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PETER BILLER is emeritus professor at the University of York. His earlier research was on medieval thought about population and ‘race’ in medieval science. Now he is a member of a group editing a large tranche of the earliest inquisition records from southern France – specifically, those that survive only in seventeenth-century copies.
EMILY CORRAN is lecturer in medieval history at University College London. Her research focuses on practical ethical thought and casuistry in the later middle ages, with a particular interest in manuals for confessors. Her monograph Lying and Perjury in Medieval Practical Thought: a Study in the History of Casuistry was published in 2018.
DAVID D’AVRAY is emeritus professor of history at University College London. He is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Medieval Academy of America.
BLAISE DUFAL is associated researcher to the University of Sydney and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He is a specialist in medieval scholasticism (late thirteenth century – early fourteenth century), with a focus on the classical and patristic traditions. His research interests include the historiography and epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He co-edited L’historien et les fantômes. Lectures (autour) de l’œuvre d’Alain Boureau (Paris, 2017) and Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault (Paris, 2013).
ANTONIA FITZPATRICK is a Bedingfield scholar and Residential Scholar at the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. She is studying the bar professional training course at the City Law School and will begin pupillage at Monckton Chambers in October 2020. Before retraining as a barrister, she held a junior research fellowship and a departmental lectureship in medieval history at St John’s College, Oxford, during which time she published a monograph, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity, with Oxford University Press (2017).
ISABEL IRIBARREN is professor of medieval church history and philosophy at Strasbourg University, and director of the Master of Medieval Studies programme. She has published a number of papers on medieval angelology, scholastic intellectual traditions and the history of medieval Thomism, which led to a monograph: Durandus of St Pourçain: a Dominican Theologian in the Shadow of Aquinas (Oxford, 2005). More recently, her research has focused on Jean Gerson’s work. She is the author of an annotated and widely commented French translation of Gerson’s epic poem Josephina. L’épopée de saint Joseph (2 vols, Paris, 2019).
MATTHEW KEMPSHALL is Cliff Davies Fellow and Clarendon associate professor in history at Wadham College, University of Oxford. He works on the transmission and transformation of aspects of the classical tradition within medieval and early Renaissance Europe. He is the author of The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought (Oxford, 1999) and Rhetoric and the Writing of History 400–1500 (Manchester, 2011).
CORNELIA LINDE studied medieval Latin, classical Latin and auxiliary sciences of history at the universities of Göttingen, Bologna and Freiburg im Breisgau. She holds an MA in cultural and intellectual history and a PhD in combined historical studies from the Warburg Institute, University of London. From 2009 to 2012 she was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History, University College London, after which she joined the German Historical Institute London as a research fellow in medieval history. In April 2020 she took up the professorship of medieval history at the University of Greifswald.
JOHN MARENBON is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (since 1978), and honorary professor of medieval philosophy in the University of Cambridge (since 2010). His most recent books are Pagans and Philosophers: the Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz (Princeton, N.J., 2015) and Medieval Philosophy: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2016).
GERT MELVILLE is senior professor and director of the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG) at the University of Dresden. He researches the functioning of institutions, the organization and spirituality of medieval monasteries, and has published on this topic, among others, the books Charisma und religiöse Gemeinschaften im Mittelalter (Münster, 2005) and The World of Medieval Monasticism (Collegeville, MN, 2016). He is editor of the series Vita regularis (81 vols, Münster, 2019) and co-editor of Brill‘s Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (Leiden, 2016). He is a member of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences, Rome, and a member of the programming committee of the International Medieval Congress, Leeds.
SYLVAIN PIRON is directeur d’études at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His research deals with various aspects of medieval intellectual history, with particular interests in Franciscan radicals, mystics and prophets, and the history of economic thought. His latest monograph is entitled L’occupation du monde (Brussels, 2018).
JOHN SABAPATHY is associate professor of medieval history at University College London. Officers and Accountability in Medieval England (Oxford, 2014) won the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize 2015. He is currently working on The Cultivation of Christendom: Europe 1187–1321, the thirteenth-century volume in the new Oxford History of Medieval Europe series, as well as Emergency History: a Natural History of Humanity for the Present.