OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Medieval History 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The vitality of the dead in medieval cultures	4
The dead in dreams: medieval Icelandic conceptions of the unquiet dead	3
Landscapes of the dead in the late medieval imagination	3
Governing through influence at the thirteenth-century papal court	2
In dialogue: responses to papal communication	2
Writing history in Portugal before 1200	2
Antiquarian knights in Mediterranean island landscapes: the Hospitaller Order of St John and crusading among the ruins of classical antiquity, from medieval Rhodes to early modern Malta	2
Miracles and Misadventures: Childhood and Public Health in the Late Medieval Low Countries	1
The Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Revisited	1
The crowd’s two faces: keeping the peace and fearing the stranger in late medieval Flanders	1
Out of sight, out of mind? The wills of monastic and mendicant bishops in Britain and Ireland, 1350–1535	1
Introduction: landscapes of conflict and encounter in the crusading world	1
Ethnographic writing in the kingdom of Jerusalem: in search of a neglected intellectual tradition	1
Medieval Liturgy and the Making of Poland: A Study in Early Medieval Political Identification (c. 960s—c. 1030s)	1
Christian Community and the Barbarians in the Life of Severinus of Eugippius	1
Medical knowledge in thirteenth-century preaching: the sermons of Luca da Bitonto	1
A simple food with many meanings: bread in late medieval England	1
Law and spiritual sanctions: asserting the stability of pro anima donation charters in late tenth- and eleventh-century central Italy	1
Peace in the desert, peace in the realm: the Carthusian monastery of Durbon, protection and the safeguard of exempt monasteries in Angevin Provence	1
Multiple lordship in twelfth-century England: a quantitative study	1
From Christmas Candlesticks to Deathbeds: The Material Culture of the Male ‘Middling Sort’ in Late Medieval English Wills	1
Heretical refugees and persecution of German Waldensians, 1393–1400	1
Between violent outbreaks and legal disputes: the contested cityscape of Frankish Jerusalem through the prism of institutional and socio-economic conflicts	1
Reginal Income and Expenditure: The Household Accounts of Maria of Castile and Aragon, Queen of Portugal, in 1501–1508	1
Correction	1

Jews, Lordship, and the Experience of Power in Early Eleventh Century France	1
The emergence of written Slavonic (c.860–c.880): where and why?	0
Direct speech in Heliand and Otfrid von Weissenburg's Evangelienbuch: a shared vernacular tradition?	0
Penance, Murder, and the Sanctity of Close Kinship in Early Medieval England and Francia	0
‘Agite, agite et uenite!’ Corrupted breath, corrupted speech and encounters with the restless dead in Geoffrey of Burton’s Vita sancte Moduenne virginis	0
Richer of Senones and the peculiar story of Sibylla of Marsal: pseudo-sanctity, mendicants and the end of the world in the Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae	0
Facing the Pandemic in the Savoyard Heartlands: Local Communities and the Comital Administration, 1348–1356	0
Holy war and Church reform: the case of Gerhoch of Reichersberg (1092/3–1169)	0
Sorrow, masculinity and papal authority in the writing of Pope Innocent III (1198–1216) and his curia	0
The price of the throne. Public finances in Portugal and Castile and the War of the Castilian Succession (1475–9)	0
History in liturgy: negotiating merit in Ely’s virgin mothers	0
Margery Kempe and the Late-Medieval Image Debates in England: The Curious Case of the Non-Animating Crucifix	0
Pursuing the Percys: the original owners of the Percy Psalter-Hours	0
The empress and the humanist: profit and politics in the correspondence of Anne of Świdnica and Petrarch	0
The earliest English prose	0
St Stephen's, Vienna, and the crises of 1408: practice theory and the socio-politics of the medieval building site	0
Power, celebration and circuits of legitimation: the local use of papal letters in late twelfth-century Denmark	0
Wild lands and the southern sun: claims to north Africa during the thirteenth-century crusades	0
