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Papers

(The TQCC of Viator-Medieval and Renaissance Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Exiled Pirate: Double Agents, Revenge, and Finding Home in Cervantine Fiction	2
Between the Arabic Language and the Frontiers of Knowledge: Al-Ḥarīrī’s Unknown Island in the “Maqāma of Oman”	2
Shaving Hair and the Maintenance of Confessional Boundaries in Jewish Sources from the Early Islamic Period	2
“Aliqua nostra navigia transeuntia per insulas”: Venetian Networks of Islands	1
Conjuring Ethiopia: Blackness as Dignity in Juan Latino’s Poetry	0
“May she endure as worthy and chosen”: Queenship and Gender in the Medieval English Coronation Orders	0
Insular Imaginaries: A Response	0
A Codex of Conversion: Centering the Role of Religious and Spiritual Change in BNF Français 375 via Robert d’Orbigny and Gautier de Coincy	0
The Ashes of the Phoenix: Messianic Hope in British Eschatology after the Death of Henry Stuart	0
Celestial Phenomena of 1097/98 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade	0
Ships at Sea: Etchings for the 1608 Argonautica	0
Prayers by the Crusader Knights: Ritual Observation and Literary Adaptations in the Narratives of the First Crusade	0
Painting and Shipbuilding: Carpaccio’s Art of Transformation	0
Rituals in the Middle Ages: At the Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean	0
St. Vincent Is Here: Universally Local Cults in Early Medieval Iberia	0
Tonsure and Punitive Shaving in Early Medieval Byzantium	0
Theorizing Insular Exceptionalism in the Early Medieval North Atlantic	0
How Early before It Is Too Late? “Medieval” Periodization, Epistemic Change, and the Institution	0
The Long Coexistence of Parchment and Paper in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Manuscript Culture	0
Tracing Proteus: A Possible Identity for “Godefroiz de Leigni,” the Continuator of Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot	0
Shorn Head and Episcopal Power: The Beginnings of Clerical Tonsure	0
No Island Is an Island: A Response	0
Manna and the Mystery of Non-Death in the Late Medieval Liturgy of St. John the Evangelist: From Ephesus to ’S-Hertogenbosch	0
Mucking About with Islands: A Response	0
From Matter to Spirit: The Front Cover of the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram	0

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When the Mountains Were Islands: Landing Noah’s Ark on the Shores When the Mountains Were Islands: Landing Noah’s Ark on the Shores	0
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The Romantic Death of Richard the Lionheart	0
“Good sauore and deuocyon”: Attention in Devotional Ritual	0
“To try the difference”: Encountering a Different Self in Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines	0
Conspersio: An Isidorean Intervention in the Old English Hierdeboc	0
The Baptistery of San Giovanni and the Formation of Florence as a New Jerusalem in the Fourteenth Century	0
Drawing Analogies in Late Medieval Europe: Agency, Diversity, Individuality, and Playfulness	0
Dismembering the Body Politic: Medical Metaphor in the Writings of Erasmus	0
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“Intimate Scripts” in the Chanson de Jérusalem: Another Approach to Crusader Motivation	0
Early Global Insularities: Archipelagos and Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Texts	0
Crossing Time with Philippe de Novare: Deconstructing the Life Cycle in the .iiij. tenz d’aage d’ome	0
Allegory, Tragedy, and the Ambivalence of Stradanus’s Vespucci	0
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Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair: An Introduction	0
Beard as Veil: Hair and the Past in Latin Ecclesiastical Commentary	0
Liturgy and Ritual Space in Latin Jerusalem	0
The Papacy and the Financing of the Spanish Reconquest in the Thirteenth Century	0
Between Navigation and Shipwreck: Leon Battista Alberti on the Sea of Existence	0
Colonial Spanish America through Arab Christian Eyes: Al-Mawsuli’s Travels, 1668–83	0
Icon to Image: René of Anjou, Cultural Interaction, and Non-European Aesthetics	0
Mary’s Miraculous Islands: Fear of Flooding and the Island as a Haven of Divine Benevolence in Sixteenth-Century Poetry Contests in Normandy	0
Printing Medieval Catalan Historiography and the Politics of Dynastic Exemplarity in Habsburg Spain	0
Long Hair, Oxcarts, and Sea Beasts: Reconsidering Merovingian Sacral Kingship	0
Island Cetology	0
War-Craft: Surprise Attacks and Military Ethics in the Old English Orosius	0
Narrative Frames in the Dialogues of Religious Controversy: The Case of Gilbert Crispin’s and Peter of Cornwall’s Disputes	0
Elements of Muslim Style: Islamic Etiquette on How to Groom a Distinguished Beard	0
Divided by a Common Auditory Landscape: The Local Resonance of Sound and Rebellion in Fourteenth-Century St. Albans	0
The Spaces and Morals of Male Body Waxing in Clement of Alexandria and His Contemporaries	0
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Implementing the Guidonian Revolution: John of Affligem and the Cause of Reform 1030–1100	0
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De Solistitionis insula magna: There and Back Again to a Paradise Island; Approach to the Supernatural, Space, and Belief in Medieval Galicia (11th–12th Centuries)	0
Princesses in Other Castles: Dorothy of Bulgaria and Anna of Poland as Hostages and Agents of Cultural Transfer at the Hungarian-Angevin Court	0
Sailing across the Wall: Ship Graffiti on Cretan Church Wall Paintings	0
The Heraldic Badge as a Rhetorical Tool in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Falcon and the Fetterlock	0
Recovering (Hi)stories: A Response	0
Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Public Image Creation: Philip Melanchthon’s Inaugural Oration (1518)	0
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Gog, Magog, and Alexander’s Wall: Racializing Discourses in the Ethiopic Alexander Romance	0
Godly Grooming: Pubic Hair, Religious Community, and the Construction of Tradition	0
Transinsular Metapoetics: Island Forms in Raleigh and Bacon	0
Transmuted: Reconciling the Medieval Scandinavian Marking of the Piraeus Lion	0
Legal Rituals and the Church: Evolving Rituals in Swedish Provincial Laws, 1200–1350	0
Bishop John Alcock’s Profession-Day Sermon for Nuns	0
Foreign Soil: The Ethnography of Landscape and Imperial Imagination in the Topographia Hibernica	0

