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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Our ContributorsMelanie Brunner is Project Editor for the International Medieval Bibliography (University of Leeds). She holds an M.A. in History and English from the University of Augsburg (Germany) and received her doctorate from the Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds for her dissertation on Pope John XXII and Franciscan poverty in 2006. Her research focuses on the relationship between the papacy and religious orders, the debates about Franciscan and mendicant poverty in the fourteenth century, as well ason political culture and the process of decision-making at the curia in Avignon.Alberto Cadili was awarded a Ph.D. in Medieval History at University of Milan. At the moment he is researcher at John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna. His research field is Religious Studies in Late Middle Ages, especially the framework of Milan and Lombardy. Now he is working on the council of Basel and the councils of fifteenth century.William J. Courtenay, Ph.D. Harvard (1967), Hilldale and Charles Homer Haskins Professor emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin, is a specialist in medieval intellectual history. He is also a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Historical Society, and the British Academy. His recent books include Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century (1999), Rotuli Parisienses, 2 vols. (2002 (2004), and Ockham and Ockhamism (2008). He is presently completing a third volume of Rotuli Parisienses and preparing a book on the University of Paris in the fourteenth century.Pietro Delcorno is a Ph.D. Student in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen since October 2010. His research activity is part of the NWO Project “Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1420–1620.” Before that, he obtained [End Page 515] a Bachelor (2002) and a Licence (2007) in Theology with summa cum laude from the Faculty of Theology of Emilia Romagna (FTER). He also obtained a Master Degree in Italian Linguistics and Literary Civilizations with Distinction (2009) from the University of Bologna with a dissertation in Medieval History titled “Lazzaro e il ricco epulone da Bernardino da Siena alla Nave dei Folli: l’uso di un testo biblico nella società del XV secolo.” In 2010 he received an annual fellowship from the Centro Studi sui Lombardi, sul credito e sulla banca (Asti) to work on the relationship between rich and poor in fifteenth-century Italian preaching and religious theatre.Matthew Etchemendy is a graduate student at Stanford University, pursuing joint degrees in Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Law (J.D.). He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.Benjamin Hazard, Ph.D. is Louvain 400 Fellow at the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation, at the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin.Stanislav Južnič was born in San Francisco and obtained USA and Slovenian citizenship. He studied history of 18th century physics at the department of history of the University of Ljubljana and finished with a Masters degree in 1984, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1999. He worked in the Vatican Film Library of the Jesuit University Saint Louis, MO, and at the History of Science Department University of Oklahoma, researching simultaneously also at the Institute for Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics at Ljubljana, and at the Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. For more than a decade, he collaborated with Ljubljana Jesuits trying to put in the limelight the achievements of the Ljubljana eighteenth-century Jesuit physicists. Among his recent monographs are Hallerstein, a Chinese Astronomer from Mengeš (2003), History of the Vacuum Research and [End Page 516] Vacuum Techniques (October 2004), History of Kostel: 1500–1900: between two civilisations (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania): SGSI, 2005, translated in 2008), Gabriel Gruber: from Ljubljanian Canal to Jesuit General (May 2006), Professor Plemelj and Comet (2006), Fran Dominko and Slovenian Astronomy (2007), Blaž Kocen and the Beginning of Geography Teaching at Carniola (2007), and Valvasor at Slovene Astronomy (2007). For the international astronomical year 2009 he finished his trilogy about the history of exact sciences in Slovenia which includes Astronomy...