Viator, the Center's scholarly journal, publishes articles of distinction in any field of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the mid-seventeenth century. In keeping with its title, the journal gives special consideration to articles that cross frontiers: articles that focus on meetings between cultures, that pursue an idea through the centuries, that employ the methods of different disciplines simultaneously.
Viator is published in three issues per year: two issues contain articles in English, and one contains articles in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Issues of Viator can be ordered from Brepols Publishers in Belgium: periodicals@brepols.net.
Editorial Board: Courtney M. Booker (University of British Columbia), Michael Borgolte (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jean-Claude Carron (UCLA), Costantino Esposito (Università di Bari), Matthew Fisher (UCLA), Patrick J. Geary (UCLA), Sharon Gerstel (UCLA), Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, Christchurch), Fabrizio Meroi (Università di Trento), Constant Mews (Monash University), Cary J. Nederman (Texas A&M University), Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham University), Kristen Lee Over (Northeastern Illinois University), Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers), Walter Pohl (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Wien), Richard M. Pollard (UCLA), Richard H. Rouse (UCLA), Adeline Rucquoi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Viator 43, no. 1 (2012)
Albrecht Diem, “New Ideas Expressed in Old Words: The Regula Donati on Female Monastic Life and Monastic Spirituality”
Christine Williamson, “Bede’s Hymn to St. Agnes of Rome: The Virgin Martyr as a Male Monastic Exemplum”
Paul J. Stapleton, “Kontrastimitation and Typology in Alcuin’s York Poem”
Dana M. Polanichka, “Transforming Space, (Per)forming Community: Church Consecration in Carolingian Europe”
John H. Arnold and Caroline Goodson, “Resounding Community: The History and Meaning of Medieval Church Bells”
Sean Gilsdorf, “Deēsis Deconstructed: Imagining Intercession in the Medieval West”
John Reuben Davies, “Old Testament Personal Names among the Britons: Their Occurrence and Significance before the Twelfth Century”
Mark P. Mullane, “The Eleventh-Century Milieu for an Episode in a Thirteenth-Century Fornaldarsaga”
Brian D. FitzGerald, “Time, History, and Mutability in Hugh of St. Victor’s Homilies on Ecclesiastes and De vanitate mundi”
Sara Sturm-Maddox, “Altissima verba: the Laureate Poet and the King of Naples”
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, “A Copy of Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos, Printed by Hermann Lichtenstein in Vicenza ca. 1475 with Illumination Attributable to Giovanni Vendramin”
Pnina Arad, “Pilgrimage, Cartography, and Devotion: William Wey’s Map of the Holy Land”
Melissa Raine, “‘Full knyghtly he ete his mete’: Consumption and Social Prowess in Malory’s Tale of Gareth”
Mercedes Salvador-Bello, “Patterns of Compilation in Anglo-Latin Enigmata and the Evidence of a Source-Collection in Riddles 1–40 of the Exeter Book”
Hannah Matis, “Ratramnus of Corbie, Heinrich Bullinger, and the English Reformation”
Viator 43, no. 2 (2012)
Gregory I. Halfond, “Charibert I and the Episcopal Leadership of the Kingdom of Paris (561–567)”
Roy Flechner, “The Problem of Originality in Early Medieval Canon Law: Legislating by Means of Contradictions in the Collectio Hibernensis”
Sverre Bagge, “The Model Emperor: Einhard’s Charlemagne in Widukind and Rahewin”
Paul Dalton, “The Accession of King Henry I, August 1100”
Ellen K. Rentz, “Castles for St. William: The Late Medieval Commemoration of York’s Local Saint”
Bernard F. Reilly, “The De Rebus Hispanie and the Mature Latin Chronicle in the Iberian Middle Ages”
Jennifer Saltzstein, “Cleric-trouvères and the Jeux-Partis of Medieval Arras”
Tracy Adams, “Between History and Fiction: Revisiting the Affaire de la Tour de Nesle”
Miriam Müller, “Arson, Communities, and Social Conflict in Later Medieval England”
Laura Slater, “Queen Isabella of France and the Politics of the Taymouth Hours”
P. J. P. Goldberg, “From Tableaux to Text: the York Corpus Christi Play ca. 1378–1428”
Chet Van Duzer, “A Neglected type of Medieval Mappamundi and Its Re-imaging in the Mare Historiarum (BnF MS Lat. 4915, Fol. 26v)”
Michael Johnston, “New Evidence for the Social Reach of ‘Popular Romance’: The Books of Household Servants”
Richard F. Hardin, “The Reception of Plautus in Northern Europe: The Earlier Sixteenth Century”
Hilary Gatti, “Bruno’s Candelaio and Possible Echoes in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson”
Vasileios Syros, “Shadows in Heaven and Clouds on Earth: The Emergence of Social Life and Political Authority in the Early Modern Islamic Empires”
Volume 43 Multilingual (2012)
David Alonso García, “El fenómeno del arrendamiento de rentas reales en Castilla en los siglos XVI y XVII: nuevas vías de análisis”
Stefano U. Baldassarri, “Lorenzo Ghiberti e Giovan Battista Gelli tra autobiografia e biografia”
Esperanza Bermejo Larrea, “Tiempo pasado y espacio hostil en Le Haut Livre du Graal (Perlesvaus)”
Luigi Andrea Berto, “Linguaggio, contenuto testuale, autori e destinatari nella Langobardia meridionale. Il caso della cosiddetta dedica della Historia Langobardorum Beneventanorum di Erchemperto”
