GIOVANNA BENADUSI (Ph.D. Italian Renaissance-Early Modern European History, Syracuse University, 1988), Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on the development of pre-national states with special attention to the interrelationship of gender and class with legal norms, cultural practices, and the family in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Bridging the history of the state and family history, her first book, A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) showed how between the mid-fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries provincial elite families and the government of the Medici Grand Dukes cooperated to strengthen each other at the expense of women and the lower classes of rural and small town society. In 2004-05 a yearlong fellowship at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence, allowed her to complete research for her second book project, "Visions of the Social Order: Women's Last Wills, Notaries, and the State in late Renaissance and Baroque Tuscany." Preliminary results for this book have recently appeared in "Investing the Riches of the Poor: Domestic Women and their Last Wills," American Historical Review (June 2004). She has recently received an ACLS Fellowship for 2007-08 to finish writing her book.

CARRIE BENES (Ph.D., UCLA, 2004), Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History, New College of Florida in Sarasota. She is a cultural historian specializing in late medieval Italy; her dissertation entitled Roman Foundations: Constructing Civic Identity in Late Medieval Italy explores the use of the classical Roman past as political propaganda in the medieval Italian city-states. Her main research interests involve intellectual networks, the classical tradition, and the construction of history and collective memory. Along with revising her dissertation for publication, she is currently working on projects on the medieval resurrection of the classical Roman SPQR acronym and on the status of the Roman rebel Catiline as a local hero in the Tuscan town of Pistoia. Other academic interests include urban history, book history (palaeography, codicology, illumination, and the history of libraries), Italian humanism, the history and historiography of the Renaissance, Norman Sicily, and historical epidemiology (especially of the Black Death). She teaches courses on these subjects as well as medieval and early modern European history more generally.

ALEX BRUCE, Associate Professor of English, Florida Southern College

WILLIAM CALIN is, since 1988, Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida, and, from 1988 to 2001, Florida Foundation Research Professor. He taught at Dartmouth, Stanford, and Oregon, was twice Visting Professor at Poitiers, was Edward Arnold Visiting
Professor at Whitman Colelge, and has been a visiting Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, and the Northrop Frye Centre and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto. He has won ten national/international grants, including ACLS, APS, Fulbright, Guggenheim, and NEH, and was, for nine years, International Vice President of the Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes. He works on medieval French literature, French poetry from the Renaissance to the present, Franco-British literary relations, Middle Ages and Renaissance, and Modern literature in Breton and Occitan. He is the author of ten books and c. 100 articles and has delivered c.200 conference papers and lectures, a number of these more than once. They include thirteen plenary session addresses and sixty-five public lectures at universities. A Muse for Heroes was awarded the Gilbert Chinard First Literaray Prize for 1981; it and The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England received the American Library Association Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award. His most recent volume is Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920-1990. Current projects are The Humanist Critics, from Spitzer to Frye, The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland, and Studies in the Occitan Baroque.

JOHN SCOTT CAMPBELL (Ph.D., Classical Philology, Brown University, 1979), Associate Professor of Latin and Greek, University of South Florida.

NINA CAPUTO (Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1999), Assistant Professor of History, University of Florida.

DAVID R. CARR (Ph.D., University of Nebraska Lincoln, 1971) teaches medieval and Renaissance history at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Carr has edited The First General Entry Book of the City of Salisbury 1387-1452 for the Wiltshire Record Society and currently serves as the editor of The Historian, the journal of the national history honorary Phi Alpha Theta. His research focuses of medieval urban history, and he is currently working on medieval English municipal environmental regulations.

TODD CHAVEZ (MA Library & Information Science, University of South Florida, 1998), Director for Collection Assessment & Technical Services, USF Library System, former Coordinator, Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Initiative.

