Graham Barrett is Assistant Professor of Early Medieval European History at Durham University, and studies Latin literacy, language, and literature in early medieval Iberia. He is a keen editor and translator of texts from Late Antiquity, including in the field of Christian–Muslim relations.Louise J. Wilkinson is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln, specializing in women and their written records in thirteenth-century England. She is a former general editor of the Pipe Roll Society, and now chairs its council, while co-editing the Lives of Royal Women series.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPart 1. Texts and TranslationsChapter 1. "The Second Council of Toledo (527/531): Introduction and Annotated Translation" by Graham BarrettChapter 2. "Early Charters of Vaudey Abbey" by Hannah BostonChapter 3. "The Memoria Beati Ysidori: Introduction, Translation, and Notes" by Kenneth Baxter WolfChapter 4. "Jewish Moneylending in Medieval Bologna: New Early Documentary Evidence From Surviving Loan Registers and the 1416 condotta" by Elena LolliPart 2. Critiques and CommentariesChapter 5. "The Fall and Restoration of the Piast Monarchy: Crisis as Narrative in the Gesta principum Polonorum" by Franciszek DąbrowskiChapter 6. "Ira regis and Ira episcopi in Papal Writs From Toledo in the Late Twelfth Century (Act E.7.C.2.7. and Act X.2.A.2.2.)" by Kyle C. LincolnChapter 7. "An Attempt at a Medieval Christian Hermetism: Jesus, Mercury, and Hermes Trismegistus in Alfonso X’s Setenario" by Juan Udaondo AlegreChapter 8. "Meeting the Challenges Head-On: Confronting Obstacles to Effective Administration of Justice in an Early Sixteenth-Century Diocese" by Martin RobertsPart 3. ReflectionsChapter 9. "Reflecting on Ulrich" by Barbara H. Rosenwein