Katharine J. Lualdi is coeditor of Penitence in the Age of Reformations (Ashgate, 2000) and Handbook for Curates: A Late Medieval Manual of Pastoral Care (The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming). She has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on sixteenth-century French Catholicism. She received her PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and teaches history and religion at the University of Southern Maine.