Notes on Contributors
Stuart Airlie
is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow. He has published widely on the early Middle Ages and in particular the Carolingian period.
Ted Andersson
taught at Harvard, Stanford, and Indiana University for more than forty years and it is now emeritus at the latter two institutions. He focused on the study of early Germanic literatures with a growing interest in Old Icelandic texts, especially the sagas. In 2017 a book appeared on the sagas about Norwegian kings, and he is currently at work on the sagas about early Icelandic bishops ca. 1200. In 1981–82 he served as President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and in 1998–99 as President of the Medieval Academy of America.
Nora Bartlett
was for many years Honorary Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. The inaugural Nora Bartlett Lecture of the Scottish Branch of the Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom took place in 2017.
Robert Bartlett
is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History; England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075–1225; and Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation. He has presented three television series for the
Carol J. Clover
is Professor of the Class of 1936 Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught film in the Rhetoric Department and Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in the Department of Scandinavian. Her publications in the latter field have chiefly to do with the sagas—their narrative form and its origins, their gender system and its effects, and, more recently, their legal cast. She has been Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sweden and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident Fellow, has received honorary doctorates from Lund University and the University of Iceland, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jordan Corrente Beck
is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and currently practices law in the New York and Tokyo offices of Debevoise & Plimpton. She also edits English language translations and commentary for Stanford Law School’s China Guiding Cases Project.
Lauren DesRosiers
is a graduate of the University of Michigan law school and currently practices law.
William Eves
is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. He was previously an Arts and Humanities Research Council Cultural Engagement Fellow in the University of St Andrews School of History (2016) and a Scouloudi Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London (2015–16). His research focusses on law in medieval England and Normandy c. 1100–1300.
John Hudson
is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews, where he is currently Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. He is also William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.
Elizabeth Papp Kamali
is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her research focuses on the medieval English common law and the history of criminal law, with a particular interest in the early criminal trial jury. Her current projects include studies of the role of criminal intent in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century English felony cases, medieval understandings of anger’s operation in felony adjudication, conflict between urban customary law and the English common law in the early fourteenth century, and the influence of Roman law on the development of the common law.
Kimberley-Joy Knight
is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Constitutional and Legal Research at the University of St Andrews. Her research and publications focus on medieval emotions and gestures, hagiography, and Old Norse.
Simon MacLean
studied at the Universities of Glasgow and London, and is now Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on the history of the Carolingian Empire and its successor kingdoms in the ninth and tenth centuries. His most recent book is Ottonian Queenship, published in 2017 by Oxford University Press.
M. W. McHaffie
received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2014, before taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at King’s College London (2014–2017), where he is now a visiting research fellow. He writes on the subjects of law, lordship, and ritual in eleventh- and twelfth-century France.
Eva Miller
completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2017, in the field of Assyriology. Her doctoral thesis examined the representation of enemy punishments in the Teumman-Dunanu sequences of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal’s reign. She is currently the Teaching Fellow for the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East at the University of Birmingham, and the Henri Frankfort Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, where she is pursuing research into the reception of Assyria in modernist art and architecture. William Ian Miller is her father.
Hans Jacob Orning
has been professor in medieval history at University of Oslo since 2012, after serving as professor of history at University College of Volda 2005–12. His PhD (2004) was published in 2008 as Unpredictability and Presence: Norwegian Kingship in the High Middle Ages. He has published numerous articles on Nordic medieval history, and edited several books. In 2017 he published The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts, combining New Philology and historical approaches to late medieval Icelandic manuscripts.
Jamie Page
is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University. A social and cultural historian of the German-speaking lands in the late Middle Ages, his broad interests include law, gender, sexuality, and popular fiction, which inform specific research projects on prostitution, masculinity, and the early emergence of the concept of ‘good police’ (gute Policey) within the cities of the southern German-speaking Empire.
Susanne Pohl-Zucker
PhD (1997), University of Michigan, is an independent historian living near Mainz (Germany). She has worked as an assistant professor of Early Modern European History at Cornell University and taught seminars as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen and the University of Frankfurt. Her published work includes articles on late medieval and early modern criminal justice in Württemberg and Zurich and Making Manslaughter: Process, Punishment and Restitution in Württemberg and Zurich, 1376–1700 (2017).
Amanda Strick
is a graduate of the University of Michigan law school and currently practices law.
Helle Vogt
is Professor in legal history at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are Nordic legal history 1150–1850 and the interaction between local law and learned Christian legal ideology. Her main publications are about these areas, including The Function of Kinship in Medieval Nordic Legislation (2010) and The Danish Medieval Laws: The Laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland (2016).
Mark D. West
is the Nippon Life Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He joined the faculty in 1998 and has served as Dean since 2013. He is the author of several books on Japanese law.
Stephen D. White
is Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History Emeritus, Emory University, and an Honorary Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews. His books include Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France (2005) and Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism (2005). He has been a Visiting Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; a National Humanities Fellow at the National Humanities Center; and a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School.