David Defries received his doctorate from The Ohio State University and a Licence in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto and taught at the University of Tennessee before joining the Department of History at Kansas State University, where he is currently Associate Professor. His essays have appeared in Early Medieval Europe, Hagiographica, History Compass, and Mediaeval Studies, among other journals, as well as in recent collections on textual transmission and on hagiography and the history of Latin Christendom. He is currently at work on a history of Flanders and the world of the North Atlantic, from 864 to 1127.