Gerhard Lutz is the Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Prior to this he was Curator and Associate Director at the Dom-Museum, Hildesheim (2009 -20). He has taught at the Technische Universität Dresden (2001-08), the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the University of Bern and, since 2021, at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the ICMA, and is co-founder of the biennial conference series Forum Medieval Art. His publications are concerned with medieval sculpture and metalwork; he was co-editor of Christ on the Cross: The Boston Crucifix and the Rise of Monumental Wood Sculpture 970-1200 (2020) and was editor of Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster (2023). John McNeill taught at Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education and was Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, for whom he edited and contributed to volumes on Anjou, King's Lynn and the Fens, the medieval cloister, and English medieval chantries. He was instrumental in establishing the BAA's International Romanesque Conference Series and published widely on medieval architecture and architectural sculpture, particularly that associated with monastic precincts. Richard Plant has taught at a number of institutions and worked for many years at Christie's Education in London, where he was deputy academic director. His research interests lie in the buildings of the Anglo-Norman realm and the Holy Roman Empire, in particular in architectural iconography. He is Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association, and in addition to this volume, he co-edited Romanesque and the Past (2013), Romanesque Patrons and Processes (2018), Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage (2020), and The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque (2021).