FLORIN CURTA, Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, University of Florida. Subjects of his recent studies include color perception and color vocabulary in the twelfth-century French literature; ethnic stereotypes in Suger's Deeds of Louis the Fat; the relationship between cave monasticism and frontiers in tenth-century Spain, Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire; female dress and "Slavic" bow fibulae in early seventh-century Greece. Ethnicity is a major theme in his recent book entitled The Making of the Slavs. History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, A.D. 500-700 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 2003. His second book, a history of medieval Southeast Europe between 500 and 1250, is now in print. He is now working on a third book, a study of state formation and representation of power in ninth-century Moravia and Bulgaria, as compared with contemporary developments within the Carolingian Empire. Two collections of essays on East Central Europe in the Middle Ages and frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, respectively, are also in print. He has published extensively in such journals as Hesperia, Speculum, Early Medieval Europe, and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He is the recent recipient of a Andrew Mellon visiting fellowship at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. For fall 2006, he is a Dumbarton Oaks Senior Fellow in Byzantine Studies where he preparing a social and economic history of Greece in the early Middle Ages; in spring 2007, he will hold a membership in the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and his project is on cave monasticism.

MICHAEL DECKER (Ph.D., Oxford University, 2001), Maroulis Professor of Byzantine History, University of South Florida.

JAMES D'EMILIO (Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1989), Associate Professor of Humanities, University of South Florida. His research interests include art, culture, and the church in medieval Galicia (Spain); Romanesque architecture and sculpture; and monasticism in medieval Iberia. Recent articles include "The Cathedral Chapter of Lugo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Reform and Retrenchment," in Cross, Crescent, and Conversion: Studies on Medieval Spain and Christendom in Memory of Richard Fletcher (Leiden: Brill, 2008); "Inscriptions and the Romanesque Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Craftsmen in Romanesque Galicia," in Spanish Medieval Art: Recent Studies, ed. C. Hourihane (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007); “The Legend of Bishop Odoario and the Early Medieval Church in Galicia,” in Church, State, Vellum and Stone: Essays...in Honor of John Williams, ed. J. Harris and T. Martin (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005); “The Royal Convent of Las Huelgas: Dynastic Politics, Religious Reform and Artistic Change in Medieval Castile”, Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, ed. M. P. Lillich, VI (2005) (winner of the 2005 Bishko Prize). He has held grants or fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He is presently at work on an edited volume, Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe, to be published by Brill.

NICOLE GUENTHER DISCENZA (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1996), Associate Professor of English, University of South Florida. Her research focuses mainly on the Anglo-Saxon era, especially Alfredian translations, on which she has published several articles and a book, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius (State U of NY Press, 2005). Her interests also include Anglo-Saxon conceptions of the world and the universe, and she is currently working on a book tentatively titled A Boss on the Shield of the Universe: Geography and Cosmology in Anglo-Saxon England. In addition, she contributes annual reviews to the Prose section of Year' s Work in Old English in the Old English Newsletter. She enjoys teaching British Literature to 1616, History of the English Language, Chaucer, and graduate courses that include Beowulf, the Pearl-poet, and Middle English Romance.

RICHARD K. EMMERSON (Ph.D., English and medieval studies, Stanford University, 1977), Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and Editor of Speculum (1999-2006). In August 2006 he joined the faculty of Florida State University to chair the Department of Art History. Emmerson chaired the Department of English at Western Washington University, and has taught at Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Walla Walla College. At the National Endowment for the Humanities he held the positions of Program Officer for Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1983-85) and Deputy Director of the Division of Fellowships and Seminars (1987-90). In addition to editing Speculum, he has served as a co-editor of Studies in Iconography (1993-2004) and Traditio (1989-99). His publications include numerous articles and reviews on medieval apocalypticism, drama, illustrated manuscripts, and visionary literature, and six books: Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature (1981), Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama (1990), The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (1992), The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (1992), Antichrist and Doomsday: The Middle French “Jour du Jugement” (1998), and Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006).

