John H. Arnold is professor of medieval history at the University of Cambridge and author of numerous books, including Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe (London, 2005) and What is Medieval History? (Oxford, 2008). Recent edited collections include Heresy and Inquisition in France, c.1200-c.1300 (with Peter Biller, Manchester, 2015) and History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century (with Matthew Hilton and Jan Rüger, Oxford, 2018).
Caroline M. Barron is professorial research fellow at the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of many articles and the editor of several collections of essays. Her book London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People, 1200–1500 was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. In 2019 she was the recipient of a volume entitled Medieval Londoners, offered on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, and published by University of London Press.
Paul Binski is professor of the history of medieval art at the University of Cambridge. He specializes in the art and architecture of Western Europe in the Gothic period in England especially. His fields of interest include manuscript, panel and wall painting, sculpture and architecture, patronage and the relationship of art and ideas. His most recent books include Gothic Wonder (New Haven, Conn., 2014) and Gothic Sculpture (New Haven, Conn., 2019).
Susan Boynton is professor of historical musicology at Columbia University. She works on medieval liturgy and chant in regions of what are now Italy, France and Spain. Susan is the author of Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125 (Oxford, 2006), which won the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society. Recent publications include Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Oxford, 2011) and Resounding Images. Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and Sound (Turnhout, 2015), co-edited with Diane J. Reilly which received the Ruth A. Solie Award of the American Musicological Society.
Giles Constable is professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. His many works explore the culture of monasticism in eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe and its lasting effect on the later middle ages.
Virginia Davis is professor of medieval history and dean for research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research addresses themes in late medieval ecclesiastical and educational history, brought together in the biography William Wykeham (London, 2007). Other published works deal with the motivations of medieval priests in seeking ordination, and with the priesthood of medieval London. Her collection The Individual in Late Medieval England, co-edited with Julia Boffey, was published in 2009.
Janet L. Nelson is professor emerita of medieval history at King’s College London. Her research interests lie chiefly in Carolingian culture and politics. Her debts, intellectual and personal, to Christopher Brooke go back to his years in London when she attended his seminars at the Institute of Historical Research. Her latest book, King and Emperor: a New Life of Charlemagne, was published by Allen Lane in 2019.
William J. Purkis received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, and after a period of teaching at Queen Mary, University of London he is now reader in medieval history at the University of Birmingham. His publications include a monograph on Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, c.1095–c.1187 (Woodbridge, 2008), The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts, co-edited with Matthew Gabriele (Woodbridge, 2016) and a number of articles on eleventh- and twelfth-century Iberian Christian perceptions of the past.
Miri Rubin is professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research explores the religious cultures of Europe, c. 1100–1600 and her many publications include Mother of God: a History of the Virgin Mary (New Haven, Conn., 2009) and City of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2020) based on her 2017 Wiles Lectures given at Queen’s University Belfast.