Makram Abbès
is Professor of Arabic Studies at the ENS of Lyon and, since September 2021, Director of CEFREPA (Centre Français de Recherche de la Péninsule Arabique). His areas of research include the theory of war in Islam, the political thought of medieval scholars and jurists, political philosophy (Farabi, Avempace, Averroes), and moral and political philosophy in Islam.
Denise Aigle
is Directrice d’Étude émérite à l’ÉPHE, and a specialist in medieval history and sanctity in Iran. She has published several monographs and collective works as well as numerous articles. Her main publications include Le Fārs sous la domination mongole (XIIIe–XIVe s.), Paris, 2005, The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, Leiden, 2015 (Saidi-Sirjani Prize 2016, International Society for Iranian Studies) and Mūsā dar mutūn-i ʿirfānī-yi fārsī (Moses in Persian Mystical Texts), Teheran, 2021.
Olivier Biaggini
is Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in Medieval Hispanic Literature and Civilization at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris, France) and a member of LECEMO-CREM EA 3979 at the same university. His work focuses mainly on Castilian literature from the 13th and 14th centuries, both in verse (mester de clerecía poems, Libro de buen amor…) and prose texts (Don Juan Manuel). He is particularly interested in short forms such as exempla, miracles or lists.
Hugo O. Bizzarri
is Professor of Hispanic Philology and History of Language at the University of Fribourg and a member of the Institute for Medieval Studies. His fields of research are medieval exempla, collections of proverbs and editing of texts. Among the texts he has edited are the Spanish versions of the Secretum secretorum.
Charles F. Briggs
is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Vermont and author of Giles of Rome’s “De regimine principum” (Cambridge UP, 1999) and The Body Broken: Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300–1525 (Routledge, 2020); and co-editor, with Peter S. Eardley, of A Companion to Giles of Rome (Brill, 2016).
is University Professor in Modern History, accredited to supervise research at the History Department of Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, and member of the Rhône-Alpes Laboratory of Historical Research (LARHRA). She is a political historian of early modern Europe, specialist in princes and courts, royal education and representations. She is currently researching the spiritual education of princes and the political significance of hagiology during the reign of Philip II of Spain.
Jean-Philippe Genet
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His field of expertise covers the cultural and political history of the medieval West.
John R. Lenz
is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Columbia University, has taught there and elsewhere, and works on ancient history and the history of ideas. He served as President and Chair of the Bertrand Russell Society.
Louise Marlow
is Professor of Religion at Wellesley College. In much of her research, she has concentrated on the pre-modern Arabic and Persian mirror-for-princes literature. She is the author of Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran (Edinburgh, 2016) and Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought (Cambridge, 1997), and she has recently completed Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice (Cambridge, forthcoming). Her current research explores examples of Arabic and Persian bilingualism and translations between Arabic and Persian, with particular attention to early fourteenth-century Iran.
Cary J. Nederman
is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. His research concentrates on the history of Western political theory, with a specialization in classical Greco-Roman and early European ideas up to the seventeenth century. His latest books are Thomas Becket: An Intimate Portrait (Paulist Press, 2020) (co-authored with Karen Bollermann) and The Bonds of Humanity: Cicero’s Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, c.1100–c.1550 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020).
is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. She is member of the CRHEC (Centre de Recherches en Histoire Européenne Comparée, EA 4392). Her research interests include Swedish history, Swedish medieval laws, kingship and political culture, especially the history of political representation. She edited in collaboration with Samuel Hayat and Yves Sintomer, La représentation avant le gouvernement représentatif (Rennes, 2020). She has recently published Histoire de Stockholm (Paris, 2022).
Stéphane Péquignot
is Research Professor of History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, and Associate Researcher at the Universidade Nova of Lisboa. His main fields of research are the history of diplomacy, the Crown of Aragon, the history of historiography and archives. He has published a revised version of his PhD (Au nom du roi. Pratique diplomatique et pouvoir durant le règne de Jacques II d’Aragon (1291–1327), Madrid, 2009), coauthored with Jean-Marie Moeglin a compendium on international relations in the Middle Ages (Diplomatie et « relations internationales » au Moyen Âge (Ixe–Xve siècles), Paris, 2017), and (co-) edited various books and journal’s issues on the history of negotiations and the crown of Aragon.
Noëlle-Laetitia Perret
is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and Associate Researcher at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Her research interests include the social, intellectual, and cultural history of late medieval Europe as well as the history of diplomacy. She is the author of Les traductions françaises du « De regimine principum » de Gilles de Rome. Parcours matériel, culturel et intellectuel d’un discours sur l’éducation (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 39) J. Miethke, W. J. Courtenay, J. Catto et J. Verger (éds), (Brill, 2011).
Günter Prinzing
received his Ph.D. from LMU Munich in 1971 and his Habilitation from WWU Münster in 1980. From 1987 until his retirement in April 2009, he was Professor of Byzantine Studies at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz. His research focuses on the history of Byzantium, with a special interest in the relations between Byzantium and its neighbours in South-East and Eastern Europe, and in Byzantine vernacular literature. He is co-editor of Das Lemberger Evangeliar (Wiesbaden, 1998) and edited the Ponemata diaphora of Demetrios Chomatenos (Berlin and New York, 2002 = CFHB 38).
is Professor of Modern History and General Swiss History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is particularly interested in Italian social, economic and cultural history.
Hans-Joachim Schmidt
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History and General Swiss History at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His main areas of expertise are urban history, church history and the history of political concepts.
Tom Stevenson
teaches Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He is primarily a historian of the late Roman Republic and Augustan Age, though he has published on Greek and Roman art and has developing research interests in films and historical novels set in ancient Greece and Rome. Publications include edited books on Cicero’s Philippics (Auckland 2008) and The Statue of Zeus at Olympia (Newcastle, UK, 2011), along with a monograph on Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic (London and New York, 2015).
Karl Ubl
received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg (1999), and is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cologne. His publications include the critical edition of the Speculum virtutum by Engelbert of Admont (2004) and a monograph on the Frankish Lex Salica (2017).
Steven J. Williams
is Professor of History at New Mexico Highlands University. In 2003 the University of Michigan Press published his The Secret of Secrets. The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages.