ROBERT I. BURNS, S.J., professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, is past president of the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch, of the Academy of Research Historians on Medieval Spain, and of the American Catholic Historical Association, and is currently coeditor of Viator. A Guggenheim Fellow and an elected fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, his distinctions include the Medieval Academy's Haskins gold medal, seven national book awards, eight honorary doctorates here and abroad, and from Spain the Premi Catalònia of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the Premi de la Crítica "Serra d'Or," and the Soci d'Honor of the Acció Cultural del País Valencià. His major archival books are The Jesuits and the Indian Wars of the Northwest (New Haven 1966), The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass. 1967), Islam under the Crusaders (Princeton 1973), Medieval Colonialism (Princeton 1975), Jaume I i els valencians (Valencia 1981), Muslims, Christians and Jews in Crusader Valencia (Cambridge 1983), and Society and Documentation in Crusader Valencia (Princeton 1985).

ARCHIBALD R. LEWIS, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has had a distinguished academic career here and abroad. An elected fellow both of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Royal Historical Society, his many honors include the Croix de Guerre and recently an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier in France. His ten books include [222] Naval Power and Trade in the Mediterranean (Princeton 1951, 1970) The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society (Austin, Tex. 1965), The Northern Seas (Princeton 1958, 1978), The Islamic World and the West, a.d. 622-1492 (New York 1970), The Sea and Medieval Civilizations (London 1978), and Medieval Society in Southern France and Catalonia (London 1984). The medieval maritime focus of these and of his numerous articles is also reflected in his current editorship of The American Neptune. Catalonia has always been an integral part of his pioneering themes.

ROBERT ALAN MACDONALD, professor of Spanish at the University of Richmond, Virginia, is a foremost authority on Alfonsine law. His Kingship in Medieval Spain: Alfonso X (Ann Arbor [University Microfilms] 1957) was followed by a series of studies in such journals as Speculum and the Anuario de historia del derecho español; he is completing his long-awaited editions of the Espéculo attributed to Alfonso X and the Libra de las tafurerías by Master Roldán, and in collaboration with Antonio Pérez Martín has begun editing the Fuero real and the Siete partidas also attributed to Alfonso. His distinctions include the postdoctoral Albert L. Markham Travel Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, and the rare Distinguished Service Award from the Modern Foreign Language Association of Virginia (1981). Named Laureate of Virginia in Spanish (1977), he is also a collaborator on the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language project headquartered at the University of Wisconsin.

JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN, is professor of history at Fordham University, New York, and director of its Center for Medieval Studies. He is past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, and of the Academy of Research Historians on Medieval Spain. His honors include Spain's Consejero de Honor, Instituto de Estudios Manchegos. Besides his many articles in Speculum, Traditio, the American Historical Review, and other European and American journals, his several books include The Spanish Military Order of Calatrava and Its Affiliates (London 1975), and the now standard A History of Medieval Spain (Ithaca 1975, 1984). His The Cortes of Castile-León, 1188-1350 is ready for press, and his biography of Alfonso X is in preparation.

JAMES F. POWERS, professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, studied under Charles Julian Bishko at the University of Virginia. His interest in the municipal [223] history of the Iberian Peninsula during the Central Middle Ages has led to articles in Traditio (1970), Speculum (1971, 1977), the American Historical Review (1979), and Military Affairs (1981). His several honors include a Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Harvard (1976), and he has been a trustee of the Institute of Christian Iberia. The principal authority on medieval Spanish militias, he has been awarded a grant by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars in coordination with the Comité Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano to complete his book on the Municipal Militias of Reconquest Iberia. More recently he has undertaken the study of military themes and depiction in Mozarabic, Romanesque, and Gothic art.

JILL R. WEBSTER, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto, Canada, is the premier specialist on Examenis and on the Franciscans of the realms of Aragon. Her labors at the juncture of literature, politics, and religion in the realms has won her an entry in the Gran enciclopèdia catalana (XVI, 1983). Besides her books on Examenis (1967, 1982), her books on Spanish anarchism, and her continuous articles and addresses on medieval Peninsular friars, her monumental History of the Franciscans in the Crown of Aragon is nearly finished. Two other books are in press: her collection of archival documents on Gerona's Franciscans (Institut d'Estudis Gironins), and her Per Déu o diners (Tres i Quatre) on parishes and Mendicants in medieval Valencia.