John McNeill teaches at Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education and is Honorary Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, for whom he has edited and contributed to volumes on Anjou, King's Lynn and the Fens, the medieval cloister, and English medieval chantries. He was instrumental in establishing the BAA's International Romanesque Conference Series and has a particular interest in the design of medieval monastic precincts.

Richard Plant has taught at a number of institutions and worked for many years at Christie's Education in London, where he was deputy academic director. His research interests lie in the buildings of the Anglo-Norman realm and the Holy Roman Empire, in particular in architectural iconography. He is Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association, and in addition to this volume has co-edited Romanesque and the Past (2013), Romanesque Patrons and Processes (2018), and Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage (2020).