Donations, discipline and commemoration. Creating group identity in the transport workers guilds of mid fifteenth-century Riga	0
Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II	0
Lex Salica between Latin and vernacular	0
Mazers and the drinking culture of late medieval England	0
Revisiting the compilation of Matthew Paris’s Chronica majora: new textual and manuscript evidence	0
Difficult gifts: gifts to and from the popes in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England	0
The Heliand in tenth-century England: translation, transmission and turbulence	0
‘Our Dearest Lord and Father Received Him From the Baptismal Font’: The Life and Career of Philippe le Convers	0
Of Saxons and spectres	0
Guild formation and the artisanal labour market: the example of Castelló d’Empúries, 1260–1310	0
Wars of our fathers: Hauteville kin networks and the making of Norman Antioch	0
Queenship, Wealth and Material Culture in Late Medieval Iberia: Sibila de Fortià’s Evolution from Royal Mistress to Dowager Queen of the Crown of Aragon (1375–1387)	0
John of Garland on the Jews	0
The judgement of God and the fate of a dog: the ninth-century ordeal debate and the anonymous Song of Count Timo	0
Reconsidering the shift from Latin to Romance, from the perspective of the Council of Tours (813)	0
Of relics and kings: Cyprus in Franciscan apocrypha of the Trecento	0
Urban protest in thirteenth-century north-western Europe: a comparative approach	0
Peasants and food security in England and Wales c. 1300	0
Homage, Overlordship and the Consequences of Peace: The Treaties of Norham (1209, 1212), Anglo-Scottish Relations and the ‘Scottish Clause’ in Magna Carta Revisited	0
Noble violence and civic justice: rural lords under trial in the Italian city communes 1276–1322	0
To receive ‘the best form and example of living’: ascetic instruction in the Life of John of Gorze	0
The smallest matters: vanishing water, missing birds, revived animals, recovered coins and other trifling miracles in the Thomas Becket collections	0
Resonet Vox Fidelis: Scribal Colophons and Ecclesiastical Reform in Medieval Iberia	0
‘Theologians know best’: Paris-trained crusade preachers as mediators between papal, popular and learned crusading pieties	0
The Investiture Contest in the margins: popes and peace in a manuscript from Augsburg cathedral	0
Status, gender and emotions: family conflicts at the Parlement de Toulouse	0
Gregory of Tours And the Merovingian letter	0
Trade, taste and ecology: honey in late medieval Europe	0
A monastic angelology in stone: the sculpted angels at Conques	0
Mountains of doom and mountains of salvation: topographies of conflict in the early medieval Latin chronicles of Iberia	0
Why Did Medieval Monks Sew?	0
A Local Translation in a Global World: Odoric of Pordenone, William of Solagna, and a Giant Tortoise in Fourteenth-Century Padua	0

Rumour and reputation management in fourteenth-century England: Isabella of France in text and image	0
The language of history-writing in the ninth century: an entangled approach	0
Picti: from Roman name to internal identity	0
The earliest English culinary recipes: dietary advice in Old English medical texts	0
Byland Revisited, or, Spectres of Inheritance	0
Rabbenu Tam and Count Henry the Liberal: New Sources	0
Magistrae of the Beguines of Valenciennes and Their Social Networks	0
Reconsidering the medieval experience at the shrine in high medieval England	0
Talking with ghosts: Rancière, Derrida and the archive	0
The Armaments of the Calais Arsenal, 1347–1485	0
Poor commons and kings’ propines: food and status in later medieval Aberdeen	0
A medieval effort toward unity: Latins, Greeks, Russians and the Mongol Khan	0
The necromancer and the abbot: summoning the dead in Cistercian exempla	0
Inventing and ethnicising Slavonic in the long ninth century	0
Credit practices and networks in the medieval Italian city: the memoriale of Dr Iacopo di Coluccino of Lucca	0
The royal forests of the Árpáds in the eleventh and twelfth centuries	0
Carolingian After-Images: Hariulf’s History of St Riquier and Its Context	0
Florence, Byzantium and the Florentine Colony in Constantinople: An Impossible Love?	0
