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Special Issue: Elite Strategies of Adaptation in Late Medieval Scandinavia, edited by Magne Njåstad, Susann Anett Pedersen, and Randi B. Wærdahl
Introduction
The Spiders and the Web: Elite Networks in Fifteenth-Century Sweden
OLOV LUND
Elite Credit in Fifteenth-Century Norway: The Economic and Social Implications of herr Hartvig Krummedike’s Credit Activities
SUSANN ANETT PEDERSEN
Power of the Written and Spoken Word: Networking Noblewomen in the Nordafjelske Norway
RANDI BJØRSHOL WÆRDAHL
The Truce at Edsviken 1371: Nordic Aristocrats’ Loyalty and Identity in the Conflicts in the Late Middle Ages
ERIK OPSAHL
Governing in Core and Periphery: Itinerary and Political Geography of King Gustav Vasa in Sixteenth-Century Sweden
DAG RETSÖ
Revenue, Representation and Resistance: Norwegian Elites and the North Atlantic
IAN PETER GROHSE
A Late Medieval Shock Doctrine: The Reaction of Icelandic Elites to Decline in Income in the Late Middle Ages
ARNÍ DANÍEL JULIUSSON
Trading Elites on the Northern Stockfish Coast
SIGRUN HØGETVEIT BERG
Non-Agrarian Resources and Local Elites: The Case of Jemtland
MAGNE NJÅSTAD
Special issue: Language Fusion and Contact in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish-Speaking Worlds, edited by Veronica Menaldi and Yasmine Beale-Rivaya
Introduction
VERONICA MENALDI and YASMINE BEALE-RIVAYA
The Language of Preaching in the Catalan-Speaking Lands: Language Fusion and the ‘Theory of the Primitive Castilian’
VICENTE LLEDÓ-GUILLEM
Heretical Multilingualisms: Linguistic Diversity, Translation, and Heterodoxy in the Early Spanish Philippines
MARLON JAMES SALES
Romancing the Recipe: Culinary Hebrew-Aljamiado and Linguistic Contact in the Sefer ‘ahavat nashim
SARA GARDNER
‘Oyó una voz’: Multilingual Verses and Polemical Prophethood in La degüella de Ibrahim
ANDREA PAUW
Approximating Intelligibility: Racialized Language in Early Modern Spain
ELIZABETH SPRAGINS
Contradictory Conversion: The Peculiarities of the Aljamiado Account of Kaʿab al-Aḥbar’s Conversion to Islam
ROBERT HULTGREN
Multi-Religious Protection and Familial Bonds: Hebrew Use in Arabic-Aljamiado Morisco Magic Spells
VERONICA MENALDI
Ælfflæd of Whitby’s Letter to Adela of Pfalzel
Peter DARBY
Monastic Education and Biblical Violence: Dinah and Tamar in Cistercian Literature
Tristan SHARP
The Tower of London Elephant, Westminster Abbey, and Matthew Paris
Richard CASSIDY
The Alliterative Conflict of Wit and Will: Toward a Reappraisal
Eric WEISKOTT
On Seeking Texts: Some Unnoticed Middle English in Oxford Libraries
Ralph HANNA
‘The Moderhede of Kynd Love’: Conception, Labour, and Delivery in the Theology of Julian of Norwich
Vincent GILLESPIE
The Horoscope as Primary Source Evidence for Understanding Local Calendar Practice in Late Fifteenth-Century England: Revisiting Richard Fitjzames’s Stained-Glass Window Horoscope of Merton College, Oxford
Darrelyn GUNZBURG
Special issue: Contours of Spiritual Formation from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century
Introduction: General Overview on the Formation of Beliefs in the Late Middle Ages
LEANDRO ALVES TEODORO and PABLO MARTÍN PRIETO
Part One
Spiritual Practices in the Middle Ages: The Limitations of ‘Popular Religion’
JEAN-CLAUDE SCHMITT
Conditions for the Emergence of Devotional Writings in Vernacular Language
LEANDRO ALVES TEODORO
The Sociology of Sin in Penitential Castilian Literature in the Late Middle Ages: A Focus on the Different Approaches and Conditions
PABLO MARTÍN PRIETO
Part Two
Preaching and Manifested Grace in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Castille
LEANDRO ALVES TEODORO
Contrition Vocabulary in Fifteenth-Century Castile
LEANDRO ALVES TEODORO
The Divine Origin of Kingship in Medieval Royal Charters of León and Castile: Propaganda in Diplomatic Preambles
PABLO MARTÍN PRIETO
The Latin Translation of Richard Rolle’s Form of Living in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 140/80: Edition and Study
ANDREW KRAEBEL, WITH REBECCA KROGER AND KENNICE LEISK
The Pelican as Angry Bird in the Ancrene Wisse and in Medieval Devotional Culture
MARY DZON
Time Unfolded: A Late Medieval Concertina Calendar in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Libr. Pict. A 92)
