Javier Arce
is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Roman Archaeology at the Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3 in France. Among the various positions he has held is the outstanding post of director of the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueologia in Rome and Research Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid. He was one of the coordinators of the European Science Foundation project “The Transformation of the Roman World.” The author of numerous groundbreaking titles about Late Antique history in the Mediterranean has recently published a book on Alaric (Marcial Pons, 2018).
María Asenjo González
is full Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Medieval History, a post she has held since 2007. Her research focuses on the urban history of Castile from the economic, political, social, and cultural points of view, on which she has published books, articles, and book chapters as both author and coordinator. Since 2001 she has directed national and international projects which have involved many scholars. Her major publications include: Oligarchy and Patronage in Late Medieval Spanish Urban Society (Turnhout, 2009); Urban Elites and Aristocratic Behaviour in the Spanish Kingdoms at the end of the Middle Ages (Turnhout, 2013).
Antonio Irigoyen López
is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Murcia. He has been a member of the Seminar Family and Power Elite since 1992 and refmur (International Network for Family Studies) since its founding in 2010. He specializes in the social history of the Church and clergy in the Spanish monarchy during the early modern period. His analytical approach studies the clergy, family relationships, and social change from a comparative perspective. He also analyzes the ecclesiastical regulation of marriage, baptism, and godparenthood. He has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Lisbon (Portugal), Bordeaux (France), Córdoba (Argentina), and Zacatecas (Mexico).
Alberto León Muñoz
is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Córdoba (B.A. in History at the University of Granada (1993); Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Córdoba (2001)). His main research focuses on Late Antique and Medieval
Matthias Maser
studied Medieval History and Islamic Studies at the universities of Bamberg, Alexandria (Egypt), and Tübingen. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with a thesis on the Latin “Historia Arabum” of the Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada. From 2008 to 2011 he participated in a state-funded, interdisciplinary project on “Mozarabic” cultural identity in medieval Iberia. Currently he holds the position of Senior Lecturer for Medieval History at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests center, among other things, on Christian-Muslim relations and cross-cultural exchange in medieval Spain.
Sabine Panzram
is Professor of Ancient History at Hamburg University. She obtained her Ph.D. at Münster University after completing her studies in Freiburg and Barcelona. She has been a Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and has held a Marie Curie Senior Fellowship at the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques—Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. Possessing a distinguished track record of research in a range of areas, she focuses in particular on urban history on the Iberian Peninsula. She is currently preparing a study on “Christendom without Church. The genesis of an institution in the dioecesis Hispaniarum (4th to 7th centuries).” She is the coordinator of Toletum, an interdisciplinary network for young researchers studying the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity. The German Archaeological Institute counts her among its corresponding members.
Gisela Ripoll
is Professor of Archaeology and Associate Research at the eraaub/Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica at the Universidad de Barcelona. Gaining doctorates at the University of Barcelona and the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris iv), she is widely known for her publications on the transformation of late Roman Spain. She has been Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris iv), the École Normale Supérieure, and the École
Torsten dos Santos Arnold
is a doctoral researcher at the Europa-Universität Viadrina/Frankfurt upon the Oder in the research project “The Globalized Periphery: Atlantic Commerce, Socioeconomic and Cultural Change in Central Europe (1680–1850)”. He carried out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the socio-economic relations between Central Europe and the Atlantic World via French and Portuguese seaports during the 18th century. In 2013, his study on Indo-Portuguese copper trade during the first half of the 16th century was awarded the research prize of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (aphes).
Isabel Toral-Niehoff
studied History, Islamic and Arabic Studies in Tübingen. She gained her Ph.D. in 1997 with a work on Greek-Arabic Magic: Kitāb Ǧiranīs. Die arabische Übersetzung der ersten Kyranis des Hermes Trismegistos und die griechischen Parallelen. (2004). Her Habilitation was in 2008 at the Free University Berlin, published as Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext (Brill: 2014). Since 1997 she has held various research positions and fellowships in Freiburg, Berlin, London, and Göttingen. Her main publishing and research fields are: Arabia and the Near East in Late Antiquity; Arabic Literature; Al-Andalus. Since 2016 she has been scientific coordinator at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
Fernando Valdés Fernández
is Professor of Islamic Archaeology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has also taught at the universities of Bamberg, Berlin, and the Sorbonne iv. For more than 40 years he has been working in Badajoz, excavating the Alcazaba and the old Plaza de Toros; he has also carried out fieldwork in Mérida, Trujillo, Cáceres, Villanueva del Fresno, Higuera la Real, Toledo, and Raqqa (Syria). He is the author of more than one hundred scientific works, including books and articles about Andalucian archaeology in particular and Islamic archaeology in general. The German Archaeological Institute counts him among its corresponding members.
Klaus Weber
obtained his Ph.D. at Universität Hamburg in 2001. He has been Research Fellow at nui Galway (2002–2003), at The Rothschild Archive, London (2004–2009), and at the Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden, Hamburg (2010–2011). He now holds a professorship for Comparative Economic and Social History of Europe at the Europa-Universität Viadrina/Frankfurt upon the Oder. His current research project deals with the integration of Central European proto-industrial regions in the Atlantic economy: “The Globalized Periphery (1680–1850).” Publications: Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel 1680–1830: Unternehmen und Familien in Hamburg, Cádiz und Bordeaux (2004); Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei (2008); edited with F. Hatje, Überseehandel und Handelsmetropolen: Europa und Asien, 17.–20. Jahrhundert (2008).