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SCOTT G. BRUCE is a professor of history at Fordham University. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead and the author of three books about the abbey of Cluny: Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c. 900–1200 (2007); Cluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet: Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe (2015); and, with Christopher A. Jones, The Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus: A Twelfth-Century Cluniac Poem on Prayer for the Dead (2016). 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 Technische Universität Dresden, in Germany; the Universiteit Gent, in Belgium; and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. He worked his way through college as a grave digger.