SARAH GRIFFIN
Special Issue: Law and Ritual in the Middle Ages, edited by Jenny Benham, Helle Vogt, and Matthew McHaffie
Introduction
JENNY BENHAM, HELLE VOGT, MATTHEW MCHAFFIE
Compurgation and Ritualization in Medieval Norway
OLE-ALBERT RØNNING NORDBY
The Emergence of the Ordeal in Anglo-Saxon England
STEFAN JURASINSKI
Miracle and Mandate: A Case Study of Sanctification at the Intersection of Ritual and Law
KIM ESMARK
Norms and Rituals of Conflict Settlement in Foreign Affairs in the High Middle Ages
HERMANN KAMP
Anger in Court: A Multifaceted Ritual Display
HANS JACOB ORNING
Law, Ritual, and Punishment: The Consequences of Making War Against the King in High Medieval England and Norway
LOUISA TAYLOR
Access to Courtrooms in the Late Medieval Town Halls of the Low Countries
NATHAN VAN KLEIJ
The Danish Assemblies – An Arena for Ritualised Legal Action
PER ANDERSEN AND HELLE VOGT
Mercy and ‘Law’s Violence’: Pardoning Fines in Western France, c.1030–c.1170
MATTHEW MCHAFFIE
The Thirteenth-Century Life of Saint Martial of Limoges: A Translation of Wauchier de Denain’s Vie seint Marcel de Lymoges
MOLLY LYNDE-RECCHIA
Proto-surgery, Resurrection, and Race: Interpreting ‘The Ethiopian’s leg transplant’ Miracle
ALASTAIR MINNIS
Otherworldly Interventions and Unstable Identities: An Intersectional Reading of Marie de France’s Lanval
JENNIFER FARRELL
Caput et domina: Abbesses and Women’s Literary Leadership at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539
JULIA KING
The Blooming of the Lancastrian Red Rose: The Red Rose as a Nascent Paraheraldic Device in Pembroke College MS 243
KIM LIFTON
The Handwriting of Diplomacy — GIULIA BIAGIONI
‘Holy macharoni?’ Miracles Encouraging Participation in the Bianchi Devotions of 1399 — ALEXANDRA R. A. LEE
Unmanageable Women: Enclosure and Transgression in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des dames — GAYLE FALLON
Home And Away: The Networks Of Cistercian Abbots Of The Whitland Family, Wales, c. 1480 To c. 1520 — JANET BURTON
Reviews
Bishops And The Politics Of Patronage In Merovingian Gaul, by Gregory I. Halfond — CATHERINE-ROSE HAILSTONE
Felony And The Guilty Mind In Medieval England, by Elizabeth Papp Kamali — TOM LAMBERT
Caliphs And Merchants: Cities And Economies Of Power In The Near East (700–950), by Fanny Bessard — HARRY MUNT
Monarchs And Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development Of Viking Activity Across The Frankish Realm (C. 750–940), by Christian Cooijmans — CAITLIN ELLIS
On Hospitals: Welfare Law, And Christianity In Western Europe, 400–1320, by Sethina Watson — MARTIAL STAUB
Preachers, Partisans, And Rebellious Religion: Vernacular Writing And The Hussite Movement, by Marcela K. Perett — STEPHEN LAHEY
Punishment and Medieval Education Ben Parsons — SARAH B. LYNCH
A Middle English Version of the Circa Instans, Edited from Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13, Ed. Edurne Garrido-Anes — KATIE L. WALTER
A Christian Mannes Bileeve edited from Washington, Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections, MS 4 Ed. Nicole D. Smith AND The Fifteen Oes and Other Prayers edited from the Text Published by William Caxton (1491), Ed. Alexandra Barratt and Susan Powell — NIAMH PATTWELL
Special Issue: Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Literary and Historical Approaches, edited by Rhiannon Purdie and Roger A. Mason
Introduction — RHIANNON PURDIE and ROGER A. MASON
The Historiography of Disruption: The Chronicon de Lanercost and the Pressures of the Marches — MARK P. BRUCE
The Carping of Wyntoun’s Anonymous Contributor: Episodic Recovery in 1330s Scotland — DAVID J. PARKINSON
Ennobling Centralization: Lancelot of the Laik and the Romance of Subjection — RANDY P. SCHIFF
Serving Venus: Attitudes to Authority in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of Honoure — NICOLA ROYAN
Lyndsay’s Meldrum, Hary’s Wallace, and the Craft of History — RHIANNON PURDIE
Dame Scotia and the Commonweal: Vernacular Humanism in The Complaynt of Scotland (1550) — ROGER A. MASON
Review
Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland, by Katherine H. Terrell — LAURIE ATKINSON