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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Exiled Pirate: Double Agents, Revenge, and Finding Home in Cervantine Fiction	1
Between the Arabic Language and the Frontiers of Knowledge: Al-Ḥarīrī’s Unknown Island in the “Maqāma of Oman”	1
Stone Liquidities: On Gems, Bodies, and Value in Early Modern Shipwreck	1
“Aliqua nostra navigia transeuntia per insulas”: Venetian Networks of Islands	1
Violent Saint-Making: Ritual Resonances of Violence in the Vida of Douceline of Digne	1
Gog, Magog, and Alexander’s Wall: Racializing Discourses in the Ethiopic Alexander Romance	0
The Romantic Death of Richard the Lionheart	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
Drawing Analogies in Late Medieval Europe: Agency, Diversity, Individuality, and Playfulness	0
Transinsular Metapoetics: Island Forms in Raleigh and Bacon	0
Remember, Remember the Sixth of November: British Messianism and the Mourning for Henry, Prince of Wales	0
Island Cetology	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
Celestial Phenomena of 1097/98 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade	0
Conceptualizing War in Balthasar Russow’s Chronica der Prouintz Lyfflandt	0
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Painting and Shipbuilding: Carpaccio’s Art of Transformation	0
Implementing the Guidonian Revolution: John of Affligem and the Cause of Reform 1030–1100	0
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Prayers by the Crusader Knights: Ritual Observation and Literary Adaptations in the Narratives of the First Crusade	0
Colonial Spanish America through Arab Christian Eyes: Al-Mawsuli’s Travels, 1668–83	0
“May she endure as worthy and chosen”: Queenship and Gender in the Medieval English Coronation Orders	0
Ex oriente, rex: Imperial Saviors in the Wake of Islam	0
Jerusalem on the Stage of World History: The Jaffa Treaty (1229) and the Historians	0

Infant Burials and Coastal Communities in Italy and the Mediterranean between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	0
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Utilitas and Curiositas: The Origins, Intentions, and Receptions of Middle English Artisanal Recipes	0
The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages	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
Between Navigation and Shipwreck: Leon Battista Alberti on the Sea of Existence	0
How Early before It Is Too Late? “Medieval” Periodization, Epistemic Change, and the Institution	0
Speech Representation in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne as a Pedagogical Tool	0
From Matter to Spirit: The Front Cover of the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram	0
From the Merry to the Macabre: Song and Dance in the Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter, 1100–1450	0
The Appearance of Ritual: Old French as an Outline Language of the Latin Texts of the Winchester Psalter	0
Cassinese Horizons: Peter the Deacon, Cowdrey’s “Golden Age,” and Benedictine Tradition	0
From Episcopal Dubbing to Sacrament of Confirmation (Twelfth– Fourteenth Centuries)	0
Ganelon’s Muslim Refashioning in the Paris Chanson de Roland	0
Transmuted: Reconciling the Medieval Scandinavian Marking of the Piraeus Lion	0
“Bad speech corrupts good morals”: The Context and Subtext of Gunzo of Novara’s Letter to the Monks of Reichenau	0
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Foreign Soil: The Ethnography of Landscape and Imperial Imagination in the Topographia Hibernica	0
Beyond the Narrative: A Study of Medieval German Jewish Martyrs’ Lists	0
Bishop John Alcock’s Profession-Day Sermon for Nuns	0
Burgundian Crusade Propaganda in a Middle English Manuscript	0
Encountering the Medieval Altar: A Set of Seventeen Chapel Inventories from Burgos Cathedral (1369)	0
The Heraldic Badge as a Rhetorical Tool in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Falcon and the Fetterlock	0
Scoticitas: Reframing “Scotus” in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	0
Fashioning Abbot Geoffrey: Geoffrey of Gorron’s Copes, The Life of Christina of Markyate, and the St. Alban’s Psalter	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
Painful Pageantry: The Local Circumstances of Royal Visitations in Late Medieval Iberia	0
The Colonization of Medieval Dance	0
“What me is”: Insomnia Cures, Saintly Miracles, and Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess as Illness Narrative	0
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Rituals in the Middle Ages: At the Crossroads of Lay Culture and Official Doctrine in Medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean	0
How to Survive in the Renaissance Tatar Crimea: Ławryn Piaseczyński’s Ambassador’s Duties in the Context of His Unique Diplomatic Experiences	0
On Early Modern Ships: Images, Metaphors, Bodies	0
“A thousand miles of troubled sea we sailed”: The Island as a Moral Guide in Daniello Bartoli’s Geography (1664)	0
Sailing across the Wall: Ship Graffiti on Cretan Church Wall Paintings	0
No Island Is an Island: A Response	0
Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Public Image Creation: Philip Melanchthon’s Inaugural Oration (1518)	0
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Theorizing Insular Exceptionalism in the Early Medieval North Atlantic	0
Recovering (Hi)stories: A Response	0
“To try the difference”: Encountering a Different Self in Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines	0
Illuminating Rituals for the Dead in the Mortuary Roll of Prioress Lucy of Castle Hedingham	0
Conjuring Ethiopia: Blackness as Dignity in Juan Latino’s Poetry	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
“Intimate Scripts” in the Chanson de Jérusalem: Another Approach to Crusader Motivation	0
The First Draft of a Saladin Legend: Saladin’s Reputation in the Latin West Prior to 1187	0
Liturgy and Ritual Space in Latin Jerusalem	0
Allegory, Tragedy, and the Ambivalence of Stradanus’s Vespucci	0

Insular Imaginaries: A Response	0
Enigmatic Phrases above Two Ptolemaic World Maps from 1482	0
Mucking About with Islands: A Response	0
“Good sauore and deuocyon”: Attention in Devotional Ritual	0
St. Vincent Is Here: Universally Local Cults in Early Medieval Iberia	0
Compositio: Horizons of Truth in the Decameron, the Notarial Register, and Civic Peace Pacts	0
The Bison Trail through the Hercynian Forest: Names, Images, and Identities in Ptolemy’s Tabula Europae IV and Münster’s Cosmographia	0
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The Baptistery of San Giovanni and the Formation of Florence as a New Jerusalem in the Fourteenth Century	0
Bazene, Cheverel, and Lasche: Middle English Recipes for Red Dyed Skins, Their European Parallels, and Alexandrian Precursors	0
The Papacy and the Financing of the Spanish Reconquest in the Thirteenth Century	0
“You disparage your teacher”: A Medieval Controversy about the Authorship of the Tabulae Waradienses	0
Manna and the Mystery of Non-Death in the Late Medieval Liturgy of St. John the Evangelist: From Ephesus to ’S-Hertogenbosch	0
Ships at Sea: Etchings for the 1608 Argonautica	0
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Conspersio: An Isidorean Intervention in the Old English Hierdeboc	0
The Women of the Gate: Ecclesiastical Neighborhood Development in Late Medieval Genoa	0
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The Foolish Confounding the Wise: The Defense of Female Prophecy during and after the Council of Basel	0
Clerics’ Words, God’s Voice? Women’s Visions and the Authority of the Church in Fifteenth-Century Germany	0