Sébastien Barret
is a researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT). He is the author of La mémoire et l’écrit: L’abbaye de Cluny et ses archives (Xe-XVIIIe siècle) (Lit Verlag, 2004). Besides Cluny, his scholarly interests include diplomatics, palaeography, the edition of charters, and more generally the history of written culture in medieval Europe.
Anne Baud
is maître de conferénces in Archaeology at the University of Lyon 2 (France). She has published many studies on the physical remains of Cluny and its churches based on her ground-breaking archaeological excavations, including most recently (with Christian Sapin and others) Cluny: Les origines du monastère et de ses églises (CTHS, 2019).
Robert F. Berkhofer III
is Associate Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Days of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). His research focuses on the social and cultural history of England, France, and Flanders from 900 to 1200, with special attention to monastic documentary culture and historical writings.
Constance B. Bouchard
is Distinguished Professor emerita at the University of Akron, who specializes in the social and ecclesiastical history of France, 500–1200. Her major monographs are Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980–1198 (Cornell University Press, 1987), Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), and Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500–1200 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Her forthcoming book is about the French peasantry. She has also published editions of five French cartularies, most recently The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Bèze (Medieval Academy Books, 2019).
Susan Boynton
is Professor of Music at Columbia University. She is a medievalist and musicologist with research interests in the liturgy and chant of Latin monasticism, music and childhood, musical iconography, liturgical drama, troubadour song, and the history of the Hispanic rite in the early modern period. She is the author of Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125 (Cornell University Press, 2006) as well as co-editor of Gesta and the interdisciplinary book series Disciplina Monastica (Brepols).
is Professor of Medieval History at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. An historian of religion and culture in the early and central Middle Ages (c. 400–1200 CE), his research interests include monasticism, hagiography, and the reception of classical and patristic traditions in medieval Europe. He has published several books on the abbey of Cluny, including Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition (c. 900–1200) (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet: Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe (Cornell University Press, 2015); and (with Christopher A. Jones), The Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus: A Twelfth-Century Cluniac Poem on Prayer for the Dead (Brepols, 2016).
Isabelle Cochelin
is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, working on male monasticism in the central Middle Ages and focusing on less studied groups and spaces of monastic communities. Her most recent publication is the Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2020), co-edited with Alison Beach. She is co-editing a collection of essays with Diane Wolfthal on servants in Western Europe between 1000 and 1700 and her new collaborative research project concerns non-cloistered religious women between 1100 and 1800.
Michael Hänchen
is a historian at FOVOG – Dresden. He studied medieval history, Saxon regional history, and political science, and received his doctorade from the Technische Universität Dresden. His research interests are medieval historiography and the legitimation of rule, medieval diplomatics and endowments, as well as the institutional history and organizational practice of medieval orders.
Eliana Magnani
is a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She is a social historian of the early and central Middle Ages, working on gift exchange, literacy, and digital humanities. Among her recent publications, she has edited Reconstituer, composer, corréler, compiler: Productions et pratiques sociales de l’écrit médiéval en Bourgogne (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021).
is Professor Emeritus of History at the Technische Universität Dresden. A specialist on the history of monastic orders in the high Middle Ages, he is the author of many influential articles about the abbey of Cluny and editor of the book series Vita regularis (LIT Verlag). His most recent book is The World of Medieval Monasticism: Its History and Forms of Life, trans. James D. Mixson (Cistercian Publications, 2016).
Benjamin Pohl
is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Programme Director of the MA in Medieval Studies, and International Co-Director of the School of Humanities at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on medieval monastic history and manuscript culture with a specialisation in codicology, palaeography, and cultural memory studies. He is the author of Dudo of Saint-Quentin’s Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation, and Memory (York Medieval Press, 2015).
Denyse Riche
is maître de conférences honoraire in Medieval History at the University of Lyon 2 (France). She is a historian of the monastic orders, principally in the central and late Middle Ages. She has published many studies on the order of Cluny, including L’ordre de Cluny à la fin du Moyen Âge. Le “vieux pays clunisien” XIIe-XVe siècle (CERCOR, 2000); and (with O. Hurel), Cluny: De l’abbaye à l’ordre clunisien Xe-XVIIIe siècle (Armand Colin, 2010).
Isabelle Rosé
is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Rennes 2 (France). She is the author of Construire une société seigneuriale: Itinéraire et ecclésiologie de l’abbé Odon de Cluny (fin du IXe-milieu du Xe siècle) (Brepols, 2008) and many articles about the history of early Cluny. She is currently writing a book about the prohibition of clerical marriage in the Middle Ages.
Marc Saurette
is Associate Professor of History/Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where he regularly offers courses in the history of the Middle Ages, gamifying medieval society, and digitizing manuscripts. His research focuses on the writings of Peter the Venerable and his writing circle in the twelfth-century ecclesia Cluniacensis. He is currently developing a project to make the writings of Peter and other Cluniac monks more accessible online.
is Full Professor of Early and High Medieval History at Ghent University. His research is primarily concerned with the development, societal embedding, and culture of monastic groups between circa 800 and 1200, and covers a wide range of subjects, including the shaping of collective identities, leadership and institutional dynamics, discourses and realities of ecclesiastical and religious reform, and gendered identities. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages: Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform (Cornell University Press, 2015); Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050 (Cornell University Press, 2018); and Medieval Monasticisms: Forms and Experiences of the Monastic Life in the Latin West (De Gruyter/Oldenbourg, 2020).