The Mestizo Identity of The Spaniards: The Memory of Ethnic Intermixture in Early Modern Spain	0
Scoticitas: Reframing “Scotus” in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	0
Stone Liquidities: On Gems, Bodies, and Value in Early Modern Shipwreck	0
Jerusalem on the Stage of World History: The Jaffa Treaty (1229) and the Historians	0
Platonic Hair: The Symbolism of Beard and Baldness in Emperor Julian’s Misopogon and Synesius’s Praise of Baldness	0
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Social Network Analysis and Medieval Literature: The Case Study of Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors	0
Poet-Bishop and Harlot Saint: Marbod of Rennes’s Life of Thais in Context	0
Male Hair and Medical Discourse in Clement of Alexandria	0
“A thousand miles of troubled sea we sailed”: The Island as a Moral Guide in Daniello Bartoli’s Geography (1664)	0
“You disparage your teacher”: A Medieval Controversy about the Authorship of the Tabulae Waradienses	0
Infant Burials and Coastal Communities in Italy and the Mediterranean between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	0
Political Rituals and Consolidation of Power in Cilician Armenia: The Evidence of the Coronation Ordo and Its Eurasian Entanglements	0
The Growth and Erasure of the Papal Beard	0
Utilitas and Curiositas: The Origins, Intentions, and Receptions of Middle English Artisanal Recipes	0
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The Earliest Reference to a Vandal King Crocus	0
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On Early Modern Ships: Images, Metaphors, Bodies	0
Shaving Faces in Religious Communities: Theory, Practice, and Visual Dynamics	0
Cassinese Horizons: Peter the Deacon, Cowdrey’s “Golden Age,” and Benedictine Tradition	0
The Colonization of Medieval Dance	0
The Appearance of Ritual: Old French as an Outline Language of the Latin Texts of the Winchester Psalter	0
The Women of the Gate: Ecclesiastical Neighborhood Development in Late Medieval Genoa	0
From Episcopal Dubbing to Sacrament of Confirmation (Twelfth– Fourteenth Centuries)	0
Clerics’ Words, God’s Voice? Women’s Visions and the Authority of the Church in Fifteenth-Century Germany	0
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Sexual Sin and the Walking Dead in the Chronicle of Lanercost	0
From the Merry to the Macabre: Song and Dance in the Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter, 1100–1450	0
Beyond the Narrative: A Study of Medieval German Jewish Martyrs’ Lists	0
The First Draft of a Saladin Legend: Saladin’s Reputation in the Latin West Prior to 1187	0