Julia Barrow has been Professor of Medieval Studies and Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds since November 2012. Before this, she taught for many years at the University of Nottingham. She is a specialist in the institutional history of the church in western Europe in the earlier and high middle ages; her research interests concentrate on bishops and episcopal administration, charters and the medieval clergy, but also range across forgeries and their relationship to the writing of history, change and continuity in ecclesiastical institutions across the ten...