In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

  • Notes on Contributors

Maeve B. Callan is assistant professor of religion and women’s studies at Simpson College in Iowa, where she teaches courses on mysticism, world religions, and American religious history, among others. She has published on various aspects of women and sainthood in early Ireland and is currently revising her dissertation, “‘No Such Art in This Land’: Heresy and Witchcraft in Fourteenth-Century Ireland,” for publication.

Margaret Cormack is professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She has published The Saints in Iceland: Their Veneration from the Conversion to 1400 (Société des Bollandistes, 1994) and edited two volumes, Sacrificing the Self: Perspectives on Martyrdom and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Saints and Their Cults around the Atlantic (University of South Carolina Press, 2007). She is working on translations of Icelandic saints’ lives and a database of saints’ cults and miracle collections.

Anders Fröjmark is associate professor of history at Linnæus University, Kalmar, Sweden. His publications include Mirakler och helgonkult: Linköpings biskopsdöme under senmedeltiden (Miracles and the cult of the saints: The Linköping bishopric during the late Middle Ages [summary in French]) (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1992). He is also the coeditor of Baltic Region: Conflicts and Co-operation: Road from the Past to the Future (Tallinn: Euroülikool and Kirjastus Ilo, 2004).

Valerie L. Garver is associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University, where she teaches medieval history and medieval studies. She is the author of Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World (Cornell University Press, 2009). Currently she is working on a new book project titled The Meanings and Uses of Dress and Textiles in the Carolingian World, c. 715–c. 915. [End Page 364]

Fiona Harris-Stoertz is associate professor and chair of history at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches medieval history. She has published on various aspects of high medieval childhood, adolescence, and birth.

Donald S. Prudlo is associate professor of ancient and medieval history at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. His research interests include hagiography and saints’ lives, medieval miracle stories, church history, and the development of canonization. His publications include The Origins, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies (Brill, 2011), The Martyred Inquisitor: The Life and Cult of Peter of Verona († 1252) (Ashgate, 2008), and “The Assassin Saint: The Life and Cult of Carino of Balsamo,” Catholic Historical Review (January 2008).

Nancy L. Wicker is professor of art history at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches medieval art and archaeology. Besides publishing on Viking art, female infanticide, and runic literacy, she has coedited three volumes, most recently, Situating Gender in European Archaeologies (Archaeolingua, 2010). She has excavated at Birka in Sweden and is a member of the Royal Society of Humanities at Uppsala. She is also a councilor of the Medieval Academy of America. [End Page 365]

...

pdf

Share