Bruno Boute, PhD in History (2003), Catholic University of Leuven, is a researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte, Germany. He publishes on religious history, history of the papacy, and the history of universities in Early Modern EuropeThomas Småberg, PhD in History, (2004), Göteborg University, is Lecturer in History and History Teaching at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published on social networks and friendship in the Middle Ages, and is currently conducting research on Swedish medieval ritual and gender.