BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAM Deputy Librarian, the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Republic of Ireland DEREK FEWSTER Researcher in the Department of History, the University of Helsinki, Finland GU?MUNDUR HALFDANARSON Professor of History, the University of Iceland MICHEL MARGUE Professor of History at the University of Luxembourg MAURO MORETTI Professor in the Department of Human Sciences, Siena Foreign University, Italy JAN EIVIND MYHRE Professor of Modern History, the University of Oslo, Norway JOHANNES NIEHOFF-PANAGIOTIDIS Professor of Byzantine Studies, the Free University Berlin, Germany PIT PEPORTE Researcher in the Department of History, the University of Luxembourg ILARIA PORCIANI Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Bologna, Italy PETER RAEDTS Professor of Medieval History, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands FRANTI EK MAHEL Vice-director, the Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, the Czech Republic MARKO UICA Lecturer in the Department of History, the University of Belgrade, Serbia JO TOLLEBEEK Professor of Cultural History, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium HERWIG WOLFRAM Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna, Austria