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ConTribUTors lisa h. CooPer is Assistant Professor in the Department of English of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With the exception of her ongoing fascination with Galbert of Bruges, her work focuses primarily on the intersection of late-medieval literature and material culture. She is co-editor of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan , 2008) and has recently completed a monograph on the literary representation of artisanal labor in the later Middle Ages. goDfrieD Croenen teaches at the University of Liverpool, where he is Director of the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He received his Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Ghent for a study of the medieval nobility of Brabant, which was the subject of his first book (Leuven University Press, 2003). He has also published an innovative source edition connected to the same project: a reconstruction of the medieval archives of the Berthout family (Académie Royale de Belgique, 2007). His current research is concerned with vernacular historiography and the growing market for manuscripts in late medieval northwest Europe. He has recently co-edited a volume on manuscript culture in Paris (Peeters, 2006) and has published articles on the biography and the manuscripts of Jean Froissart’s work in Viator (2002), in the Journal of the Early Book Society (2008), and in the conference volume Froissart dans sa forge (Collège de France, 2006). He is Associate Director of the Online Froissart Project (Sheffield and Liverpool). berT DemyTTenaere studied philosophy and history at the University of Ghent, taught medieval history and the theory of history for more than thirty years at the University of Amsterdam, translated the De multro, traditione et occisione gloriosi Karoli comitis Flandriarum of Galbert of Bruges into Dutch (last revised edition 2000), and has published a number of articles about Galbert and his world. In cooperation with Louk C. Meijer he is preparing a Dutch translation of Walter of Thérouanne’s “Vita Karoli comitis Flandrię.” mary agnes eDsall received her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and is Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College, Maine. Her work focuses on reading practices and religious formation, lay, clerical, and mo279 280 ConTribUTors nastic. Her long-standing interest in the fabliaux, however, keeps her aware of the lighter side of medieval life. Recent publications include articles on Ancrene Wisse and on The Wanderer. She is currently working on monastic anthologies and vernacular devotional collections, on the Arma Christi, and on Anselm’s Prayers and Meditations as charismatic text. marTina häCker received her doctorate from the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she studied English language, medieval history, and medieval Latin, and gained her Habilitation in 2008. She currently teaches the history of the English language and linguistics at the University of Paderborn. She combines her diverse research interests in studies of the depiction of women in medieval literary and non-literary texts. Dirk heirbaUT studied both law and history and is currently Professor of legal history and Roman law at the University of Ghent. His Ph.D. thesis was on feudal law in the county of Flanders from 1000 to 1305, and he has written or co-edited fifteen books on medieval legal history, the history of private law in Belgium after 1804, and legal history in general. His current work is on the spokesmen of the courts of customary law in Northern France. He is a Korrespondierender Mitglied der Zentraldirektion der Monumenta Germaniae Historica , secretary of the legal history committee of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts, and a member of the board of editors of the Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Legal History Review. sTeven isaaC earned his Ph.D. in medieval history from Louisiana State University and is now an Associate Professor of history at Longwood University in Virginia. Isaac’s work looks most often at military culture, especially at the places before/after/around battles. To that end, his primary research has been on the mercenaries of the twelfth century: their origins, their motivations, the biases held against them, and their effect on both warfare and the societal institutions around them. Several book chapters and encyclopedia articles have resulted from this research. An interest in the emotional pressures of battle led to the current work on Galbert as well as a recent article, “Cowardice and Fear Management: the 1173–74 Conflict as a Case Study,” in the Journal of Medieval Military History (2006). alan v...

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