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Jonathan W Spangler Editor

Zita Eva Rohr is a political historian of gender in the late medieval and early modern periods, specialising in the political, cultural, and diplomatic history of France, Aragon-Catalonia, and Naples-Sicily. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an honorary research fellow at Macquarie University in the Department of History and Archaeology. In 2004, she was admitted to the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her contribution to French education and culture.

Jonathan W. Spangler specializes in monarchy, nobility, and dynastic identity in early modern Europe, with particular focus on France and the Duchy of Lorraine. He completed his doctoral studies at Oxford University and is now Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the Senior Editor of The Court Historian, the international journal of court studies, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.