MARIA ESFORMES (M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Colorado), Associate Professor of Spanish, University of South Florida. Before coming to USF, Dr. Esformes was a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and a Mellon Fellow at Harvard University. While at Harvard she taught in the Department of Folklore and Mythology. Most recently she was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University (England) where she did research and lectured in the Oxford University Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Dr. Esformes is the recipient of two Senior Fulbright Lecturer and Scholar awards. As a Fulbright scholar she has taught and done research at the University of Athens (Greece) and the University of Granada (Spain), and she has also taught in Florence, Italy. At USF, she has received two Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards and two TIP awards (Teaching Incentive Program Award for Excellence in Teaching.)
Dr. Esformes has published extensively on various aspects of Sephardic Studies with an emphasis on the history, literature and folklore of the Greek Sephardim.She speaks fluent Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), Spanish, and Modern Greek. Her most recent publications include detailed studies of contemporary Judeo-Spanish poetry, the literature of Albert Cohen, the autobiography of Elias Canetti, Sephardi folktales, and various other topics on the history and culture of the Sephardim. She has received various research grants from the University of South Florida, the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, and Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

PAULA GERSON (Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of Medieval Art, Chair of Department of Art History, Florida State University

CHARLES GLASHEEN (M.A. candidate, history, University of North Florida), has contributed a chapter to a newly published book, Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, ed. John Pryor. His article deals with Peter the Hermit's feeding of his army between Cologne and Constantinople.

THOMAS GOODMANN (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1990), Associate Professor of English, University of Miami

WILL HASTY, Professor of German Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida. Among his book publications are Art of Arms: Studies of Aggression and Dominance in Medieval German Court Poetry (Winter, 2002) and Adventures in Interpretation: The Works of Hartmann von Aue and Their Critical Reception (Camden House, 1996). His edited volumes include A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's 'Tristan' and A Companion to Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' (Camden House, 2003 and 1999 respectively). His research and teaching interests are mainly in medieval and early modern German literature and culture and the Arthurian tradition.

ANDREW HOLT (M.A., History, University of North Florida; Ph.D Student, History, University of Florida). Andrew is co-author, with Dr. James Muldoon, of Fighting Words: Competing Voices from the Crusades, under contract with Greenwood Press, and he is working on another book with Dr. Alfred Andrea (co-editors and contributors) on Crusade Myths. He is also the author of a number of minor publications for the forthcoming Handbook of Medieval Studies (de Gruyter) edited by Dr. Albrecht Classen and the forthcoming World History Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio) edited by Dr. Alfred Andrea. He has presented several papers on the crusades at numerous conferences throughout the United States and is the editor and originator of the www.crusades-encyclopedia.com.

DAVID F. JOHNSON, Professor of English and Humanities, Florida State University. Originally a native of upstate New York (Rochester), he earned a kandidaats (roughly MA) in English Language and Literature (Historical Linguistics) at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1986. After 11 years living in Holland, he returned to the States in 1987 and earned a PhD in English (Medieval Studies) from Cornell University. He has taught at Florida State University since 1993. His main teaching and scholarly interests include Old and Middle English language and literature, and Middle Dutch Arthurian romance. In addition to a number of articles on those subjects he has published three co-edited collections of articles (Rome and the North. The Reception of the Works of Gregory the Great in the Early Germanic Vernaculars. Ed. Rolf Bremmer, Jr., Kees Dekker, and David F. Johnson. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001; King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries. Ed. Geert H.M. Claassens and David F. Johnson. Medievalia Lovaniensia 28. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2000; and Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature, Ed. David F. Johnson and Elaine M. Treharne. Oxford University Press, 2005), and edited and translated three volumes of Middle Dutch Arthurian romances (of a series of six, all in the Arthurian Archives series, published by : D.S. Brewer , co-edited with Geert H. M. Claassens)): Dutch Romances I: Roman van Walewein (2000); Dutch Romances II: Ferguut (2000); and Dutch Romances III: Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation (2003). In addition to the Arthurian romances, he is currently working on a new critical edition of the Old English translation of Gregory the Great’s Dialogues. He is an Executive Advisory Council member of the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch, and has served as Executive Director of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists since 2000.

