Brian A. Pavlac is the Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of History at King¿s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History and the translator of Balderich¿s Warrior Bishop of the Twelfth Century: The Deeds of Albero of Trier.