Michael Borgolte, “Weshalb der Islam seit dem Mittelalter zu Europa gehört”
Virginia Iommi Echeverría, “La imagen del hemisferio sur en la Esfera de Sacrobosco y su lectura en el Renacimiento italiano”
Rubén Florio, “Incoherencias del Waltharius: Reyes, Héroes y Antihéroes. La Leyenda y la Historia”
Damaris Gehr, “La fittizia associazione del Liber Razielis in sette libri ad Alfonso X il Saggio e una nuova determinazione delle fasi redazionali del trattato, della loro datazione e dell’identità dei compilatori coinvolti”
Marina Lushchenko, “La figure du barbare turc dans le discours politique et civilisationnal français du moyen âge (XIIe–XVe siècles)”
Aurélie Mercier, “Le manuscrit composite ‘B.M. Tours, MS 193’: un codex révélateur, au XIIe siècle, d’une ‘mémoire culturelle’ identitaire collective”
Alessandro Palazzo, “Refuga legis ac Christi hostis e subtilis Commentator: Averroè nelle opere di Dionigi il Certosino”
Bruno Petey-Girard, “Les rois, les poètes et les psaumes. Sur quelques contextes des premières mises en vers français du Psautier (c. 1540–c. 1550)”
Paul Predatsch, “Räumlichkeit in der Universalchronik Ottos von Freising”
Carrie L. Ruiz, “Armas y escudos del amor: Dimensiones sociales del lenguaje en el Libro de buen amor”
Barbara Schlieben, “Von der Schwierigkeit, alles anders als der Vater zu machen. Worte, Werke, Amt und ‘Selbst’ im Llibre dels fets Königs Jakob von Aragón (1213–1276)”
Cécile Voyer, “Deus est sphaera infinita: Réflexions sur l’image de l’Histoire dans la Bible historiale (à partir du manuscrit 8 de la BnF)”
A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (2011) Medieval Manuscripts , Their Users and Makers
The essays in this collection pertain to art history, medieval Latin culture both ecclesiastic and legal, the history of vernacular literatures and the devotional practices of the laity. They reflect the patronage of authors, and manuscript painters, from the royal through the monastic to the urban middle class, and they trace the sometimes astonishing afterlife of manuscripts. The subject matter of these studies ranges chronologically from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, adding the emergent medievalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its geographic breadth extends through the major Western cultures and literatures, from England to Italy, Germany and France. Its wide range in time and space reflects the lifetime of manuscript research, teaching, and collecting by its honorees, Richard and Mary Rouse.
A particular emphasis distinguishes this volume from other such collections: its stress on the use, and usefulness, of medieval manuscripts in the teaching of most historical disciplines in Western culture, from the broad undergraduate survey (of art, literature, history) to the specialized graduate seminar. In the last half century, public colleges and universities have increasingly appreciated the pedagogical opportunities inherent in building, through gift and purchase, collections of medieval manuscripts, formerly thought to be the province only of wealthy private schools. No similar collection of manuscript studies exhibits so clearly the role of medieval manuscripts in teaching.
The specialist authors represented in this volume have displayed, over the whole of their careers, an ability to combine the highest caliber of research with an eagerness to make their subject accessible to others, through teaching and writing and public lectures. The essays offer the results of new and sometimes technical research, set forth in a manner intelligible not only to the expert but to the interested amateur.
ITALIAN HISTORY AND HUMANISM
Carrie Benes, “Noble and Most Ancient: Catalogues of City Foundation in Fourteenth-Century Italy”
Peter Kidd, “UCLA Rouse MS 32: The Provenance of a Dismembered Italian Book of Hours Illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Initials”
TEXTUAL STUDIES
Stacey R. Graham, “The Transmission of North African Texts to Europe in Late Antiquity”
Laura Light, “Non-biblical Texts in Thirteenth-Century Bibles”
François Avril, “Jean le Noir et Saint-Martin-des-Champs”
M. François Dolbeau, “La bibliothèque des Dominicains de Bâle au XVe siècle: fragment inédit d'un catalogue alphabétique”
Bonnie Effros, “Writing History from Manuscript and Artifact: Building an Object-Based Narrative of the Middle Ages in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France”
The essays in this collection pertain to art history, medieval Latin culture both ecclesiastic and legal, the history of vernacular literatures and the devotional practices of the laity. They reflect the patronage of authors, and manuscript painters, from the royal through the monastic to the urban middle class, and they trace the sometimes astonishing afterlife of manuscripts. The subject matter of these studies ranges chronologically from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, adding the emergent medievalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its geographic breadth extends through the major Western cultures and literatures, from England to Italy, Germany and France. Its wide range in time and space reflects the lifetime of manuscript research, teaching, and collecting by its honorees, Richard and Mary Rouse. 