Notes on Contributors
Ellen Arnold
is Associate Professor of History at Ohio Wesleyan University, and co-editor of the journal Water History. An environmental historian, she is the author of Negotiating the Landscape.
Helen Birkett
is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. She specializes in twelfth-century monastic and religious culture and her publications include The Saintsâ Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics.
Edina Bozóky
is Professor emerita of Medieval History at the Université de Poitiers and member of the Centre dâÃtudes supérieures de Civilisation médiévale. Her most recent publications are Les secrets du Graal: Introduction aux romans médiévaux français du Graal and Les saints face aux barbares au haut Moyen Ãge.
Emma Campbell
is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick specializing in medieval French literature. She is the author of Medieval Saintsâ Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Old French Hagiography, among other works. Her next book explores the relationship between translation and untranslatability in medieval French texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Adrian Cornell du Houx
teaches history at Norwich School. He received his Ph.D. from Lancaster University with a thesis exploring lay sanctity in the central Middle Ages.
David Defries
is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University. He specializes in early medieval hagiography and memory in Flanders. His recent publications include âMirror Neurons, Embodied Cognition and the Authority to Recognize Miracles in the Early Middle Agesâ, in Lectio 4: Studies on the Transmission of Texts and Ideas.
Albrecht Diem
is Associate Professor at Syracuse University. He specializes in the history of late antique and early medieval monasticism, gender and sexuality. His recent publications include Columbanische Klosterregeln and âTeaching Sodomy in a Carolingian Monastery: A Study of Walahfrid Straboâs and Heitoâs Visio Wettiniâ.
Cynthia Hahn
is Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She works on reliquaries and the narrative depiction of saints. Her recent publications include The Reliquary Effect: Enshrining the Sacred Object; Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond (edited with H. Klein) and Strange Beauty: Origins and Issues in the Making of Medieval Reliquaries 400âc.1204.
Samantha Kahn Herrick
is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on medieval hagiography. She is the author of Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy and is currently writing a book on apostolic legends, c.750âc.1350.
J.K. Kitchen
is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. He specializes in medieval religion. His most recent publication on hagiography and the cult of the saints appears in A.C. Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours.
Jamie Kreiner
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the history of early medieval political culture, and she is the author of The Social Life of Merovingian Hagiography and co-editor (with H. Reimitz) of Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown.
Klaus Krönert
is Maître de conferences of Medieval History at the Université de Lille. He specializes in medieval religious, intellectual, and cultural history. His publications include Lâexaltation de Trèves, Ãcriture hagiographique et passé historique de la métropole mosellane (VIIIeâXIe siècle) and he was on the team that translated Einhardâs Life of Charlemagne into French.
Mathew Kuefler
is Professor of History at San Diego State University. His research on gender and sexuality, as well as on the medieval cult of saints, spans late Roman antiquity to the central Middle Ages. He is the author of The Making and Unmaking of a Saint: Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac.
Katherine J. Lewis
is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield. She specializes in later medieval gender, religious and cultural history. Her recent publications include Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England and she is currently co-editing a volume of essays on crusading and masculinity.
Giovanni Paolo Maggioni
is Professor of Latin Medieval Literature and Medieval Philology at the Università degli Studi del Molise (Italy). His recent publications include Il Pugatorio di san Patrizio: testi latini del XIIâXIII secolo e testimonianze di pellgrinaggio and Jean de Mailly, Abbreviatio in gestis sanctorum: Editio princeps.
Charles Mériaux
is Professor of Medieval History at Université de Lille. He specializes in religious history in Francia and recently published La naissance de la France: Les royaumes des Francs (VeâVIIe siècle), as well as co-authoring Le dossier saint Léger.
Paul Oldfield
is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. He specializes in the history of medieval Southern Italy, particularly its urban communities. He has written three monographs, including Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000â1200.
Sara Ritchey
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity.
Catherine Saucier
Associate Professor of Musicology at Arizona State University, specializes in late-medieval sacred music, hagiography, and city culture in the Low Countries. Her publications include A Paradise of Priests: Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liège.
Laura Ackerman Smoller
is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. She specializes in saints and miracles, apocalyptic thought, and the relationship between astrology and prophecy. Recent publications include The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Ineke van ât Spijker
is Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. She has published on medieval hagiography and exegesis, and on monastic ideas of self-fashioning.