Notes on Contributors
Isabel Alfonso received her doctorate from the U. Complutense, where she was Profesora Titular of Institutional History, and went on to join the Instituto de Historia—CSIC as Investigadora Científica until she retired in 2016. Her research interests include different aspects of rural society (peasant communities, social differentiation), as well as the use of political and legal anthropology in the study of conflicts, political discourse and legitimation, topics on which she has directed several research projects. She is the editor of The Rural History of Medieval European Societies: Trends and Perspectives (Brepols, 2007) and co-editor of (with Hugh Kennedy and Julio Escalona) Building Legitimacy: Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimation in Medieval Societies (Brill, 2004), (with Julio Escalona and Georges Martin) Lucha política: Condena y legitimación en la España medieval (ENS, 2004), and (with José Antonio Jara Fuente and Georges Martin) Construir la identidad en la Edad Media (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2010).
José M. Andrade is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has published on several aspects of medieval Galician history, with a special focus on monasteries and their social impact. He is the author of El monacato benedictino y la sociedad de la Galicia medieval (siglos X al XIII) (Ediciós do Castro, 1997) and the editor of O Tombo de Celanova, 2 vols (Consello da Cultura Galega, 1995). More recently, he has been working on judicial documentation and the settlement of disputes in north-western Iberia during the early and high Middle Ages.
François Bougard is Director of the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS, Paris). He is the author of La justice dans le royaume d’Italie de la fin du VIIIe siècle au début du XIe siècle (EFR, 1995). Other publications include several essays on history of justice and practices of documentation during the early middle ages. His most recent book is Le royaume d'Italie de Louis II à Otton Ier (840–968). Histoire politique (Eudora Verlag, 2022).
Warren C. Brown is Professor for Medieval History at the California Institute of Technology. He studies the social and political history of medieval Europe, especially power, law, and written culture. His publications include Unjust Seizure: Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society (Cornell, 2001), Violence in Medieval Europe (Longman, 2011), (as co-author and editor) Documentary Culture and the Laity in the early Middle Ages (Cambridge UP, 2013), and Beyond the Monastery Walls: Lay Men and Women in Early Medieval Legal Formularies (Cambridge UP, 2023).
Wendy Davies is Professor of History Emerita UCL and an associate member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford. Until her retirement from UCL in 2007, she taught medieval European history and was also successively Head of the History Department, Deans of Arts and of Social and Historical Sciences, and Pro-Provost (Europe). In research she has run interdisciplinary projects which explore the interaction between text and field evidence (hence, with James Graham-Campbell and others, The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany (2000) and the long series of archaeological publications with Grenville Astill). She remains active in research: in the last twenty years northern Iberia has been her focus and her most recent monograph is Windows on Justice in Northern Iberia 800–1000 (Routledge, 2016).
Julio Escalona (Madrid, 1963) received his doctorate in 1996 from the U. Complutense and he is currently Investigador Científico at the Instituto de Historia—CSIC. His main research field is early medieval society and territory. He is co-editor of (with Andrew Reynolds) Scale and Scale Change in the Early Middle Ages: Exploring Landscape, Local Society and the World Beyond (Brepols, 2011) and of (with Orri Vésteinsson and Stuart Brookes) Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe (Brepols, 2019).
Kim Esmark is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Roskilde University. His scholarly interests center on the historical anthropology of medieval society and methodological issues of applying Bourdieusian sociology to historical analysis. He has published articles and co-edited books on gift-giving, ritual, kinship, memory, and dispute processing in Denmark and France, ca. 1000–1300. He is currently involved in an interdisciplinary collective research project about civil war in medieval Scandinavia.
Adam Kosto is Professor of History at Columbia University (New York). He specializes in the institutional and legal history of medieval Europe, with a focus on Catalonia and the Mediterranean. He received his B.A. from Yale University (1989), an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge (1990), and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1996). His most recent books are Hostages in the Middle Ages (Oxford UP, 2012) and (as co-editor) Documentary Practices and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge UP, 2012). He is a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique.
Juan José Larrea is Professor of Medieval History at the University of the Basque Country (Vitoria). He received his Ph.D at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. His main research interests lie in the rural societies of the early and high Middle Ages, a topic on which he has coordinated several research projects. He has also co-directed with Francesca Tinti the Digital Edition of the Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla. Amongst his main publications is La Navarre du IVe au XIIe siècle. Peuplement et société (De Boeck, 1998).
André Evangelista Marques is an independent scholar, member of the Institute for Medieval Studies at NOVA University Lisbon. He specialises in the social and material history of early-to-high medieval Portugal. His books include: O casal: uma unidade de organização social do espaço no Entre-Douro-e-Lima (906–1200) (Toxosoutos, 2008), Da representação documental à materialidade do espaço. Território da diocese de Braga (séculos IX–XI) (Afrontamento, 2014), and (as co-editor) Livro de Mumadona, Cartulário do Mosteiro de Guimarães: Edição crítica (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2016).
Josep M. Salrach is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He has published widely on early medieval Catalonia. His books include El procés de feudalització, segles III–XII (Edicions 62, 1987), Catalunya a la fi del primer mil·lenni (Eumo, 2004) and Justícia i poder a Catalunya abans de l’any mil (Eumo, 2013). He has also directed and co-directed the edition of large collections of medieval Catalan sources: Els pergamins de l’Arxiu Comtal de Barcelona, de Ramon Borrell a Ramon Berenguer I (1999), Els pergamins de l’Arxiu Comtal de Barcelona, de Ramon Berenguer I a Ramon Berenguer IV (2010), and Justícia i resolució de conflictes a la Catalunya medieval (2018).
Igor Santos Salazar teaches Medieval History at the University of Trento (Italy), and is particularly interested in the evolution of the structures of territorial organisation and the articulation of the different societies in various European areas between the sixth and twelfth centuries, through the study of both written sources and material records.
Francesca Tinti held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Cambridge and Bologna, before joining the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) as Ikerbasque Research Professor in 2009. While in Cambridge she worked for five years as post-doctoral research associate for the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. She has directed several research projects, including the Digital Edition of the Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla (with Juan José Larrea) and The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Anglo-Saxon England and Eastern Francia: c. 700–c. 1100. She has published extensively on the documentary, social and religious history of early medieval Europe, with a special focus on cartularies and the role of language in the production of early medieval records.