{"title":"The black rood of Scotland: A social and political life","authors":"J. Grigg","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.116348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.116348","url":null,"abstract":"The Black Rood of Scotland was a Christian royal reliquary intimately connected to the secular realm of medieval warfare and the bitter skirmishes between the Scots and English. While no longer ext...","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"53-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87082805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William the Conqueror’s March on London: A Logistical Analysis","authors":"B. Bachrach","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.115979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.115979","url":null,"abstract":"William the Conqueror won a decisive victory over the Anglo-Saxons at Hastings on 14 October 1066. The English army largely was destroyed and the leadership, e.g. King Harold and his brothers, was ...","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"115-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85152933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Henricus Petri's Editions of Suetonius. Printing and Commenting the Lives of the Twelve Caesars in Sixteenth-Century Basle","authors":"Marijke Crab","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.115324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.115324","url":null,"abstract":"The present article offers a close study of three successive editions of Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars printed in the Basle Officina Henricpetrina between 1537 and 1560. Though conspicuou...","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"297-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74678266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Mannen van Wapenen”: The Baesweiler Campaign and the Military Labor Market of the County of Loon in the Fourteenth Century","authors":"S. Govaerts","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.112361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.112361","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the background and recruiting mechanisms of horsemen from the County of Loon who fought for the duke of Brabant at the battle of Baesweiler, 22 August 1371. It argues that socioeconomic incentives had a major role in fourteenth-century military recruitment and that the service of these men can be studied as a form of labor. The County of Loon became involved in the duke’s war effort through recruitment at different levels in which noblemen mobilized their relatives, friends and retainers. Mounted military service remained strongly associated with noble status, resulting in every man able to equip himself as a heavy cavalryman with two horses, a man-at-arms, being considered as noble to some degree. The article contextualizes the presence of these warriors within a larger spectrum of military service opportunities, and argues that chivalric ideals and military service as a form of labor are complementary.","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"297-342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90174471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wolf’s Hair, Exposed Digits, and Muslim Holy Men: the Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum and the Conte of Ernoul","authors":"J. H. Kane","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.111228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.111228","url":null,"abstract":"The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum, an anonymous, contemporary account of the fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 written in Latin prose, displays several narrative parallels with the various Old French continuations of William of Tyre’s Historia. The similar versions of Count Raymond III of Tripoli’s speech on the eve of the Battle of Ḥaṭṭīn that are furnished in these texts highlight the connection particularly strongly. Close analysis of this and other points of textual correspondence establishes that the author of the Libellus probably drew on an embryonic form of the vernacular account (conte) that Ernoul, a squire in the service of Balian of Ibelin, composed to present his master’s role in the events of 1187 in the best possible light. Demonstrating this link challenges us to reassess our understanding of the composition of the Libellus and the early influence of Ernoul’s chronicle.","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"95-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89393753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masculine Identity and the Rustics of Romance in Chrétien's Erec and Yvain","authors":"Michael Ovens","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.109466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.109466","url":null,"abstract":"In his interwoven representations of a dwarf, a peasant, and a giant in the romances of Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion and Erec et Enide, Chretien de Troyes indicates the existence of a knightly anxiety over the social station of knighthood with respect to its common-born inferiors. The coherence of this class of knighthood was predicated on a distinction between nobility and servility, a distinction threatened by the upward mobility of an emerging common-born mercantile class in the twelfth century. With knights unable to respond directly on account of their vows to protect their social inferiors, this unresolved threat of existential dissolution produced in Chretien’s works a sense of anxiety surrounding literary representations of characters of imputed common birth. The defeat of these common-born antagonists by knightly protagonists offered noble audiences a cathartic release through the affirmation of the social distinctiveness of knighthood.","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"45-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84286319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise of Graphicacy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages","authors":"I. Garipzanov","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.105359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.105359","url":null,"abstract":"Diagrams, maps, and other forms of graphic visualization are nowadays discussed as a specific mode of communication, graphicacy, typical of the modern age with its ever-increasing role of visual media in social life. This essay questions this tendency to see graphicacy as a by-product of modernity by surveying various forms of representational graphic signs and systems that were placed on various media in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, and it suggests that this graphic material should be seen as expressions of the very same mode of communication rising at the time of the sociocultural-and more specifically, religious-transformation of the late Roman and post-Roman worlds. With reference to this graphic evidence, early graphicacy is defined as a mode of visual communication of conceptual information and abstract ideas by means of non-figural graphic devices, which may comprise inscribed letters, words, and isolated decorative symbols.","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83943978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vitae Vergili and Florentine Intellectual Life to the Fifteenth Century","authors":"Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.105372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.105372","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines Virgil’s alleged interest in Platonic philosophy, sketched out in his Lives, and its contribution to the image of the philosopher-poet as defined by Dante and Petrarch. Both poets read closely the Lives of Virgil and sought in them guidance for their own poetic missions. Here I argue that Petrarch tried to defend Dante’s misunderstood Divine Comedy by presenting him as a devotee of Platonic allegoresis of the same caliber as Virgil. His efforts were continued by Landino who wished to accommodate both poets to the intellectual background of Medicean Florence. In negotiating the tension between poetry and philosophy Landino-an accomplished poet himself-is willing to recognize the contribution of allegory to introducing philosophical enquiry to the masses, although he eventually decides to embrace the pursuit of philosophy per se.","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"335-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87745963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hagiography and History in the Icelandic Saga of Edward the Confessor","authors":"Nicole Marafioti","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.103502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.103502","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the historical context of Jatvarðar saga, the Icelandic saga of the English saint, King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066). Compiled from a variety of Norse and Latin sources, the saga survives in four medieval manuscripts and demonstrates a persistent interest in Edward’s life and legacy. Yet although the saga has often been categorized as a saint’s life, there is no evidence that Edward was the subject of an Icelandic cult; moreover, the text focuses extensively on political history and lacks the hallmarks of Old Norse hagiographical writing. Accordingly, I propose that Jatvarðar saga was not composed as a devotional text. Instead, I argue that Edward was portrayed as a model of lay piety who supported the Church and clergy - a valuable exemplar for Icelandic magnates at a time of ecclesiastical reform.","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"93-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79945938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Textual and Material Investigation on the Autography of Laurent de Premierfait’s Original Manuscripts","authors":"Olivier Delsaux","doi":"10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.102930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.102930","url":null,"abstract":"Depuis le debut du XXe siecle, les historiens de la miniature et du livre ont pu identifier des manuscrits originaux du poete, traducteur et humaniste Laurent de Premierfait. Ces identifications, souvent incertaines, se sont basees sur l'analyse de l'intelligence du programme iconographique et sur les indices de possession des manuscrits conserves. Cet article entend, d'une part, proposer une perspective textuelle sur ces identifications et, d'autre part, interroger la question, latente, de l'autographie de certains d'entre eux. En mettant en oeuvre une approche globale des manuscrits consideres jusqu'ici comme des manuscrits originaux (etude des graphies, des traces, du peritexte, des marques de fabrique) et en les confrontant aux documents notaries autographes de l'auteur, l'article demontre qu'il a existe deux transcripteurs principaux des manuscrits originaux et que Laurent de Premierfait a relu et corrige la plupart d'entre eux. Au travers de cette analyse, l'article identifie plusieurs nouveaux manuscrits originaux de l'auteur (Bruxelles, KBR, IV 920 ; Vienne, ONB, SN 12766 ; Paris, BnF, lat. 7907 ; Londres, BL, Burney 257).","PeriodicalId":39588,"journal":{"name":"Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"299-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81929986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}