Merridee L. Bailey is a social and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern England. Her first book, Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England (2012; pbk 2018), explored morality and courtesy in late medieval socialising discourses for young people. Additionally, she has written articles and chapters on the history of book culture, religious history, the history of emotions, and law and emotions. She is currently writing a book on the religious and social value of meekness from the Middle Ages to the present.
Nicholas Dean Brodie is a historian and author based in Hobart, Tasmania. His PhD examined English vagrancy legislation, and he continues to research and publish on late medieval and early modern topics, as well as on the history of colonial Australasia. His last two books were 1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings (2016) and The Vandemonian War: The Secret History of Britain’s Tasmanian Invasion (2017).
E. Jane Burns recently retired as the Druscilla French Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of numerous publications on gender and clothing including Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (1993), Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (2002), and Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women’s Work in Medieval French Literature (2009). She is also the editor of a volume of essays entitled Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork and Other Cultural Imaginings (2004).
Tania M. Colwell specialises in the social and cultural history of late medieval France and England. She is a visiting fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, where she has lectured in medieval and early modern European history, and she is also an Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has published in the fields of manuscript and early book culture, gender, patronage, emotions, and the marvellous. Her current book projects investigate the manuscript transmission and reception of the French Mélusine romances and the emotions of intercultural encounter in early travel narratives.
Jeremy Goldberg has written extensively on a variety of overlapping social and cultural history topics around gender, family, childhood, and housing in later medieval England. He teaches at Centre for Medieval Studies and in the Department of History at the University of York.
Julie Hotchin is a religious and cultural historian of medieval Europe. She is a visiting fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, and Honorary Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has published research on medieval religious women, aspects of manuscript culture, and devotion and emotion. She is co-editor, with Fiona J. Griffiths, of Partners in Spirit: Women, Men and Religious Life in Germany, 1100–1500 (Brepols, 2014). Her current project examines gender and authority in late medieval monastic reform.
Diana Jeske completed her PhD at Monash University in 2015. Her thesis, Experimenting with Intimacy in the Latin West, 1080–1180, examined a variety of sources, primarily letter exchanges, in which medieval men and women constructed novel understandings of appropriate intimate relationships between the sexes. Prior to finishing her PhD, Diana completed a Master of Studies in Medieval History at the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Simon Fraser University. She currently works as a learning skills advisor for the Monash University Library, helping students develop the necessary academic skills to succeed in university study. She is co-editor of the Companion to Medieval Letters and Letter Writing, forthcoming from Brill.
Anne Montenach is Professor of Early Modern History at Aix-Marseille University (Aix Marseille Univ., CNRS, TELEMME, Aix-en-Provence, France). Dr Montenach defended her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence and her thesis was published as L’économie du quotidien. Espaces et pratiques du commerce alimentaire à Lyon au XVIIe siècle (2009). Following research on the early modern urban economy with a special emphasis on informal circulations and exchange, she has turned to working on female economic territories in early modern Europe and is identifying how women were pivotal to urban economies, both illicit and legitimate. She has recently published several articles and books including Femmes, pouvoirs et contrebande dans les Alpes au XVIIIe siècle (2017). She has co-edited with Deborah Simonton two collections of essays, Gender in the European Town: Female Agency in the Urban Economy, 1640–1830 (2013) and Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700–1914 (with Marjo Kaartinen, 2014), and is working with her as series editor on the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Work (2018). She was also a section editor of The Routledge History Handbook on Gender and the Urban Experience (2017), edited by Deborah Simonton.
Sarah Randles is an honorary research fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, an adjunct researcher at the University of Tasmania, and was recently a postdoctoral fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her current research project explores the emotions of pilgrimage and sacred place, focusing on the relics and other aspects of material culture of Chartres Cathedral. She has also published on medieval and later textiles, the Arthurian legend, and on medievalism in Australian architecture.
Ariadne Schmidt is an assistant professor at the Institute for History at Leiden University. She is a social and economic historian working in the field of gender history. After she received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, she was affiliated with the International Institute of Social History where she directed a research project on women’s work in the early modern Northern Netherlands. In 2010 she came to Leiden University where she co-directed the research project on Crime and Gender, 1600–1900: A Comparative Perspective. She has published on the history of women’s work, children’s work, gender, labour ideologies, guilds, family history, the history of law, singles, and crime.
Ellen Thorington is an associate professor of French at Ball State University, where she has served since receiving her doctorate from Princeton University in 2003. Her research interests are in medieval poetics, short narrative, and the female voice; her work includes articles on Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, and Chrétien de Troyes among others. She co-edited Dame Philology’s Charrette: Approaching Medieval Textuality through Chrétien’s Lancelot (2012), and is currently working on a book project: Proverbs and Old Wives’ Fables: Women as Figures of Wisdom in Old and Middle French Literature.