Early Medieval Europe May 2012, Volume 20, Issue 2

Rogatrix atque donatrix: the silver cover of the Berta Evangeliary (Vatican, S. Maria in Via Lata, MS. I 45) and the patronage of art by women in early medieval Rome. Maria Laura Marchiori
Coercion, vengeance, feud and accommodation: homicide in medieval Iceland. By Hugh Firth
The bishop and the monk: Desiderius of Vienne and the Columbanian movement. By Yaniv Fox
Kinship and religion in the early Middle Ages. By David d’Avray

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2012 Vol. 7:

White-Christ. A. V. Busygin
Putting Women in their Place? Gender, Landscape, and the Construction of Landnámabók. Chris Callow
Denemearc, Tanmaurk Ala, and Confinia Nordmannorum: the Annales Regni Francorum and the Origins of Denmark. Paul Gazzoli
The Many Conversions of Hallfreðr Vandræðaskáld. Erin Michelle Goeres
Loki, the Vätte, and the Ash Lad: A Study Combining Old Scandinavian and Late Material. Eldar Heide
Magic and Discourses of Magic in the Old Norse Sagas of the Apostles. Nicolas Meylan
Money for Freedom: Ransom Paying to Vikings in Western Iberia. Helio Pires
Eddic Poetry for a New Era: Tradition and Innovation in Sólarljóð and Hugsvinnsmál. Brittany Schorn
The Role of Gender in Some Viking-Age Innovations in Personal Naming. Philip A. Shaw

Thomas F. Madden: The Venetian Version of the Fourth Crusade: Memory and the Conquest of Constantinople in Medieval Venice, pp 311 – 344
Warren C. Brown: On the Gesta municipalia and the Public Validation of Documents in Frankish Europe, pp 345 – 375
José Luis Senra: Rebellion, Reconciliation, and a Romanesque Church in León-Castile (c.1109–1120), pp 376 – 412
Robert Mills: Seeing Sodomy in the Bibles moralisées, pp 413 – 468
Timothy L. Stinson: Illumination and Interpretation: The Depiction and Reception of Faus Semblant in Roman de la Rose Manuscripts, pp 469 – 498
Barbara F. Weissberger: Gendering Spain’s Humanism: The Case of Juan de Lucena’s Epístola exhortatoria a las letras, pp 499 – 519

Fourth MHJ Annual Lecture : Jean-Claude Schmitt: A History of Rhythms during the Middle Ages – read review here
Carla Meyer: New Methods and Old Records: Awareness and Perceptions of the Near East in Hans Tucher’s Account of his Journey to the Holy Land and Egypt
Saygn Salgrl: Orthodoxy, Dissent and Politics in Medieval France and Anatolia: A Comparative Perspective
Meena Bhargava: Narcotics and Drugs: Pleasure, Intoxication or Simply Therapeutic—North India, Sixteenth— Seventeenth Centuries
Christopher Chekuri: ‘Fathers’ and ‘Sons’: Inscribing Self and Empire at Vijayanagara, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Donald Leech: ‘By the Evidence of This City’: Enclosing Land and Memory in Fifteenth-century Coventry

John Sabapathy: A Medieval Officer and a Modern Mentality? Podestà and the Quality of Accountability
Jonathan Jarrett: Caliph, King, or Grandfather: Strategies of Legitimization on the Spanish March in the Reign of Lothar III
Piotr Górecki: The Early Piasts Imagined: New Work in the Political History of Early Medieval Poland
Carrie Griffin: ‘Lynes of my Lore’: Judas and the Mark of Mars In the York Play of The Conspiracy