Notes on Contributors

Barry Allen teaches philosophy at McMaster University. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy.

Wayne Andersen, painter, corporate art consultant, and architect of the King Khaled Mosque in Riyadh, was professor of art history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1985, and on occasion visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Yale Universities. His most recent books are Picasso's Brothel and Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Vulture's Tail.

Mordechai Bar-On, a former member of the Knesset and a colonel in the Israeli army, was a founder of Peace Now. He is currently a fellow of the Yad Ben Zvi Research Institute in Jerusalem. His books include The Gates of Gaza: Israel's Road to Suez and Back and In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement.

Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University, is editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art and author of, most recently, The History of Greek Vases and The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity.

Caroline Walker Bynum is University Professor at Columbia University and, formerly, a MacArthur Fellow. Her books include Metamorphosis and Identity, Jesus as Mother, Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Fragmentation and Redemption, and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336. She is currently writing on devotion to the blood of Christ in the later Middle Ages.

Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita of History at Princeton University, is currently adjunct professor of history, anthropology, and medieval studies at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow in the Center for Comparative Literature there. Her books include Fiction in the Archives, The Return of Martin Guerre, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, Women on the Margins, Slaves on Screen, and, most recently, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Women and War; Democracy on Trial; Real Politics; Power Trips and Other Journeys; Meditations on Modern Political Thought; Public Man, Private Woman; Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities; and, most recently, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.

John L. Flood is professor of German in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London and deputy director of the Institute of Germanic Studies there. A recipient of the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize, he is the author, most recently, of The Printed Book as a Commercial Commodity in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries..

Glenn Holland holds the Bishop James Mills Thoburn Chair of Religious Studies at Allegheny College. His books include The Tradition That You Received from Us: 2 Thessalonians in the Pauline Tradition and Divine Irony, and he is coeditor of a collection of essays about the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus.

Alick Isaacs is associate editor for history, religion, and special projects of Common Knowledge. He has taught medieval history and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Haifa, and is currently writing on the shared milieu of synagogue and church in the European Middle Ages.

Stanley N. Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and is founding director of the Princeton University Center on Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He has also served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of the American Society for Legal History. He is a coauthor, most recently, of Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine and editor-in-chief of the multivolume Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming). His article in this issue of Common Knowledge was based on his Jefferson Lecture, delivered to the University of California, Berkeley, in April 2000.

Jesse M. Lander is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently writing on the connections among print technology, religious polemic, and literary...