The Editors: Marilyn Stone received her M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from New York University where she was awarded a Penfield fellowship. Dr. Stone, an ATA accredited translator, has published A Handbook of Courtroom Terms in Spanish and English. Marriage and Friendship in Medieval Spain (Peter Lang, 1990), and articles about Las Siete Partidas, the medieval legal code of Alfonso X el Sabio. She teaches Spanish at the City University of New York and the theory and practice of translation at New York University. Carmen Benito-Vessels is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Maryland, College Park. A graduate of the universities of Salamanca, Lisbon, and California-Santa Barbara, she is the author of Juan Manuel: Escritura y recreacion de la historia, and the coeditor of A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale and Horizontes: Cultura y Literatura, third edition. Her published articles deal with the themes of medieval historiography and the interaction of medieval literary genres.