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Bernard S. Bachrach, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, earned his AB degree at Queens College, CUNY, in history and classical languages and his MA and PhD degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, in medieval history with supporting fields in Roman history, archaeology, and art history. He was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1985 and is a co-founder of the Haskins Society and of the American Society for Medieval Military History (De re Militari). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Medieval Prosopography and founder and editor emeritus of the Journal of Medieval Military History. Among his almost four hundred publications are eighteen books, mostly on early medieval military history. His monographs include Merovingian Military Organization 481–751 (1972), A History of the Alans in the West (1973),Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe (1977),Fulk Nerra—the Neo Roman Consul (1993), The Anatomy of a Little War (1994), Early Carolinglian Warfare (2002), and The Mystic Mind (2004) co-authored with Dr. Jerome Kroll. David S. Bachrach is Associate Professor of medieval history at the University of New Hampshire. His research focuses on the military and institutional history of thirteenth-century England and on the institutional, military, and economic history of the German kingdom in the tenth and eleventh centuries.His publications include Religion and the Conduct of War c. 300–c. 1215 (2003) and (with Bernard S. Bachrach) The “Gesta Tancredi” of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade (2005). Jan Dumolyn is a lecturer in medieval history in the Department of History at Ghent University, where he is also vice-president of the Einhard Research Contributors 361 Institute for Medieval Studies. His fields of interest include the social, political , and cultural history of the late medieval county of Flanders and the city of Bruges in particular, and the interdisciplinary relationship of medieval history and the social sciences. He is the author of three monographs: De Brugse opstand van 1436–1438 (1997), De Raad van Vlaanderen en de Rekenkamer van Rijsel (2002), and Staatsvorming en vorstelijke ambtenaren in het graafschap Vlaanderen (1419– 1477) (2003).He has also published over fifty scholarly articles in journals including The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, The Journal of Medieval History, Urban History,History,The Journal of the Historical Association,The Journal of Social History, Revue Historique, Revue du Nord, and Le Moyen Age. Caroline Dunn is Assistant Professor of History at Clemson University, where she teaches courses in medieval social and political history. She earned her doctorate from Fordham University in New York,where,under the supervision of Maryanne Kowaleski,she completed a thesis entitled Damsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England. The Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools awarded her their 2009 doctoral dissertation award for that work, which she is now revising into a monograph that will consider rape, abduction , and adultery in medieval England. Her article “Forfeiting the Marriage Portion: Punishing Female Adultery in the Secular Courts of England and Italy” is forthcoming in Regional Variations of Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150–1600, edited by Mia Korpiola. Jelle Haemers is postdoctoral research fellow at the department of Medieval History at the Ghent University and collaborator on the IAP project “City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1800” (Federal Science Policy of Belgium). His main fields of research are the social history of medieval politics and the urban history of the Low Countries. He is the editor (with Céline Van Hoorebeeck and Hanno Wijsman) of Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’Etat: Philippe de Clèves (1456–1528), homme politique et bibliophile (2007) and author of De Gentse opstand (1449–1453): De strijd tussen rivaliserende netwerken om het stedelijke hapitaal (2004), and For the Common Good: State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477–1482 (2009). John H. A. Munro received his BA from the University of British Columbia and his MA and PhD, both in history, from Yale University. In 1964 he returned to the University of British Columbia with a joint appointment in the Departments of History and Economics. In 1968 he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. Although he was subjected to mandatory retirement in 2003, he continues to be active in teaching (at Toronto), archival research, 362   Contributors [18.116.40.177] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 17:36...

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