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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Constance H. Berman is Professor of History at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, where she has taught for twenty years. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Medieval Religion: New Approaches (Routledge, 2005); Th e Cistercian Evolution: Th e Invention of a Religious Order in Twelft h-Century Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); and Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians (American Philosophical Society, 1986). She is working on land, water, mills, and villages in southern France as part of a new project, Women’s Work in the European Economic Expansion, 1000–1350 AD.
Scott G. Bruce is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He traces his academic roots to the Department of History at York University, where he studied as an undergraduate under Rich Hoff mann. His research focuses on the abbey of Cluny from the tenth through the twelft h centuries. He is the author of Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: Th e Cluniac Tradition, c. 900–1200 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), a topic suggested to him by Rich. He is currently writing a study of western perceptions of Islam in Cluniac hagiography.
Anton Ervynck coordinates a team of natural scientists at the Flemish Heritage Institute (Belgium). His main research area is the analysis of animal remains from premodern Flemish sites. His primary interests are the study of social diff erentiation through consumption patterns, and the history of natural and cultural environments. His recent published work (many co-authored and co-edited) includes: “Beyond Affl uence: Th e Zooarchaeology of Luxury,” World Archaeology 34 (2003), 428–41; “Orant, pugnant, laborant: Th e Diet of the Th ree Orders in the Feudal Society of Medieval North-Western Europe,” in Behaviour Behind Bones: Th e Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity, ed. S. J. O’Day, W. Van Neer and A. Ervynck (Oxbow Books, 2004); and Pigs and Humans: 10,000 Years of Interaction (Oxford University Press, 2007).
William Chester Jordan is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department of Princeton University. He is the author of many books and articles, most recently A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Th irteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2009). His current research focuses on English-French relations in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Maryanne Kowaleski is Joseph Fitzpatrick S.J. Distinguished Professor and Director of Medieval Studies at Fordham University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on women and work, the urban family, port towns, and overseas and inland trade in medieval England, including Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Gendering the Master Narrative (Cornell University Press, 2003); and Medieval Towns: A Reader (Broadview Press, 2006).
Pierre Claude Reynard is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, with an interest in the social, economic, and environmental history of early modern and modern France and Europe. His recent work has focussed on preindustrial manufacturing, its techniques, strategies, and relations with the state, as well as urban expansion and entrepreneurship. He also has a broad interest in environmental history ranging from regulations and public works to the place of rivers in the lives of communities.
Paolo Squatriti teaches medieval European history at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in early medieval Italian history. Most recently he was the editor of the collection Natures Past: Th e Environment in Human History (University of Michigan Press, 2007) and the translator of Th e Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (Catholic University of America Press, 2007). He likes both the tree and the nut of Castanea sativa and is now working on the early medieval history of the chestnut in Europe.
Richard W. Unger, a fellow student in the Yale doctoral program with Richard Hoff mann, is a professor in the Department of History of the University of British Columbia. He teaches medieval and economic history and has published on the history of technology, specifi cally on the evolution of European ship design from the classical world through to the era of steam and on the development of the Dutch and European brewing industries. His most recent books are Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) and Pictures of Power: Ships on Maps in Renaissance Europe (forthcoming).
Petra J. E. M. van Dam holds the chair for water history at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She specializes in the pre-industrial environmental history of northwestern Europe, in particular on landscape transformations in aquatic and terrestrial eco-systems. A recent example of this research (co-authored with Milja van Tielhof) is: “Losing Land, Gaining Water: Ecological and Financial Aspects of Regional Water Management in Rijnland, 1200–1800,” Water Management, Communities and Environment: Th e Low Countries in Comparative Perspective, c.1000–c.1800, Jaarboek voor Ecologische Geschiedenis 2005/2006 10 (2006), 63–94. Professor van Dam is currently fi nishing a monograph on the history of humans and animals in the coastal sand dunes of Holland.
Wim Van Neer is the head of the Bioarchaeology Unit at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium, and teaches archaeozoology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He conducts faunal analysis in Europe, the Near East and Africa and has a strong interest in the study of fi sh remains from archaeological sites. His recent publications (some collaborative and co-authored) include: “Evolution of Prehistoric Fishing in the Nile Valley,” Journal of African Archaeology 2 (2004), 251–69; “Th e Emergence of Fishing Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Survey of Evidence from Pre- and Protohistoric Periods,” Paléorient 31 (2005), 131–57; and “Salted Fish Products from the Coptic Monastery at Bawit, Egypt: Evidence from the Bones and Texts,” in Th e Role of Fish in Ancient Times, ed. H. Hüster Plogmann (Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2007), pp. 147–59.
Verena Winiwarter is professor of Environmental History at AlpenAdria University in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her degrees are in technical chemistry, history, and human ecology. Together with Martin Knoll, she has published the fi rst German textbook for environmental history: Umweltgeschichte: Eine Einführung (Böhlau UTB, 2007). Her research interests include the history of soils and conceptual issues in doing and teaching environmental history.
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