John W. Baldwin (1929-2015) was the Charles Homer Haskins Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. He was the author of numerous books including The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages, Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances of Jean Renart and Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230, and Paris, 1200. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected to numerous academies including the Academie des inscriptions et belles lettres, and decorated by the French Government with the Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, among other honors. William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.