OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaving Hair and the Maintenance of Confessional Boundaries in Jewish Sources from the Early Islamic Period	2
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”	1
Elements of Muslim Style: Islamic Etiquette on How to Groom a Distinguished Beard	0
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“To try the difference”: Encountering a Different Self in Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines	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
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Bishop John Alcock’s Profession-Day Sermon for Nuns	0
Crossing Time with Philippe de Novare: Deconstructing the Life Cycle in the .iiij. tenz d’aage d’ome	0
The Growth and Erasure of the Papal Beard	0
The Ashes of the Phoenix: Messianic Hope in British Eschatology after the Death of Henry Stuart	0
Liturgy and Ritual Space in Latin Jerusalem	0
The “Good Man” in the Fragments of Papinian (2nd c.–212 ce)	0
“Suspended in Admiration”: Reconsidering the Discourse on Magnificent Architecture in Late Medieval Italy	0
Rituals in the Middle Ages: At the Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean	0
The Colonization of Medieval Dance	0
Tonsure and Punitive Shaving in Early Medieval Byzantium	0
How Early before It Is Too Late? “Medieval” Periodization, Epistemic Change, and the Institution	0
Printing Medieval Catalan Historiography and the Politics of Dynastic Exemplarity in Habsburg Spain	0
Island Cetology	0
No Island Is an Island: A Response	0
The Long Coexistence of Parchment and Paper in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Manuscript Culture	0

Shorn Head and Episcopal Power: The Beginnings of Clerical Tonsure	0
From Matter to Spirit: The Front Cover of the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram	0
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Implementing the Guidonian Revolution: John of Affligem and the Cause of Reform 1030–1100	0
Recovering (Hi)stories: A Response	0
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
Male Hair and Medical Discourse in Clement of Alexandria	0
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Making History in the Lobbes Bible Colophon (Tournai, Bibliothèque du Séminaire, Ms 1)	0
Transinsular Metapoetics: Island Forms in Raleigh and Bacon	0
The Simian Man in Mantegna’s Minerva Expelling The Vices and the Promotion of Physiognomy and Comparative Anatomy in the Renaissance	0
The Heraldic Badge as a Rhetorical Tool in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Falcon and the Fetterlock	0
Godly Grooming: Pubic Hair, Religious Community, and the Construction of Tradition	0
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Gog, Magog, and Alexander’s Wall: Racializing Discourses in the Ethiopic Alexander Romance	0
“Intimate Scripts” in the Chanson de Jérusalem: Another Approach to Crusader Motivation	0
Social Network Analysis and Medieval Literature: The Case Study of Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors	0
Conjuring Ethiopia: Blackness as Dignity in Juan Latino’s Poetry	0
“Ce beau jardin du monde”: Italy and Italian Adaptations in Charles Sorel’s Francion	0
Insular Imaginaries: A Response	0
Foreign Soil: The Ethnography of Landscape and Imperial Imagination in the Topographia Hibernica	0
“Aliqua nostra navigia transeuntia per insulas”: Venetian Networks of Islands	0
Beard as Veil: Hair and the Past in Latin Ecclesiastical Commentary	0
Platonic Hair: The Symbolism of Beard and Baldness in Emperor Julian’s Misopogon and Synesius’s Praise of Baldness	0
The Papacy and the Financing of the Spanish Reconquest in the Thirteenth Century	0
In Search of the Practical Meaning of the Terms Boni Homines And Boni Viri In Burgundian Sources (9th–13th Century)	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
Prayers by the Crusader Knights: Ritual Observation and Literary Adaptations in the Narratives of the First Crusade	0
Long Hair, Oxcarts, and Sea Beasts: Reconsidering Merovingian Sacral Kingship	0
Icon to Image: René of Anjou, Cultural Interaction, and Non-European Aesthetics	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
Political Rituals and Consolidation of Power in Cilician Armenia: The Evidence of the Coronation Ordo and Its Eurasian Entanglements	0
Sexual Sin and the Walking Dead in the Chronicle of Lanercost	0
Utilitas and Curiositas: The Origins, Intentions, and Receptions of Middle English Artisanal Recipes	0
Divided by a Common Auditory Landscape: The Local Resonance of Sound and Rebellion in Fourteenth-Century St. Albans	0
Cassinese Horizons: Peter the Deacon, Cowdrey’s “Golden Age,” and Benedictine Tradition	0
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Shaving Faces in Religious Communities: Theory, Practice, and Visual Dynamics	0
Who Resolved Disputes in Medieval Poland?	0
Tracing Proteus: A Possible Identity for “Godefroiz de Leigni,” the Continuator of Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot	0
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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
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Boni Homines: Discussing a Category and a Legal Concept (Portugal, 12th–13th century)	0
Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Public Image Creation: Philip Melanchthon’s Inaugural Oration (1518)	0
From Episcopal Dubbing to Sacrament of Confirmation (Twelfth– Fourteenth Centuries)	0
The Boni Homines in Medieval Society: An Introduction	0
The Women of the Gate: Ecclesiastical Neighborhood Development in Late Medieval Genoa	0
From the Merry to the Macabre: Song and Dance in the Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter, 1100–1450	0

Legal Rituals and the Church: Evolving Rituals in Swedish Provincial Laws, 1200–1350	0
Early Global Insularities: Archipelagos and Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Texts	0
Infant Burials and Coastal Communities in Italy and the Mediterranean between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	0
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Celestial Phenomena of 1097/98 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade	0
Cultivating and Contesting the Spiritual Meaning of Male Hair: An Introduction	0
Writing the City: From Renaissance Cartographic Rhetoric to Machiavelli’s Geocriticism	0
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Dismembering the Body Politic: Medical Metaphor in the Writings of Erasmus	0
Poet-Bishop and Harlot Saint: Marbod of Rennes’s Life of Thais in Context	0
“A thousand miles of troubled sea we sailed”: The Island as a Moral Guide in Daniello Bartoli’s Geography (1664)	0
St. Vincent Is Here: Universally Local Cults in Early Medieval Iberia	0
Memory as Evidence: The Function of Pristav in Disputes over Landed Estates in the Medieval County of Zagreb	0
Theorizing Insular Exceptionalism in the Early Medieval North Atlantic	0
The Mestizo Identity of The Spaniards: The Memory of Ethnic Intermixture in Early Modern Spain	0
“You disparage your teacher”: A Medieval Controversy about the Authorship of the Tabulae Waradienses	0
The Earliest Reference to a Vandal King Crocus	0
From Blind Philosophers to Blind Painters: Lomazzo’s “Composizione In Idea” and Ficino’s Theory of Mind	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
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
Jerusalem on the Stage of World History: The Jaffa Treaty (1229) and the Historians	0
“May she endure as worthy and chosen”: Queenship and Gender in the Medieval English Coronation Orders	0
Conspersio: An Isidorean Intervention in the Old English Hierdeboc	0
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Drawing Analogies in Late Medieval Europe: Agency, Diversity, Individuality, and Playfulness	0
The Spaces and Morals of Male Body Waxing in Clement of Alexandria and His Contemporaries	0
“Good sauore and deuocyon”: Attention in Devotional Ritual	0
The Appearance of Ritual: Old French as an Outline Language of the Latin Texts of the Winchester Psalter	0