About the Authors

Lynn Hunt (PhD., Stanford University) is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Inventing Human Rights, Measuring Time, Making History, and The Book that Changed Europe.

Thomas R. Martin (PhD., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O'Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and was one of the originators of Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/).

Barbara H. Rosenwein (PhD., University of Chicago) is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Utrecht (Netherlands), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Oxford (Trinity College, England). She is the author or editor of many books, including A Short History of the Middle Ages and the very recent Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotion, 600—1700.

Bonnie G. Smith (PhD., University of Rochester) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of several books including Ladies of the Leisure Class; The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice; and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Currently, she is studying the globalization of European culture and society since the seventeenth century.