Edited by Christopher Gerrard, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, and Alejandra Gutiérrez, Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Durham University

Christopher Gerrard is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. His eight books include Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches (2003) and Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset which won the Best Archaeological Book of the Year award in 2014. His fieldwork includes excavations in Spain and the Azores and projects on qanats, natural disasters in the Middle Ages and, most recently, the discovery of mass graves of 17th-century Scottish soldiers under one of the University's libraries.

Alejandra Gutiérrez is a Research Fellow at Durham University. Her interests lie in the study of medieval and later material culture, particularly the movement of goods, trade and exchange, and European contact with Britain in the Middle Ages. She writes about ceramics and other archaeological finds and has authored numerous articles on the subject, including a book, Mediterranean Pottery in Wessex Households and an accompanying web-guide for the identification of medieval and later Spanish pottery (<http://www.dur.ac.uk/spanish.pottery>).

Abby Antrobus, Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, is a senior local government archaeologist
Grenville Astill is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Reading University
James H. Barrett is a medieval archaeologist
Terry B. Barry is Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin
Tom Beaumont James is Professor Emeritus in Archaeology and History at Winchester University
Jelena Bekvalac is Curator of Human Osteology, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London
James Bond is a freelance landscape archaeologist
Peter J. Brown is currently studying for a PhD at Durham University
Niall Brady is founding director of The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd
Jill Campbell is a post-doctoral researcher at Queen's University Belfast
Matthew Champion is a freelance archaeological consultant
Sally Crawford Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Oliver Creighton in Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
Christopher Daniell works for the Ministry of Defence as the Senior Historic Building Advisor
Gareth Dean is a research fellow of the Universities of York and Nottingham
Piers Dixon is an Operations Manager in Survey and Recording at Historic Environment Scotland
Simon A. Draper is Assistant Editor for the Victoria County History in Oxfordshire
Holly Dugan is an Associate Professor of English at the George Washington University
Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of history at the University of Leicester
Richard Fawcett is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews
Glenn Foard is Reader in Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Huddersfield
Michael Fradley is a Research Assistant on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) Project at the University of Oxford
Mark Gardiner is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast
Christopher Gerrard is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Durham University
Louisa Gidney is a freelance faunal remains specialist
Kate Giles is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Archaeology at the University of York
Rebecca Gowland is a senior lecturer in human bioarchaeology, Durham University
C. P. Graves is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Alejandra Gutiérrez is a Research Fellow at Durham University
J. Avelino Gutiérrez-González is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Oviedo University
M. A. Hall is an archaeologist, medievalist, and museum curator based at Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Claire Hanusse is Maître de conférences en histoire et archéologie du Moyen Âge, Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales, Université de Caen Normandie
David A. Hinton is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
Martin Huggon is currently completing his PhD at the University of Sheffield
Michael Huxtable is Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University
Richard Kelleher is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Susan Kilby is a Research Associate at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
Keith D. Lilley is Professor of Historical Geography at Queen's University Belfast
Aleksandra Mcclain is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of York
Maureen Mellor teaches and lectures at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education
Stephen Mileson is a historian specialising in the interdisciplinary study of the medieval landscape
Lisa Moffett is Regional Advisor for Archaeological Science, Historic England
Richard Morris is Professor at Huddesfield University
Ronan O'Donnell is an archaeologist specialising in theoretical approaches
David Parsons is Emeritus Reader in Church Archaeology in the University of Leicester
Bennjamin Penny-Mason is currently a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Aleks Pluskowski is Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Reading
Rebecca Redfern is Curator of Human Osteology, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London
Amanda Richardson is senior lecturer in late medieval history at the University of Chichester
Stephen Rippon is Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Exeter
Charlotte Roberts Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Simon Roffey is Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Winchester
Else Roesdahl is Professor (emerita) of Medieval Archaeology at Aarhus University
Colin Rynne is a senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
John Schofield was an archaeologist at the Museum of London from 1974 to 2008
Bob Silvester was until his recent retirement the Deputy Director of the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
Eleanor R. Standley is Associate Professor of later medieval archaeology in the School of Archaeology, and Assistant Keeper of the medieval archaeology collections in the Ashmolean Museum
Richard Suggett is Senior Investigator at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Emma J. Wells is Associate Lecturer and Programme Director in Parish Church Studies and English Building History at the University of York
Hugh Willmott is a Senior Lecturer in European Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield
Peter Yeoman is now an independent archaeologist and heritage consultant

"The editors have done an exemplary job of knitting this volume together into a cohesive, readable and fluent landmark of scholarship for this field." - Patrick Gleeson, Agricultural History Review

"[The Handbook]...is a major achievement. It is as clear a synthesis of current thinking on later medieval archaeology as one could hope to achieve, and will be of use to all students of the period, whether archaeologists or those in other disciplines who wish for an authoritative guide to interpret and inform future studies." - Andrew Davidson, Archaeologia Cambrensis

"Overall this collection represents an enormous editing project, which will serve as a very useful resource." - Deirdre O'Sullivan, Archaeological Journal

"This is a very fine book, equally valuable to experts as to undergraduates. It will immediately establish itself as a key reference work" - Paul Stamper, Medieval Archaeology