About the Author

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Etienne Gilson (1884-1978), eminent historian of medieval philosophy and theology, was co-founder, with Father Henry Carr, CSB, of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. James K. Farge is Fellow of the Institute and Curator of the Etienne Gilson Collection in the Institute Library; his most recent publication is Religion, Reformation, and Repression in the Reign of Francis I: Documents from the Parlement of Paris, 1515-1547 (2015). William J. Courtenay is Hilldale Professor Emeritus and C.H. Haskins Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he is most recently the author of Rituals for the Dead: Religion and Community in the Medieval University of Paris (2019).