On the Shoulders of Giants

David F. Appleby, Tutor at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, is a scholar of medieval monasticism and spirituality. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including "American Benedictine Review" (1995), "Mediaeval Studies" (1998), "Fides Quaerens Intellectum" (2003), "Traditio" (2005), and "The St. John's Review" (2013). He is also the author of a chapter on the history of the body and the role of imagination in spiritual life in "Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Middle Ages," ed. John J. Contreni and Santa Casciani (2002).

Teresa Olsen Pierre, an independent scholar residing in Toronto, studies marriage and the history of the body. Her essay, "Marriage, Body and Sacrament in the Age of Hugh of St. Victor," appeared in "Christian Marriage: A Historical Study," ed. Glenn W. Olsen (2001).