Carolyn Marino Malone is Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA). She specializes in French Romanesque and English Gothic architecture and sculpture. Her most recent book, is Saint-Bénigne de Dijon en l'an mil, "totius Galliae basilicis mirabiliorem" Interprétation politique, liturgique et théologique, Disciplina monastica, 5 (Turnhout, 2009). Clark Maines is Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Kenan Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut (USA).
He specializes in the study of monasticism from architecture in its structural and ritual dimensions to technology and monastic domains. His most recent book, co-written with Sheila Bonde, is Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, Approaches to its Architecture, Archaeology and History, Bibliotheca Victorina, XV (Turnhout, 2003).