From author to authority: Anselm’s public reputation and the Council of Bari (1098)	0
Self-presentation and geographical origin at the fifteenth-century University of Paris: an analysis of manuscript decoration	0
In (political) love. Building social order and consensus through emotional politics in fifteenth-century urban Castile: the case of the city of Cuenca	0
Elite Attitudes to the ‘Public Sphere’ in Fifteenth-Century Castile	0
The Tournament at Saint-Inglevert (1390): Chivalry, Diplomacy and Pas d’armes	0
Food security and insecurity in medieval Irish towns	0
The ‘Lamb of God’ in the early Middle Ages: a zooarchaeological perspective	0
Barns, granaries and security: crop storage, processing and investment in medieval England	0
Brewing difference: malting, gender and urbanity in medieval England. An examination of drying and malting kilns, c .1150–1500	0
Correction	0
The Herring Cask and its Sign System as Witnesses to a Growing Fishing Industry in Fifteenth-century Flanders	0
Papal crusade propaganda and attacks against Jews in France in the 1230s: a breakdown of communication?	0
Converse with the dead as a technology of the self: agreements to return from the other-world in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations	0
The worm and the corpse: Carolingian visions of Gehenna’s undead cemetery	0
‘Blood and water flowed to the ground’: sacred topography, biblical landscapes and conceptions of space in the Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum	0
The clergy between town and country in late Merovingian hagiography	0
Bodies of earth and air: corporeality and spirituality in pre-modern British narratives of the undead	0
Miraculous rivers and monstrous cities: landscapes and gender performance in thirteenth-century crusading culture	0
Patterns of communication during the 1241 Mongol invasion of Europe: insights from the Ottobeuren letter collection	0
Race, Skin Colour, Enslavement and Sexuality in the Late Medieval Mediterranean	0
Papal communications and historical writing in Angevin England	0
Theorising the religious borders of the Latin East: some reflections on the inter-Christian landscape of Frankish northern Syria	0
From the Everyday to the Extraordinary: Economic Evidence for Queenship in the Chamber Books	0
The Iberian ambition of a duke of Burgundy: Philip the Handsome and the royal treasury in the Crown of Castile (1502–6)	0
The papal monopoly of the canonisation and translation of saints on the peripheries of Latin Christendom: the case of Bohemia before c.1150	0
The first issue of annuities by the Diputación of the kingdom of Aragon (1376–1436): raising capital and sovereign debt in the Middle Ages	0
Meanings of food in medieval Britain and Ireland: themes	0
‘A competent mess’: food, consumption and retirement at religious houses in England and Wales, c.1502–38	0
A healthy Christian city: Christianising health care in late fourteenth-century Seville	0
‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship	0
A vernacular genre? Latin and the early English laws	0
Italian and French responses to Urban V’s visual communications, c.1368–1420	0
‘A land of horror and vast wilderness’: landscapes of crusade and Jerusalem pilgrimage in Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum	0
The intellectual background of the earliest Irish grammar	0
Gifts and Rewards: Exploring the Expenditure of Late Medieval English Queens	0
Behind the scenes: Urban secretaries as managers of legal and diplomatic conflicts in the Baltic region, c.1470–1540	0
The Translatio imperii and the Spatial Construction of History in the Twelfth Century	0
Representing the mysteries of the vine: drinking wine with Gregory of Tours	0
‘For help and comfort and to resist the enemy of God’: Greek refugees in the Burgundian Low Countries	0
Introduction: ‘The Economic Power of European Queens: Sources, Resources and Expenditure'	0
The Frisian exception. Why are there hardly any traces of written Frisian from the eighth and ninth centuries?	0
Vernacular languages in the long ninth century: towards a connected history	0
How to make a warhorse: violence and behavioural control in late medieval hippiatric treatises	0
Celebrating St Melor at Amesbury Priory	0