Katherine L. Jansen is working on a book manuscript entitled, The Practice of Peace in Late Medieval Italy which looks at the process of dispute settlement in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Florence, a period well known for violence and civil discord. Working with notarial documents in the state archives of Florence, she is examining how peace instruments—a complement to the legal system--functioned in medieval urban society. Used for everything from bringing an end to neighborhood quarrels to restoring full citizenship to judicial exiles, the book will shed light on how these legal remedies were part of the popular government’s efforts to establish their vision of the “bene commune,” one based firmly on communal peace and security. Professor Jansen has recently published Charisma and Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching, 1200-1500 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), co-edited with Miri Rubin and her Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), co-edited with Joanna Drell and Frances Andrews, has just been released in paperback. She is also the author of The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).