Cathleen A. Fleck is Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has published articles and monographs on the court art of Naples and Avignon and representations of Jerusalem in the crusader era of the Middle Ages (c. 1187-1356).

Elizabeth Lapina is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her main interest is in perceptions and representations-textual and visual-of the crusading movement in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, on which she has published widely.

Richard A. Leson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research and publications focus on the art and architectural patronage of elite French families, with a special emphasis on heraldry. He is currently writing about the life and artistic patronage of Jeanne of Flanders (ca. 1272-1333).

Vardit Ruth Shotten is an architect and archaeologist working in the Archaeological Research Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, whose research and writing focuses on medieval architecture, particularly in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. She is currently leading the research project on 'Atlit Castle and teaches at the University of Haifa.