Salome and the Kin of Jesus

Constant J. Mews is Professor Emeritus in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia, where he was until his retirement Director of the Centre for Religious Studies. His interests focus around theology and exegesis in the patristic and scholastic periods, and his publications, which range widely in the history of medieval thought and culture, include The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France (2nd ed., 2008) and Abelard and Heloise (2005). He is currently completing editions of the De XII abusiuis saeculi for Scriptores Celtigenae in the Corpus Christianorum, and an edition and translation of the letters of Hugh Metel.

Antti Ijas earned his doctorate in Latin Language and Roman Literature at the University of Helsinki. His main fields of interest are Classical and Medieval philology, with a particular focus on Medieval Latin, manuscript studies, and book history. His research revolves around pragmatic and technical literature and language, particularly questions related to the history and semantics of technical terminology and the transmission of knowledge and technique through text and image. He publishes in English, German, and Finnish. He is currently a researcher with the University of Helsinki, working on a new edition, translation, and commentary of Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis.