Notes on the Editors
Cornel Zwierlein
is teaching early modern history since 2001. He has been Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG, 2018–2023), w1-prof. from 2008 to 2017 at Bochum University (additional Habilitations-Lehrbefugnis 2011, continuing) and research assistant from 2001 to 2008 at LMU Munich where he earned his PhD in 2003 from the LMU and the CESR Tours. After several Fellowships and research stays abroad (Harvard History Department, Cambridge University, CRASSH and Wolfson College), he co-initiated and co-convened the Yale-Humboldt travel-grant network at the Macmillan Center (Yale University, 2018–2023), funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation’s Anneliese-Maier-Award. Monographs: Discorso and Lex Dei. Die Entstehung neuer Denkrahmen im 16. Jahrhundert und die Wahrnehmung der französischen Religionskriege in Italien und Deutschland (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2006); The Political Thought of the French League and Rome, 1585–1589. De justa populi gallici ab Henrico tertio defectione and De justa Henrici tertii abdicatione (Jean Boucher, 1589) (Droz: 2016); Imperial Unknowns. The French and the British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Politische Theorie und Herrschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit (utb 5439, 2020); Prometheus Tamed. Fire, Security and Modernities, 1400 to 1900 (Brill: 2021, revised and enlarged English version of the Habilitation); three book projects contracted, probably forthcoming 2025: Western Libraries and Reading in the Mediterranean and India, c. 1600–1750; The European Press in the Mediterranean and India, c. 1650–1800; The Emerging Western World Canon in the Mediterranean and India, c. 1750–1800.
Daniel Lee
is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a specialist in political theory, the history of political thought, and jurisprudence. He is the author of Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought (Oxford, 2016), The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations (Oxford, 2021), and Divisions of Law: Legal Science in the Juris Universi Distributio of Jean Bodin (Oxford, forthcoming). Lee’s research concerns the reception of Roman and canon law in later medieval and early modern political thought and their influence on modern doctrines of statehood, sovereignty, and rights, especially in the legal and political thought of Jean Bodin and Hugo Grotius. Prior to his arrival at Berkeley, Lee taught political theory at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. He holds degrees Columbia, Oxford, and Princeton.