Larissa Juliet Taylor (Ph.D. Brown University, 1990; MA, Brown University, 1982; A.L.B., Harvard University, 1981) is Professor of History at Colby College, where she has taught since 1994. She is also affiliated with the Religious Studies and French Departments. Her first book, Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval  and Reformation France (Oxford University Press, 1992; rept. University of Toronto RSART Series 2002) won the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1996.  Since then her books have included [here I’m listing them chronologically] Heresy and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Paris (Brill, 1999); Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Europe (ed.) (Brill, 2001, 2003); The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc (Yale, 2009); The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (ed.) (Brill, 2009); Giovanna d’Arco e la Guerra dei Cent’ Anni (Bruno Mondadori, 2010 [trans. OfVirgin Warrior]). She has a forthcoming Sourcebook of the West, vol. I (Prentice Hall, 2010).  Her current research includes two new book projects: Joan of Arc, the Church and the Papacy, 1429-1920 and Avignon at the Time of the Plague.  Professor Taylor is currently the Vice President and President-Elect of the American Catholic Historical Association.  She lives in Waterville, Maine.