Viator, the Center's scholarly journal, now in its thirty-ninth year, 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 currently appears twice annually. Volume 39, no. 1 (Spring 2008) and Volume 39 no. 2 can be ordered from Brepols Publishers in Belgium: publishers@brepols.com. Beginning in 2010, Viator will be published in three issues per year: two issues will contain articles in English, and one will contain articles in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
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), Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers), Walter Pohl (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Wien), Richard H. Rouse (UCLA), and Adeline Rucquoi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Editorial Consultants: Peter D. Diehl (Western Washington University), Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Occidental College), Robert J. Hudson (Brigham Young University), Scott Kleinman (California State University, Northridge), and Kristen Lee Over (Northeastern Illinois University)
Viator 40, no. 1 (Spring 2009)
“Varieties of Early Irish Legal Literature and the Cáin Lánamna Fragments,” CHARLENE M. ESKA
“Philosophy, ca. 950–ca. 1050,” C. STEPHEN JAEGER
“Bestowing Pardon and Favor: Emperor Henry III’s Pardons in Context,” ATRIA A. LARSON
“John of Salisbury’s Second Letter Collection in Later Medieval England: Unexamined Fragments from Huntington Library HM 128,” KAREN BOLLERMANN AND CARY J. NEDERMAN
Ovidian Exile in the Letters of Peter of Blois (ca. 1135–1212),” STEPHEN HANAPHY
“Behind the Scenes of a Revision: Michael Scot and the Oldest Manuscript of His Abbreviatio Avicenne,” ERIK KWAKKEL
“The White and Black Confraternities of Toulouse and the Albigensian Crusade, 1210–1211,” LAURENCE W. MARVIN
“Ne de ineffabili penitus taceamus: Aspects of the Specialized Vocabulary of the Writings of Thomas Gallus,” DECLAN LAWELL
De-Centering the Narratives and Privileging Proverbs: Two Early Modern Readings of the Conde Lucanor,” MICHAEL HAMMER
“Marco Polo, Odorico of Pordenone, the Crusades, and the Role of the Vernacular in the First Descriptions of the Indies,” ANTONIO GARCÍA ESPADA
“Philippe de Mézière’s Life of Saint Pierre de Thomas at the Crossroads of Late Medieval Hagiography and Crusading Ideology,” RENATE BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI
“Alternate Routes: Variation in Early Modern Stational Devotions,” MITZI KIRKLAND-IVES
“British Library MS Harley 2253: A New Reading of the Passion Lyrics in Their Manuscript Context,” NANCY VINE DURLING
“The Economy of Need in Late Medieval English Literature,” ANDREW GALLOWAY
“The Projects of Marriage: Spousal Choice, Dowries, and Domestic Service in Early Fifteenth-Century Valenci,” DANA WESSELL LIGHTFOOT
“The Auffahrtabend Prophecy and Henry of Langenstein: German Adaptation and Transmission of the ‘Visio fratris Johannis,’” JENNIFER KOLPACOFF DEANE
“Common Ground for Contrasting Ideologies: The Texts and Contexts of A Schort Reule of Lif,” MARY RASCHKO
Volume 40, no. 2 (Autumn 2009)
“De dignitate conditionis humanae: Translation, Commentary, and Reception History of the Dicta Albini (Ps.-Alcuin) and the Dicta Candidi,” METTE LEBECH AND JAMES MCEVOY WITH JOHN FLOOD
“‘Democratic’ Action in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Michael Attaleiates’s ‘Republicanism’ in Context,” DIMITRIS KRALLIS
“The Purposeful Patron: Political Covenant in the Salerno Ivories, ” ELIZABETH C. COREY
“Demetrius of Thessaloniki: Patron Saint of Crusaders,” ELIZABETH LAPINA
“Trouble in the Island of the Mighty: Kinship and Violence in Branwen ferch Lŷr,” LESLEY JACOBS
“The Kingdom of Sicily and the Early University Movement,” PAUL OLDFIELD
“The Process of State-Formation in Medieval Iceland,” SVERRIR JAKOBSSON
“Liturgy and the Spiritual Experience of Religious Women at Santa Maria de Vallbona, Catalonia,” MICHELLE M. HERDER
“The de Reys (1220–1501): The Evolution of a ‘Middle-Class’ Muslim Family in Christian Aragón,” BRIAN A. CATLOS
“Priestly Marriage: The Tradition of Clerical Concubinage in the Spanish Church,” MICHELLE ARMSTRONG-PARTIDA
“The Story of Engle and Scardying: Fragment of an Anglo-Norman Chronicle Roll,” DON C. SKEMER
“Practice and Knowledge in a Medieval Livre de Raison,” IONUEPURESCU-PASCOVICI
“Rethinking the Recensions of the Confessio Amantis,” WIM LINDEBOOM
“Treating of Virtue: Intertextuality in a Fifteenth-Century Spanish Miscellany,” MICHAEL HAMMER
“Laughter in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel: Utopia as Extra-Textual Place,” MEREDITH CLERMONT-FERRAND
“Forking Paths in Sixteenth-Century Philosophy: Charles de Bovelles and Giordano Bruno,” CESARE CATÀ
