Notes on the Contributors
Ovanes Akopyan
is a research fellow in the project NOSCEMUS: Latin and Early Modern Scientific Literature supported by the ERC advanced grant (since 2017). After receiving his Candidate of Sciences (PhD degree) in Medieval and Early Modern History from Moscow State University, he earned a PhD in Renaissance Studies at the University of Warwick with a thesis on Controversies on Astrology in Renaissance Italy (forthcoming 2020). Akopyan’s research interests are in intellectual history of the Renaissance, and early modern astrology.
Volker Bauer
studied history and German at the University of Bielefeld and received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 1993. Since 2006 he has been employed by the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. His main research interests are: history of the early modern court society, media history, history of genealogy, cultural history of dynastic rule. He is the author of Die höfische Gesellschaft in Deutschland von der Mitte des 17. bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts. Versuch einer Typologie (1993); Hofökonomie. Der Diskurs über den Fürstenhof in Zeremonialwissenschaft, Hausväterliteratur und Kameralismus (1997); Repertorium territorialer Amtskalender und Amtshandbücher im Alten Reich. Adreß-, Hof-, Staatskalender und Staatshandbücher des 18. Jahrhunderts, 4 vols. (1997–2005) and of Wurzel, Stamm, Krone: Fürstliche Genealogie in frühneuzeitlichen Druckwerken (2013).
Piotr Chmiel
is an independent scholar holding a PhD in history from the University of Warsaw since 2017. He authored a dissertation on ‘Antemurale Christianitatis?’ Venetian Diplomacy towards Ottoman Otherness and Expansion (1573–1645). He has dedicated many years to unfolding the history of the Theatine mission in Georgia in the seventeenth century and the cultural and memorial aspects of national dispute in Istria. His research interests involve: imaginative geographies; ethnic, religious and cultural identities in the Early Modern Period; national and memory discourse in Italy and Central Europe; early modern diplomacy.
Stefan Ehrenpreis
is Professor of Modern History at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on the history of the Holy Roman Empire and the history of the Reformation, including the history of education. His current research is dedicated to the relations between Central Europe and Great Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among his booksize publications are Kaiserliche Gerichtsbarkeit und Konfessionskonflikt. Der Reichshofrat unter Rudolf II. 1576–1612 (2005); Die Stadt in der frühen Neuzeit (2017; co-authored by Heinz Schilling); British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850). Ambiguous Entanglements (2019; co-edited by Niels Grüne).
Niels Grüne
is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Innsbruck University. His research generally relates to the social, cultural and political history of early modern Central and Western Europe, and particularly to rural societies, patronage and corruption, British-German entanglements and concepts of Europeanness. His major publications include Dorfgesellschaft — Konflikterfahrung — Partizipationskultur. Sozialer Wandel und politische Kommunikation in Landgemeinden der badischen Rheinpfalz, 1720–1850 (2011); Korruption. Historische Annäherungen an eine Grundfigur politischer Kommunikation (2010, co-edited with Simona Slanička) and Rural Commons. Collective Use of Resources in the European Agrarian Economy (2016, co-edited with Jonas Hübner and Gerhard Siegl). A forthcoming volume is The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850): Ambiguous Entanglements (co-edited with Stefan Ehrenpreis).
Peter Hanenberg
is Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Director of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) in Lisbon. His research focuses on the literary representation of Europe from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Currently, he is also working on the intersection of Culture Studies and Cognitive Sciences. His publications include Cognitive Culture Studies (2018), A New Visibility. On Culture, Translation and Cognition (ed., 2015), Der literarische Europa-Diskurs. Festschrift für Paul Michael Lützeler zum 70. Geburtstag (co-ed., 2013), Einheit in der Vielfalt? Der Europadiskurs der SchriftstellerInnen seit der Klassik. Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses, Warschau 2010 (co-ed., 2012), Europa. Gestalten. Studien und Essays (2004), Portugal und Deutschland auf dem Weg nach Europa. Portugal e a Alemanha a caminho para a Europa (co-ed., 1995).
