persad

Narrative Frames in the Dialogues of Religious Controversy: The Case of Gilbert Crispin’s and Peter of Cornwall’s Disputes
Natalia Jakubecki

Divided by a Common Auditory Landscape: The Local Resonance of Sound and Rebellion in Fourteenth-Century St. Albans
Emma W. Olson

Icon to Image: René of Anjou, Cultural Interaction, and Non-European Aesthetics
Bryony Coombs

Printing Medieval Catalan Historiography and the Politics of Dynastic Exemplarity in Habsburg Spain
Albert Lloret

The Mestizo Identity of the Spaniards: The Memory of Ethnic Intermixture in Early Modern Spain
Fernando Bravo López