Kristen B. Neuschel is Professor of History emerita and former Director of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, USA. Her publications include Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600 (2020).

Ann Marie Rasmussen is Professor of German emerita at Duke University, USA. Her book Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds (2021) was awarded Honorable Mention by the 2022 German Studies Association/DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service) Book Prize committee.