Steven Vanderputten is Professor of Medieval History at Ghent University. He is the author of Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages: Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform andMonastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900 1100, both from Cornell, and the editor of Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication and coeditor of Ecclesia in medio nationis.