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Contributors Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Her publications include Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain () and, as co-editor, Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latina Women (). Her current research focuses on women writers of early modern Spain and on the politics of translation in early modern Europe. Dyan Elliott is John Evans Professor of History at Northwestern University . Her publications include Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages () and Fallen Bodies: Pollution , Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (). Her current research explores the tangible consequences of matrimonial metaphor. Richard Firth Green is Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at The Ohio State University and director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies there. He is the author of A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England () and is currently working on aspects of popular culture in late medieval England. Anna Grotans is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Reading in Medieval St. Gall (). Her current research focuses on language attitudes and linguistic norms in the eastern Frankish Empire. Barbara A. Hanawalt is The King George III Professor of British History at The Ohio State University. She has written books on medieval English crime, family, childhood, and gender. Her book Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and the Economy in Late Medieval London is forthcoming in . Her future work will be on dispute resolution in medieval London.  Mary Lindemann is professor in the Department of History at the University of Miami. Her most recent book, Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great, appeared in . She is currently writing a comparative history of political culture in three early modern cities: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg. Ian Frederick Moulton is associate professor of English in the Division of Humanities and Arts at Arizona State University.He is the author of Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England () and editor and translator of Antonio Vignali’s La Cazzaria, an erotic political dialogue from Renaissance Italy (). His current research is focused on love and the dialogue tradition in sixteenth-century Italy, France, and England. Vickie Ziegler is professor of German and medieval studies at Pennsylavia State University. Her most recent publication is Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature (). She is currently working on a book on dispute settlement in late medieval German literature.  Contributors ...

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