Comitatus

A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Comitatus, published annually by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, showcases research articles and book reviews by graduate students and recent PhDs working in any field of late antique, medieval, Renaissance, early modern, or early global studies.

Comitatus is available through the Project MUSE online collection, beginning with Volume 33 (2002).

Volumes 1–32 are available through the California Digital Library.

Please direct your questions about submissions or subscriptions to Dr. Allison McCann, Managing Editor (allisonmccann@humnet.ucla.edu). Submissions are reviewed by the Editorial Board from March to May each year. To receive our annual calls for papers and book reviews, write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu to be added to the CMRS-CEGS mailing list.

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Volume 56 (2025) OPEN ACCESS

Editors: Stanley Wu (English, UCLA)
Editorial Board: Alba Menéndez Pereda (Archaeology, UCLA), Jodie Miller (European Language & Transcultural Studies, UCLA), Christian Reyes (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA)
Managing Editor: Allison McCann (CMRS-CEGS, UCLA)

Table of Contents:

• The Sword in the Mere: Transcultural Memory, Nationhood, and the Case for Brittonic Influence in Beowulf
  Tristan Gutbezahl
• Authorizing Islam and Christianity: Examining the Spiritual Authority Between Iberian Mudejares and Muslim Jurists, 9th–16th Centuries
  Zaid Ali
• Translatio populorum—Translatio virtutis: A Typological Rethinking of Translatio imperii in Twelfth-Century Historiography
  Stefan Vujić
• The Tears of Kököchin: Bodies, Sexuality, and Suffering in Marco Polo’s Asia
  Tommaso Pepe
• Unfolding Dante’s Map: Spatial Meaning, Moral Cartography, and Epistemology in the Commedia
  Hugo Fortin
• Compiling Vices, Curating Hell, and Sinners on Display: Museological and Encyclopedic Readings of Trecento and Quattrocento Hell Scenes
  Olga Todorović
• Like a Hound upon Its Quarry: Noble Animals as Elements of Knightly Material Culture, ca. 1350–1425
  Robert Williamson
• Monarchical Deafness: Archbishop Scrope’s Rebellion in Henry IV, Part 2 and the Cess Controversy in Tudor Ireland
  Zhou Shiyue
• Battle of the Bruts: A Comparative Reading of MSS 224 and 253 at the University of Chicago
  Rebecca Onken
• Reviews

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