List of Contributors

**William M. Aird** lectures in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests concern the eleventh and twelfth centuries in Western Europe, with a focus on the 'Norman diaspora' in the British Isles, Northern France and Southern Italy. His more recent publications include: *Duke Robert II, 'Curthose' of Normandy, c.1051-1134* (Boydell & Brewer 2008) and *The Tears of Bishop Gundulf: Gender, Religion, and Emotion in the Late Eleventh Century*, in Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds., *Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages*, (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), 62-84.

**Yaakov Ariel** is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago, Yaakov Ariel's research focuses on Christian-Jewish relations, the Jewish reaction to modernity and postmodernity, and New Religious Movements. Ariel has published numerous articles and three books on these and other subjects. One of his books, *Evangelizing the Chosen People* (University of North Carolina Press 2000), was awarded the Albert C. Outler prize by the American Society of Church History. Ariel's latest book is *An Unusual Relationship* (New York University Press 2013). Ariel teaches Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

**Kristin M.S. Bezio** is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Her background is in technical theater and literature, and her research interests include early modern drama, leadership studies, and game studies. Recent publications include *Subject, Servant, & Sovereign: Servant Leadership and Elizabethan Government in Shakespeare's 'King John*' in *Leadership and Elizabethan Culture*, '*Staged Magic: Performing Witchcraft in Macbeth'* in *William Shakespeare's Macbeth*, and *Friends & Rivals: Loyalty, Ethics, and Leadership in* '*Dragon Age II*' in *Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence*.

**Andrew Brown** has been a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, Palmerston North (NZ) since 2010. Previously he was at Edinburgh University, and before that at Oxford as a Fellow at Keble College. His books include: *Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: the Diocese of Salisbury 1250-1550* (OUP, 1995); *Church and Society in England 1000-1500* (Palgrave, 2003); and *Civic Ceremony and Religion in Bruges 1300-1520* (CUP, 2011).

**Michael Clanchy** is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He taught previously at the Univesity of Glasgow. He is the author of *Abelard - A Medieval Life* (Blackwell 1997) and *From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307* (third edition, John Wiley & Sons 2012).

**Gary Dickson** was born in California. He received his A.B. at Stanford; his M.A. at Yale; and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. Employed as a medievalist in Edinburgh's history department for most of his academic career, he retired as a Reader and an Honorary Fellow. Medieval religious movements, revivalism, became the focus of his intellectual interest, as evidenced in his collected studies *Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West: Revivals, crusades, saints* (Ashgate 2000) and *The Children's Crusade: Medieval History; Modern Mythistory* (Palgrave-MacMillan 2008, pb 2010). His eight Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion delivered at Oxford University (1996-7) were on the theme of 'Medieval Pentecostalism'. At present he is working on a book based on these lectures.

**George R. Goethals** holds the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Previously at Williams College he served as chair of the Department of Psychology, founding chair of the Program in Leadership Studies, and Provost. With Georgia Sorenson and James MacGregor Burns, he edited the *Encyclopedia of Leadership* (Sage Publications 2004). With Gary McDowell he edited *Lincoln's Legacy of Leadership* (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). With Scott Allison he coauthored *Heroes: What They Do & Why We Need Them* (Oxford University Press 2011) and *Heroic Leadership: An Influence Taxonomy of 100 Exceptional Individuals* (Routledge 2013). Goethals recent scholarship explores presidential leadership and race relations.

**Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner,** Ph.D., is a church historian and a registered nurse. She is Coordinator of Health Professions Counseling and Affiliate Theology Professor at Loyola University Maryland. Her published work has focused on medieval spirituality and religious dietary ethics. Her publications include *Dominican Penitent Women* (Paulist Press 2005), an edition of medieval sources concerning Dominican laywomen, and the article *Writing Religious Rules as an Interactive Process - Dominican Penitent Women and the Making of Their Regula*, published in *Speculum 79* (July 2004). As a registered nurse she is actively involved in urban health promotion through research, teaching, service-learning partnerships, urban school wellness initiatives, and Loyola University Maryland's outreach.

**Peter Iver Kaufman** is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and George Matthews and Virginia Brinkley Modlin Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. His latest books, *Religion around Shakespeare* (authored) and *Leadership and Elizabethan Culture* (edited) appeared in 2013. His previous work on Augustine appeared in *Incorrectly Political: Augustine and Thomas More* (2007) and, since then, in several journals including *History of Political Thought*, *Journal of Late Antiquity*, *Journal of Religious Ethics*, and *Vigiliae Christianae*. He is Editor-in-Chief of *Religions*.

**Brett Whalen** teaches medieval European history at UNC-Chapel Hill. His other works include *Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages* (Harvard University Press 2009) and *The Medieval Papacy* (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). He is currently writing a book about papal sovereignty in the thirteenth century.