PETER L. LARSON , Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Florida (beginning fall, 2006). He has recently published Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1348-1400 (Routledge).

ANNE LATOWSKY (Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle, 2004), Assistant Professor of French, University of South Florida. She specializes in Medieval French literature and its relationship to historiographical traditions ranging from the Carolingian period to the fourteenth century. Her published articles treat both vernacular and Latin texts and she is at work on a book entitled, Holy Land Fictions: The Journey to Jerusalem and Constantinople in the Medieval French Tradition. Her article, "Foreign Embassies and Roman Universality in Einhard's Life of Charlemagne", Florilegium 22 (2005), was awarded the 2007 Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy of America.

FELICE LIFSHITZ (Ph.D., History, Columbia University, 1988), Associate Professor of History, Florida International University. She was born and raised in New York City, where she attended Hunter College High School (class of ’76), Barnard College (B.A., Medieval Studies, 1981) and Columbia University (M.A. and Ph.D. in History, 1983 and 1988). She has taught at Florida International University in Miami since 1989. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics, 684 – 1090 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, Toronto, 1995), of an English translation of Dudo of St. Quentin’s Gesta Normannorum, and of The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia, 627-827 (U Notre Dame P, 2005). Her research is currently focused above all on ideas about gender during the early Middle Ages, especially as those ideas are evidenced in a variety of Rhine-Main area manuscript sources of the 8th and 9th centuries. She serves on the editorial boards of the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA) and the Medieval Feminist Forum, and she is the Section Editor for Medieval Europe for The History Compass. For the academic year 2006-07, she is in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as a member of the School of Historical Studies, and her research project is: "Gender and Manuscript Culture in the Carolingian Valley of the Main".

BRIAN MCONNELL , Assistant Professor of Art History, Florida Atlantic University. With Dr. Marcella Munson, he is co-director of the FAU Southern France Study Abroad Program, based in Alés.

KATHRYN MCKINLEY (Ph.D., University of Delaware), Associate Professor of English, Florida International University

CLAUDIA MINEO (Ph.D., UCLA, 2006), Assistant professor of History, Florida State
University (beginning Fall, 2006). Her area of specialization is the nature and workings of political power in early modern Castile, focusing specifically on political culture, law, towns, and the Habsburg monarchy. Her dissertation, titled Law, Litigation, and Power: The Struggle over Municipal Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Castile, studied how the interaction between monarchy and municipality hinged upon the definition, interpretation, and enforcement of law. She has also written on early modern political treatises; her article, "As Prudent as the Serpent: Machiavelli and the Question of Dissimulation in Saavedra Fajardo's Empresas Políticas," will appear in an upcoming Toronto Press publication of collected essays on Mediterranean history. In 2003-4, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Spain, where she visited national and local archives and studied sixteenth-century paleography. At FSU, Mineo currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the early modern period, such as Culture and Society in Early Modern Spain, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, and the Reformation.

MARCELLA MUNSON, Assistant Professor of French, Florida Atlantic University

MARIE NELSON, Professor Emerita, University of Florida. She teaches Old English (for the Linguistics Program) and Writing about Language (for the Honors Program). She has published two books, Structures of Opposition in Old English Poems (Rodopi B.V. Editions, 1989) and Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (Peter Lang, 1991), and a number of essays on Old, Middle, and Modern English literature. Essays currently in process are "John Gardner: Master of Transformation" and "Knowing and Not-Knowing in Beowulf."

TISON PUGH, Assistant Professor of English, University of Central Florida. He specializes in medieval and Arthurian literatures and gender/queer theory. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and the co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems (with Angela Jane Weisl) and Filming the Other Middle Ages: Race, Class, and Gender in 'Medieval' Cinema (with Lynn Tarte Ramey). He has won teaching awards at the University of Oregon and the University of California at Irvine, as well as a University of Central Florida College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.

