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.

We are pleased to announce that, beginning with vol. 51, Viator now publishes color images in every issue. Please refer to these guidelines when preparing your manuscript for submission.

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• Editor: Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA)
• Managing Editor: Allison McCann (CMRS-CEGS, UCLA)
• Editorial Board: 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); Roberta Morosini (UCLA); 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 54.2
Contents

SPECIAL SECTION: FIELD FUTURES

• How Early before It Is Too Late? “Medieval” Periodization, Epistemic Change, and the Institution
  ZRINKA STAHULJAK

VIATOR CLUSTER: RITUALS IN THE MIDDLES AGES

• Rituals in the Middle Ages: At the Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
  SINI KANGAS
• Liturgy and Ritual Space in Latin Jerusalem
  IRIS SHAGRIR
• Legal Rituals and the Church: Evolving Rituals in Swedish Provincial Laws, 1200–1350
  MIA KORPIOLA
• From Episcopal Dubbing to Sacrament of Confirmation (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)
  MARTIN AURELL
• Prayers by the Crusader Knights: Ritual Observation and Literary Adaptations in the Narratives of the First Crusade
  SINI KANGAS
• The Appearance of Ritual: Old French as an Outline Language of the Latin Texts of the Winchester Psalter
  VLADIMIR AGRIGOROAEI
• “Good sauore and deuocyon”: Attention in Devotional Ritual
  KATHERINE ZIEMAN

ARTICLES

• Infant Burials and Coastal Communities in Italy and the Mediterranean between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  ANNAMARIA PAZIENZA
• Conspersio: An Isidorean Intervention in the Old English Hierdeboc
  RYAN HALL
• Celestial Phenomena of 1097/98 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade
  ELIZABETH LAPINA
• Jerusalem on the Stage of World History: The Jaffa Treaty (1229) and the Historians
  ILAN SHOVAL
• The Women of the Gate: Ecclesiastical Neighborhood Development in Late Medieval Genoa
  LEE MORRISON
• Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Public Image Creation: Philip Melanchthon’s Inaugural Oration (1518)
  ISABELLA WALSER-BÜRGLER
• Manna and the Mystery of Non-Death in the Late Medieval Liturgy of St. John the Evangelist: From Ephesus to ’S-Hertogenbosch
  CATHERINE SAUCIER