Emanuel Buttigieg (PhD Cantab) is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Malta. He read history at the Universities of Malta and Cambridge. Key publication includes Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700 (Continuum, 2011); Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798 (Ashgate, 2013) co-edited with Simon Phillips; and The University of Malta: Legacies & Bearings (Malta University Press, 2020) as co-editor and co-author. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Routledge Military Religious Orders series and Associate Editor of the Hospitaller Sources Project sub-series.

Clara Almagro Vidal (PhD University of Granada) is Senior Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History and Historiographical Sciences at UNED (Madrid). Her research focuses on the landscape of lands owned by military orders and on their lordship over Muslims in medieval Iberia. She has authored a monograph titled Medieval Landscapes in the Campo de Calatrava (ed. La Ergástula, 2016), co-edited Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean (Brepols, 2020) with Jessica Tearney-Pearce and Luke Yarbrough, and co-edited Forms of Unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean (CIDEHUS, 2021) with Filomena Barros.