Ulrich Heinen
studied at Cologne and Wuppertal Universities. Since 2000, he has been holding the Chair of Applied Design Studies and Art History at the University of Wuppertal, where he was the Head of the School of Art and Design from 2007 to 2018. He also served as the Head of the Baroque Research Committee at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. He has published widely on early modern history of art, its ties to rhetoric, diplomacy, stoicism and religion, as well as to modern design theory.
Ronny Kaiser
is a teacher of Latin and history in Berlin. From 2009 to 2016, he served as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 644 “Transformations of Antiquity” (Humboldt University of Berlin), before joining a fellowship at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Innsbruck, in 2016/17. Besides his teaching activity, he currently works on the historiographical and political discourse in Neo-Latin literature. Together with Patrick Baker, Maike Priesterjahn and Johannes Helmrath he has edited the volume Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance. The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts (2016).
Niall Oddy
is Lecturer in the English Language Centre at New College Durham (UK) and Associate Lecturer at the Open University (UK). His main field of interest is the literature, culture and thought of the French Renaissance, with a particular focus on word histories and questions of geography and identity. He completed his PhD thesis, ‘Europe’ in Renaissance France. The Word, its Uses and Contexts (c. 1540–1620), in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham in 2017.
Katharina N. Piechocki
is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her main area of research and teaching is early modern European literature, with a particular focus on cartography, translation studies, gender studies, opera and theatre. Interdisciplinary in nature, her research and teaching centre on canonical texts alongside untranslated and/or less-studied authors and investigate questions such as the origins and transformations of new disciplines (cartography) and literary forms (opera libretto) across regions, nations and continents. She co-chairs, with Tom Conley, the Cartography Seminar at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center. Her book titled Cartographic Humanism. The Making of Early Modern Europe has recently been published (2019).
Dennis Pulina
is a doctoral student of Latin literature and member of the Collaborative Research Center 948 “Heroes – Heroisations – Heroisms” at the University of Freiburg i.Br. His research focuses on early modern Latin epic poetry.
Marion Romberg
is a member of the research project “Empress and Empire. Ceremony, Media and Rule from 1550 to 1740/45” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna) and a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Vienna. Her fields of research encompass the study of visual culture, history of mentality, cultural history, folk culture, early modern history and the history of piety. Among her publications rank Die Welt im Dienst des Glaubens. Erdteilallegorien in Dorfkirchen auf dem Gebiet des Fürstbistums Augsburg im 18. Jahrhundert (2017) and the edited volume (together with Wolfgang Schmale and Josef Köstlbauer) The Language of Continent Allegories in Baroque Central Europe (2016).
Lucie Storchová
specialises in the late sixteenth-century scholarly communication in East-Central Europe. Currently, she is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy (CAS, Prague) and gives lectures at the Charles University in Prague. In addition to having investigated early modern travel literature and cultural exchanges, she published internationally on Neo-Latin literature in East-Central Europe. She is the author of Bohemian School Humanism and its Editorial Practices (ca. 1550–1610) (2014).
Michael Wintle
studied at Cambridge, Ghent and Hull Universities, and between 2002 and 2019 held the chair of Modern European History at the University of Amsterdam, where he was head of the department of European Studies. Prior to 2002, he was Professor of European History at the University of Hull, UK, where he had taught since 1980. He has published widely on Dutch and European history, including the following recent books: The Image of Europe (2009); European Identity and the Second World War (ed. with Menno Spiering, 2011); The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries (ed. with Hugh Dunthorne, 2013) and Narratives of War. Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe (ed. with Nanci Adler and Remco Ensel, 2019). He is currently working on Eurocentrism and on Europe’s resilient capacity for reinventing itself in a positive light.
Enrico Zucchi
is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Padua, where he obtained his PhD in 2016. He was a visiting junior scholar at the University Sorbonne — Paris IV, and gained the Borsa di alti studi per il barocco, awarded by the Fondazione 1563 of Turin. His main research interests are seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European theatre, early modern cultural networks (journalism and letter writing) and the connection between literature and politics in Italy during the Ancient Régime. Among his latest publication are Il tiranno e il dilettante (2017), on the Italian tragedy in the first decades of the eighteenth century, and the edition of Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni’s La bellezza della volgar poesia (2018).