The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (4 volume set)
Edited by Robert E. Bjork
Author Information
Robert E. Bjork is Foundation Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University. He was General Editor of Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation from 1984 to 1994; Co-Editor of Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture from 1992 to 2001, and has been Director and General Editor of Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (ACMRS) and General Editor of Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance since 1996. He's been a Visiting Fellow at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor of English at UCLA. His published work includes translations of seven books on Old English Poetry and translations of seven modern Swedish novels. He was President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxons 2002-3, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the English Association and and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Contributors:
GENERAL EDITOR
Robert E. Bjork
Foundation Professor of English and Director
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State University
ADVISORY BOARD
Giles Constable, FBA, FMA
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
Helen Cooper, FBA
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English
Magdalene College
University of Cambridge
R. R. Davies, FBA [deceased]
Former Chichele Chair of Medieval History
All Souls College
University of Oxford
Roberta Frank, FMAA
Marie Borroff Professor of English
University of Yale
Professor Edward James
Professor of History
University College Dublin
EDITORIAL BOARD
SCANDINAVIA
Theodore M. Andersson
Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies
Stanford University
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
János M. Bak
Professor Emeritus
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
and
Central European University, Budapest
FRANCE
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, FMAA
Professor Emerita of History
Graduate School and Brooklyn College
CUNY
ITALY, SICILY, AND LATIN GREECE
Gene Brucker, FMAA, FBA
Shepard Professor Emeritus of History
University of California, Berkeley
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND WALES
R. R. Davies
Advisory Board. See above.
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY
Stephan R. Epstein [deceased]
Formerly Professor of Economic History
London School of Economics and Political Science
MUSIC AND THE LITURGY
Margot E. Fassler
Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History
Yale University
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Michael S. Flier
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
Harvard University
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Paul H. Freedman, FMAA
Department of History
Yale University
ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Simon Gaunt
Professor of French
King's College, London
ENGLAND
John B. Gillingham, FBA
Emeritus Professor of History
London School of Economics and Political Science
LAW
Richard H. Helmholz, FMAA
Professor of Law
University of Chicago
ARCHAEOLOGY
John Hines
Professor, School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
C. Stephen Jaeger, FMAA
Gutgsell Professor (Emeritus)
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Herbert L. Kessler, FMAA, FAAAS
University of Chicago
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Felice Lifshitz
Professor of History
Florida International University
SCIENCE
David C. Lindberg, FMAA
Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science
University of Wisconsin
TECHNOLOGY
Pamela O. Long
independent historian
PHILOSOPHY
David Luscombe, FBA
Emeritus Research Professor of Mediaeval History
University of Sheffield
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
Joseph H. Lynch, FMAA [deceased]
Formerly Distinguished University Professor and Joe R. Engle Designated Professor of the History of Christianity
Ohio State University
JUDAICA
Ivan G. Marcus
Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History and of Religious Studies
Yale University
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Steven P. Marrone
Professor of History
Tufts University
ISLAM
Ian Netton
Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
LOW COUNTRIES
David Nicholas
Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor Emeritus of History
Clemson University
SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES
Huw Pryce
Professor of History
University of Wales (Bangor)
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Timothy Reuter [deceased]
Formerly Professor of Medieval History
Southampton University
MEDICINE
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, FMAA
Curators' Professor of English Emerita
University of Missouri
Kansas City
MEDIEVAL LATIN
Jan Ziolkowski, FMAA
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Harvard University
There are also c.800 contributors, details available on request.