Viator, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7 (1976)

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520331938
• eBook ISBN: 9780520331952
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 7 gathers an impressive range of scholarship that spans late antiquity through the Renaissance, reflecting the journal’s distinctive breadth across periods, disciplines, and geographies. The volume opens with Gerhart B. Ladner on Roman attitudes toward barbarians in late antiquity and Franz Staab’s study of Ostrogothic geographers at Theodoric’s court, before turning to Josiah Cox Russell’s work on medieval plague in the British Isles and Barbara Kreutz on transformations in early medieval Mediterranean shipping. Political and cultural studies follow, including Bernard Bachrach on feudal politics between Fulk Nerra and William the Great, John D. Niles on Charlemagne’s image in La Chanson de Roland, and David Pingree on Indian and pseudo-Indian passages in Greco-Latin astrological texts.

Later contributions explore the reintroduction of Aristotle via Alfred of Sareshel (James K. Otte), the emergence of European nobility and the ministeriales (John B. Freed), Flemish administrative structures under Philip of Alsace (Louis M. de Gryse), and Marjorie McIntosh on villeins in the English ancient demesne. Essays by Duane Osheim on rural Tuscany, Scott Hendrix on late medieval ecclesiology, Patrick Ford on the death of Merlin, and James Overfield on scholastic opposition to humanism highlight the volume’s thematic range. The issue closes with William Bouwsma’s essay on changing cultural assumptions in the Renaissance and John Patrick Donnelly on Calvinist Thomism. Collectively, these studies exemplify Viator’s commitment to crossing traditional boundaries of periodization and discipline, making this volume a rich resource for historians, literary scholars, and students of intellectual and cultural history alike.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Table of contents

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• CONTENTS 1
• ON ROMAN ATTITUDES TOWARD BARBARIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY
• OSTROGOTHIC GEOGRAPHERS AT THE COURT OF THEODORIC THE GREAT A STUDY OF SOME SOURCES OF THE ANONYMOUS COSMOGRAPHER OF RAVENNA
• THE EARLIER MEDIEVAL PLAGUE IN THE BRITISH ISLES
• SHIPS, SHIPPING, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGE IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
• A STUDY IN FEUDAL POLITICS: RELATIONS BETWEEN FULK NERRA AND WILLIAM THE GREAT, 995-1030
• THE IDEAL DEPICTION OF CHARLEMAGNE IN WLA CHANSON DE ROLAND»
• THE INDIAN AND PSEUDO-INDIAN PASSAGES IN GREEK AND LATIN ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL TEXTS
• THE ROLE OF ALFRED OF SARESHEL (ALFREDUS ANGLICUS) AND HIS COMMENTARY ON THE METHEORA IN THE REACQUISTTION OF ARISTOTLE
• THE ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN NOBILITY: THE PROBLEM OF THE MINISTERIALS
• SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FLEMISH BAILIFF (BAILLI): THE REIGN OF PHILIP OF ALSACE
• THE PRIVILEGED VILLEINS OF THE ENGLISH ANCIENT DEMESNE
• RURAL POPULATION AND THE TUSCAN ECONOMY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
• IN QUEST OF THE VERA ECCLESIA-, THE CRISES OF LATE MEDIEVAL ECCLESIOLOGY
• THE DEATH OF MERLIN IN THE CHRONICLE OF ELIS GRUFFYDD
• SCHOLASTIC OPPOSITION TO HUMANISM IN PRE-REFORMATION GERMANY
• CHANGING ASSUMPTIONS IN LATER RENAISSANCE CULTURE
• CALVINIST THOMISM
• VIATOR Style Sheet