DAVID ROHRBACHER (Ph.D. University of Washington, 1998), Assistant Professor of Classics, New College of Florida. He teaches Latin at all levels and classical civilization in all periods. He is also active in the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at New College, and helps to organize the biennial New College conference in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of The Historians of Late Antiquity (Routledge, 2002) and articles and book chapters on late Roman historians, especially Ammianus Marcellinus. His current research focuses on source criticism and literary culture in late antique historiography.

ROBERT ROMANCHUK (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999), Assistant Professor of Modern Slavic Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University

MARYLOU RUUD (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989), Associate Professor of History, University of West Florida.

MARY JANE SCHENCK, Professor of English, University of Tampa, has published The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception (Purdue U Monograph Series in Romance Languages, 1987), co-edited Echoes of the Epic: Essays in Honor of Gerard J. Brault (Summa, 1997), and articles in Comparative Literature, Romanic Review, Reinardus, Olifant, Meleus, and the South Atlantic Review. Early work was on fabliaux and other short Old French narratives forms. A series of recent articles on Philippe de Beaumanoir’s Coutumes, The Roman de Renart, and the Song of Roland are part of a manuscript in preparation on customary law and literary trials entitled The Imaginary and the Law: Medieval Negotiations. Her article on the Baligant episode will appear in a new MLA Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland and an article re-interpreting the Charlemagne window at Chartres is currently being revised. She has held fellowships from NEH, faculty research grants, awards from UT for teaching and scholarship, and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in both Togo and South Africa.

SHIRA SCHWAM-BAIRD (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1994), Associate Professor of French, University of North Florida, teaches French at all levels. Her research focuses primarily on late medieval texts, including text and image studies and manuscript studies, but branches out into other areas. She has published articles on late medieval allegory, the wild man, medieval film, and the myth of the chastity belt, and has published an edition and English translation of Le Jeu de Robin et Marion by Adam de la Halle (Garland Publishing Inc., 1994). Her edition/translation of the fifteenth-century romance epic Valentin et Orson is currently under consideration with a university press. She has given numerous conference papers on various aspects of Valentin et Orson and hopes to turn some more of them into publications.

JUDY SHOAF (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1978), Director, University of Florida Language Learning Center; managing editor, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her translation, in verse, of eight of Marie de France's Lais has been available on the Web for some ten years. She has been the moderator of the Arthurnet email discussion list, in association with the journal Arthuriana, since 1997.

R. ALLEN SHOAF (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1977), Professor of English, University of Florida is a former Marshall Scholar and Danforth Fellow, and recipient of two Fellowships of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1982 and 1999). He is the author of 11 books (including an edition for undergraduate teaching of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde; and the monographs Chaucer’s Body; Milton, Poet of Duality; and Shakespeare’s Theater of Likeness) and over 80 papers and reviews. Over the past 20 years in the University of Florida, he has won six teaching awards as well as the Alumni Professorship in the Department of English. With the late Julian N. Wasserman, he co-founded the prize-winning journal EXEMPLARIA, now entering its 19^th year of publication.

JUDITH SLOVER (Ph.D. candidate, English, University of South Florida) Born and raised in upstate New York, Judith Slover received her M.A. in English at the University of South Florida, and is on the English faculty at Keiser College. Her publications include "A Good Wive Was Ther of Biside Bath", in Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, ed. Robert T. and Laura Lambdin (Greenwood Press, 1995), and she has made various presentations at conferences.

