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SCOTT G. BRUCE is a professor of medieval history and the director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. An expert on medieval monasticism, he has written two books about the monks of the abbey of Cluny: Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c. 900–1200 (2007) and Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet: Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe (2015). A coeditor of The Medieval Review and an active member of The Medieval Academy of America, he has lectured in Israel and throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe and has held visiting research appointments at the Technische Universität Dresden, in Germany; the Universiteit Gent, in Belgium; and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. He worked his way through college as a grave digger.