Viator
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
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.
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- Editor: Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA)
- Managing Editor: Allison McCann (CMRS-CEGS, UCLA)
- Editorial Board: Roberta Morosini (UCLA); Javier Patiño Loira (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA); Peter Stacey (History, UCLA); Erica Weaver (English, UCLA); Bronwen Wilson (Art History, UCLA); Luke Yarbrough (Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA)
- Extended Editorial Board: Thomas Barton (University of San Diego); Michal Biran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Jessalynn Bird (Saint Mary’s College); Cécile Fromont (Yale University); Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech); Afrodesia McCannon (New York University); Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham University); Wen-chin Ouyang (SOAS University of London); Amanda Power (University of Oxford); Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University); Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven); Christian Sahner (University of Oxford); Tatiana Seijas (Rutgers University); Leah Shopkow (Indiana University Bloomington); Misha Teramura (University of Toronto); Torfi Tulinius (University of Iceland)
Thanks to a generous anonymous donation, the Viator Editorial Board has inaugurated the Andy Kelly Prize for Best Article in Viator. Learn more about the prize and the 2024 awardee here.
Viator 56.1 (2025)
Contents
| 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 |