ANDREA STERK (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1994), Associate Professor of History, University of Florida. Before coming to Florida, she taught at Calvin College and the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on religious history in late antiquity and the middle ages. Her recent publications include Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church. The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity (Harvard, 2004) and the sourcebook, Readings in World Christian History. Earliest Christianity to 1453 (Orbis, 2004), co-edited with John Coakley. She has also co-authored with Howard Louthan, John Comenius. Labyrinth of the World (Paulist, 1998) in the Classics of Western Spirituality series. She teaches courses on the history of Christianity, pagans and Christians in late antiquity, “conversion” of the Mediterranean world, medieval women, and Byzantine history. Her new book project examines eastern Christian missions on from the age of Constantine to the conversion of the Slavs (c.300 to c.1000). Beyond teaching and research, she is the mother of three middle school boys and occasionally manages to slip in a set of tennis!

LESLEY STONE (M.A., Art History, University of South Florida, 2005), Special Collections, University of South Florida Library

JACE STUCKEY (Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida)

HUGH THOMAS (Ph.D., Yale University, 1988), Professor of History, University of Miami, author of Vassals, Crusaders, Heiresses, and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire (U. Pennsylvania P, 1993) and The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity after the Norman Conquest, 1066-c. 1220 (Oxford UP, 2003).

ELAINE TREHARNE (BA, PhD Manchester 1992, MArAd Liverpool 1987) has recently arrived at FSU as a Professor in the History of Text Technologies Programme. She previously taught at the University of Leicester, where she was also Head of Department from 2000-04. She specialises in late Old English and early Middle English literary and textual culture. She is a palaeographer and codicologist, and is currently working on the ideology of vernacular script and language, with particular reference to the transmission of religious prose from 1000-1200. Treharne is the Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Project, 'The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220', based in the Department of English at the University of Leicester.
Treharne has published a number of books that reflect her work in the post-Conquest period, including The Old English Life of St Nicholas; Old and Middle English: An Anthology; and Re-Writing Old English in the Twelfth Century (with Mary Swan). She is the General Editor of a new OUP series, Oxford Textual Perspectives, and is co-editing the new Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature. She is the Chair of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland and is the President of the English Association. She is Medieval Editor for Review of English Studies, an Editor for Speculum, and Medieval Editor for Blackwell's Literature Compass.

RALPH TURNER (Ph.D. the Johns Hopkins University), Distinguished Research Professor of History (emeritus), Florida State University. He taught medieval and English history, Renaissance and Reformation for over thirty years at Florida State University and served the History Department for several years as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. He has done research at major British libraries, centering around Henry II, his sons Richard Lionheart and John, their administration of justice and the common law, as well as the transformation of royal servants into professionals. His studieshave resulted in numerous papers presented at conferences in both the United Kingdom and the United States, some forty articles and six books. He has written both individual biographies of thirteenth-century figures and collective biographical studies of royal officials. Among his books are The Origins of the English Judiciary (1985), Men Raised from the Dust (1988), King John (1994), The Reign of Richard Lionheart, co-authored with R.R. Heiser (2000), and Magna Carta through the Ages (2003). Prof. Turner has remained in Tallahassee, Florida, after his retirement where he continues to do research and write on his favourite topics, and he travels widely in Britain and in France, attending scholarly meetings. His current project is a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

MICHELLE R. WARREN (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993), formerly Associate Professor of French and Director of the Ph.D. in Romance Studies, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, now (2006) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College. Her research areas include French medieval literature, romance philology, Arthurian studies, translation theory, and postcolonial theory. She is the author of History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain (1100-1300) (U Minnesota P, 2000) and co-editor of Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She has two projects in development, one on the colonial formation of French medieval studies and the other on French translation in fifteenth-century London.

NANCY WARREN (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997), Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, author of Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England (U Pennsylvania P, 2001) and Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380-1600 (U Pennsylvania P, 2005).

MARY A. WATT (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998), Assistant Professor of Italian and Co-Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of several articles on Dante and medieval Italian culture, as well as the book The Cross that Dante Bears (UP of Florida, 2005). She is interested in pilgrimage and crusading imagery in medieval and early Modern Italian literature.