Phillipp R SchofieldSpecialist of rural and economic history, Gerard Beaur is Directeur de Recherches at CNRS and Directeur d'Etudes at EHESS (France). He is also director of the unit of research Centre de Recherches Historiques and Chair of the action COST A35. Phillip Schofield is Professor of Medieval History and Head of the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University. His research interests focus on rural society in England in the high and late middle ages. Jean-Michel Chevet is a French researcher in the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. He is a specialist in the economic history of the countryside, particularly of the development of the English and French economies and of the history of viticulture. Maria-Teresa Perez-Picazo is Professor of Economic History at the University of Murcie (Spain). Her principal work is on agrarian history and she focuses particularly on the subject of water management in the modern period. Read More Read Less