Sharon Farmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours, also from Cornell. Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago, and editor of the Cornell series "Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past." Notable among her other books are To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 and Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe, both from Cornell. She is also the editor of the Cornell University Press book Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.

A common feature of these studies is the full and helpful citation of primary sources combined with an extensive acquaintance with relevant scholarly work. They merit the careful attention of those interested in their subjects, and they inspire confidence in the judicious use of the approach that they adopt.- H.E.J. Cowdrey (Oxford. English Historical Review) Its introduction and ten essays are well written and engage with wide-ranging and serious issues.... Their authors succeed in asking innovative questions and suggesting new approaches with a clear sense of the demands and limitations posed by the documentary remains that sustain their inquiries.- Miri Rubin, University of London (Speculum) The volume's essays are important, original contributions.- Robert C. Figueira, Lander University (History)

Sharon Farmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours, also from Cornell. Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago, and editor of the Cornell series "Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past." Notable among her other books are To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 and Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe, both from Cornell. She is also the editor of the Cornell University Press book Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.

A common feature of these studies is the full and helpful citation of primary sources combined with an extensive acquaintance with relevant scholarly work. They merit the careful attention of those interested in their subjects, and they inspire confidence in the judicious use of the approach that they adopt.- H.E.J. Cowdrey (Oxford. English Historical Review) Its introduction and ten essays are well written and engage with wide-ranging and serious issues.... Their authors succeed in asking innovative questions and suggesting new approaches with a clear sense of the demands and limitations posed by the documentary remains that sustain their inquiries.- Miri Rubin, University of London (Speculum) The volume's essays are important, original contributions.- Robert C. Figueira, Lander University (History)

Sharon Farmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours, also from Cornell. Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago, and editor of the Cornell series "Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past." Notable among her other books are To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 and Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe, both from Cornell. She is also the editor of the Cornell University Press book Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.

A common feature of these studies is the full and helpful citation of primary sources combined with an extensive acquaintance with relevant scholarly work. They merit the careful attention of those interested in their subjects, and they inspire confidence in the judicious use of the approach that they adopt.- H.E.J. Cowdrey (Oxford. English Historical Review) Its introduction and ten essays are well written and engage with wide-ranging and serious issues.... Their authors succeed in asking innovative questions and suggesting new approaches with a clear sense of the demands and limitations posed by the documentary remains that sustain their inquiries.- Miri Rubin, University of London (Speculum) The volume's essays are important, original contributions.- Robert C. Figueira, Lander University (History)