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Alexandra Barratt is Professor Emerita of English at The University of Waikato. She has published several editions of Middle English texts, an anthology, Women’s Writing in Middle English (2nd edn, Longman, 2010), and was co-editor of Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand (Cambridge Scholars, 2007).

Judith Collard is a Senior Lecturer and the Programme Coordinator for Art History and Theory in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago. She teaches courses in medieval, gender, and contemporary art history. She has published widely in international journals, including Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Journal of Medieval History, and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History. She is presently writing a book on Matthew Paris and his manuscripts.

Glynnis Cropp is Professor Emerita (French) and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at Massey University. Her research interests and publications are in medieval studies: Occitan courtly poetry; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French translations of Boethius’s Consolatio Philosophiae, and the writings of Christine de Pizan and Eustache Deschamps. Her recent major publications include Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion. Edition critique (Droz, 2006) and Böece de Confort remanié. Edition critique (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2011). Her critical edition of La Voie de Povreté et de Richesse, a fourteenth-century allegorical poem, is soon to be published by the Modern Humanities Research Association.

Stephanie Hollis is Professor Emerita of The University of Auckland, where she taught medieval literature and medievalism in the Department of English. She was, for a number of years, Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern European Studies, where, with Alexandra Barratt, she co-edited Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand (Cambridge Scholars, 2007). She is currently on the International Editorial Board of Parergon and is a Trustee of the Auckland Library Heritage Board. [End Page 411]

Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His primary area of research is the thought of medieval chroniclers and the development of political conceptions in late medieval France. Since arriving in New Zealand in 2006, he has developed an interest in the history of the book. In this area, he has co-edited the award-winning Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library (Canterbury University Press, 2011) and is involved in a number of ongoing digital projects. He became a New Zealand citizen in November 2015.

Geoff Kemp is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at The University of Auckland. His research in political thought focuses on past and present ideas about freedom of expression, censorship, and the press, particularly from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and including work on John Milton and John Locke. His most recent book is the edited volume Censorship Moments: Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression (Bloomsbury, 2015), and he is co-editor of Censorship and the Press, 1580–1720 (4 vols, Pickering & Chatto, 2009) and Politics and the Media (Pearson, 2013; 2nd edn, forthcoming).

Simone Celine Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago. Her research concerns late Middle English literature, particularly the influence of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer on later literature, and on authorship and anonymity. She is the author of two monographs and several articles on the fifteenth-century anonymous poem The Assembly of Ladies.

Robert Rouse is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has published three scholarly books and seventeen articles and book chapters on various aspects of medieval literature. He is currently completing a monograph on the geographical imagination of late medieval England, co-editing the Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature (4 vols, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming), and helping to facilitate the activities of the eco-humanities collective known as Œcologies (see www.oecologies.com). [End Page 412]

Maree Shirota is currently a doctoral candidate at the Collaborative Research Centre 933 (Material-Texts-Cultures) of the German Research Foundation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Gerald Hunt Prize for best Honours dissertation, and in 2013...

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