Otto Gecser is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest, and OTKA post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU. He is interested in cultural and religious history and in historical sociology. Jozsef Laszlovszky is Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program of the Central European university. He is guest lecturer at the Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest Balazs Nagy is Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of CEU, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern European History of Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest. A founding member of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN). Marcell Sebok is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University. Katalin Szende is associate professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU. She graduated in history, archaeology and Latin philology, and her area of specialization is medieval towns in the Carpathian Basin, especially their topography, society, demography, literacy, and everyday life.