Note from the Editor

After Bob Hasenfratz stepped down from the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures earlier this year, Dr. Sherri Olson graciously agreed to join me as co-editor. Sherri is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1988. Her publications include A Chronicle of All that Happens: Voices from the Village Court in Medieval England (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996), A Mute Gospel: People and Culture of the Medieval English Common Fields (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2009), and Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery (Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2013). She is beginning work on a new project that will explore the total setting of smaller monasteries in their interactions and connections with the local laity, in terms of social, economic, and cultural impact, especially with respect to peasant religion (“parish Christianity”).

We hope that Sherri’s interests and expertise will help take the journal in new directions. I would like to thank Sherri for her hard work on this issue, and I look forward to collaborating with her closely on all things JMRC.