Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. Her previous publications include
To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter (1989). She has recently completed a book on early medieval political culture and strategies,
Negotiating Space: Early Medieval Immunities and Other Entry Prohibitions (1999).
Lester K. Little is Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. His most recent publication is Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (1993).