Lauren Mancia is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College (CUNY), USA. She is a specialist in 11th- and 12th-century medieval European Christianity and the author of Struggling Toward God: Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery (2023) and Emotional Monasticism: Affective Devotion at the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (2019).