Notes on Contributors
Markus Cerman
(1967–2015) was professor of economic and social history at the University of Vienna. His publications include studies on European proto-industrialization and the development of agrarian institutions in late medieval and early modern Europe in a comparative perspective.
Tore Iversen
is professor emeritus in medieval history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published monographs and articles on medieval slavery, property and land tenancy in a Scandinavian and European context.
Michael Mitterauer
is professor emeritus of social history at the University of Vienna. He has published numerous books and articles on social and economic history, including Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path.
John Ragnar Myking
is professor emeritus in medieval and early modern history at Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences. He has published monographs and articles on local and regional history and land tenancy in a European context.
Josef Riedmann
is professor emeritus in medieval history at Leopold-Franzens-UniversitätInnsbruck. He has published monographs and articles on the history of the Holy Roman Empire and Italy in the Middle Ages and on the history of the Tyrol.
Werner Rösener
is professor emeritus in medieval and modern history at the University of Giessen, Germany. He has published monographs and articles on agrarian history, the social and cultural history of European peasants as well as historiographical studies.
Helge Salvesen
is professor emeritus in medieval and early modern history and director of the Library at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. He has published monographs and articles on medieval and early modern economic and agrarian history, as well as sami history.
is professor in medieval history at the University of Zurich and Head of the City Archive of St.Gallen, Switzerland. His research focus is on economic history and document edition.