Notes on Contributors
Paul A. Broyles
is a Lecturer in English at North Carolina State University, where he formerly held a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies. As Technical Director of the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET) and Technical Editor of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, he works on textual encoding and digital environments for medieval literature. His research interests include romance, geographic thought, and translation of medieval popular literature.
Sarah Croix
is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), School of Culture and Society, the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She is a specialist in Viking Studies and has published previously on various aspects of daily life, urbanism, cross-cultural contacts, and identities in early medieval Europe and Viking-age Scandinavia from an interdisciplinary perspective. Since 2012 she has worked extensively with the archaeology of Ribe, including her recent research project funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture’s Research Committee “The City of the Dead,” dedicated to the study of Ribe’s pre-Christian cemetery. She is currently involved in the publication of the results of the major research excavation at the emporium Ribe conducted in the frame of the “Northern Emporium” project (2017–2018).
Gavin Fort
received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in medieval history. He has published three articles on the phenomenon of proxy penance in the early Middle Ages (“Penitents and Their Proxies: Penance for Others in Early Medieval Europe,” Church History), in scholastic texts and female religious communities (“Suffering Another’s Sin: Proxy Penance in the Thirteenth Century,” Journal of Medieval History), and in late medieval pilgrimage practices (“ ‘Make a Pilgrimage for Me’: The Role of Place in Late Medieval Proxy Pilgrimage,” in Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time). More broadly, his research focuses on the way emotions like empathy and nostalgia influenced medieval religious culture. His interest in the history of medieval children and the Boy Bishop ceremony stems from his own two children and their predilection for misrule.
Sophia Germanidou
is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle. She specializes in Byzantine art and material culture and her recent publications include the book Byzantine Honey Culture published by the National Hellenic Recearch Foundation.
Danielle Griego
received her PhD at the University of Missouri. She specializes in emotional responses to child death in medieval England and has an essay, “A Mother’s Guilt: Female Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England,” in Literary Cultures and Medieval/Early Childhoods.
Máire Johnson
earned her doctorate at University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies in 2010. She is now Associate Professor of History at Emporia State University in eastern Kansas. Máire has spoken and published on a number of aspects of medieval Irish hagiography, with particular focus not only on the ways in which early Irish law intersects with the hagiographical genre, but also on the prevalence and uses of apocryphal material in the literary portraiture of Ireland’s saints; she explores both of these themes in two monograph projects on which she is currently hard at work. Máire is additionally interested in medieval medical practices and in concepts of identity in the Middle Ages, both within Ireland and beyond.
Daniel T. Kline
(Ph.D, Indiana University) is Professor of English and Director of General Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he specializes in medieval literature, literary theory, and digital medievalism. Widely published in many venues, his current research concerns children, violence, and ethics in late-medieval England; the ethical thought of Emmanuel Levinas; and digital gaming and neomedievalism. His recent edited collections include the Continuum Handbook of Medieval British Literature (Continuum, 2009), Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012, with Gail Ashton), and Digital Gaming Re-Imagines the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2014).
Jenni Kuuliala
is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow in the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University. She has studied late medieval and early modern disability, the cults of saints, and healing. Her current project analyzes religious experiences of infirmity in late medieval and early modern Italy. Among her publications are the monographs Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages: Constructions of Impairments in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Canonization Processes (Brepols, 2016).
Lahney Preston-Matto
is Professor of English at Adelphi University, located on Long Island, New York. She has a long-standing interest in women and children in the Middle Ages, and has written about the use of women and children as hostages in medieval Ireland, as well as the fosterage system in medieval Europe and how it is represented in medieval Irish saints’ lives and Icelandic texts. She is the author of Aislinge meic Conglinne/The Vision of Mac Conglinne (Syracuse University Press, 2010).
Melissa Raine
is a Research Associate at the University of Melbourne’s School of Culture and Communication. She has published on Middle English writing about food in New Medieval Literatures, Viator, JEGP and Routledge’s Studies in Social and Political Thought series. She recently co-edited Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries. Her current research focuses on children’s voices in both Middle English Literature as well as in contemporary Australian culture, projects that offer mutually informative insights into the concept of childhood over the longue durée. Her interest in the significance of language within an integrated (embodied) concept of communication informs her participation in an interdisciplinary project exploring autism, music and social connections amongst children and young adults.
Eve Salisbury
Professor Emerita of English, Western Michigan University, is the author of Chaucer and the Child, editor and co-editor of four volumes for the Middle English Texts Series, founding co-editor of Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, and consulting editor for Comparative Drama. She is currently at work on a book project that explores ways in which medical treatises, plague narratives, and prescriptive poetry provide therapeutic reading as well as remedies for bodies in pain.
Ruth Salter
graduated from her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded doctorate at the University of Reading in 2016. Currently she holds the post of Lecturer in medieval history (part-time) at Reading, working with the Department of History and the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies. Ruth’s research interests are focused on the long twelfth century, healthcare, and particularly where ill-health and healing overlap with religion. Her monograph, Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing will be published in August 2021 with Boydell & Brewer and York Medieval Press. She has also written on the representation of pain within posthumous miracle accounts, and has provided case-studies for the cult of St Æbbe of Coldingham.
Bridgette Slavin
is currently Assistant Professor of the Practice in History in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Medaille College. She recently published an essay entitled, “Secret Killing and Magic in the Law of Adamnán,” for the volume Murder Most Foul: Homicide in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era (Boydell Press, 2018) and is currently working on a manuscript for the University of Wales Press entitled Druídecht: Perceptions of Magic and Druidry in Early Irish Texts. In addition to her interest in the topics of children and magic in medieval Irish law, Bridgette’s other areas of research include kingship, liminality, and the experience of women in the criminal justice system of Anglo-Norman Ireland. Her next book-length project is on the female felon in medieval Ireland.
Mary Valante
is a Professor of History at Appalachian State University and a former Scholar at the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of The Vikings in Ireland: Settlement, Trade and Urbanization (Four Courts Press, 2008), as well as articles on Irish and Viking-Age history. She has volunteered at archaeological sites including the Crannóg Archeology Project at Loch Ennell, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and at an excavation of a medieval cemetery in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Her current research is on women’s work and identities in Viking-Age Ireland.