Notes on Contributors
Clarinda Calma
a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, earned her PhD in 2006 (Kraków) and is an independent scholar currently based in London. She has published extensively on the metaphysical prose and poetry of Robert Southwell and John Donne. Her recent research focuses on early modern book culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, particularly the Polish reception of the works of English Catholic polemical writers, including Jesuits such as Edmund Campion (1540–81) and Arthur Lawrence Faunt (1554–91). Notable publications include ‘Communicating Across Cultures: Explicitation in Gaspar Wilkowski’s Translation of Edmund Campion’s Rationes Decem’ (Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2016) and ‘Edmund Campion’s Prague Homilies: The Concionale ex concionibus a R. P. Edmundo Campiano’ in Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580–1789 (Brill, 2019). She also co-edited Publishing Subversive Texts in Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Brill, 2016) with Teresa Bela and Jolanta Rzegocka, where she contributd a chapter titled ‘Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł (1549–1616): Prince, Patron and Printer’.
Earle Havens
is the inaugural Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, and the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at JHU. He earned his PhD in Renaissance Studies and History at Yale University with a dissertation on Elizabethan Catholic print culture. His scholarship focuses on the history of the book during the early modern period (ca. 1450–1750), with special emphasis on the material and textual cultures of Catholic Europe. Earle is currently co-authoring a monograph and accompanying critical edition of two allied manuscript biographies, one of the Elizabethan Catholic earl of Arundel, Philip Howard, and his wife Anne, countess of Arundel, which will appear in the Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval & Early Modern Periods series of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. He is also co-editing a collection of essays, Women of the Book: Material Texts and the Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women, 1450–1800, with the Pennsylvania State University Press. Earle is also co-editor with Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair of the ‘Information Cultures’ monographic series of the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Victor Houliston
is a research professor at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, and professor emeritus of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he taught English for 30 years. He has published extensively in early modern literary and historical studies, notably on the career of Robert Persons, SJ. His monograph Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England appeared in 2007, and he has recently published a critical edition and translation of Persons’s De persecutione Anglicana (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is the lead editor of the PIMS edition of the Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons: vol. 1 (2017), vol. 2 (2024), vol. 3 in preparation. He has a close association with Campion Hall, Oxford, and lives near Cambridge, England.
Gerard Kilroy
is Professor of English Literature at the Ignatianum University in Krakow, Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. Recent publications include Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), an edition from the manuscripts of The Epigrams of Sir John Harington (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), and Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). His edition of Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion was published by OUP in 2022. He contributed ‘Some Terrible Dream: Pole’s Legacy to Harpsfield and Sander’, in James Willoughby (ed.), Reformation Cardinal: Reginald Pole in Sixteenth-Century Italy and England (Oxford: New College, 2023). He is currently working on the vibrancy of late medieval parish fraternities (destroyed by the injunctions against images and the Chantries Act) and the continuities in lay involvement and devotion of Elizabethan recusants.
Arthur F. Marotti
is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University, where he is Director of its Emeritus Academy. He is the author or co-author of five scholarly monographs: John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986), Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995), Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (2005), (with Steven W. May) Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman’s Household Book (2014), and The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England (2021). He has edited or co-edited ten scholarly collections, including (with Ken Jackson) Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives (2011). His current research includes: (with five other scholars) the construction of a database of rare or unique poems found in 16th and 17th century manuscripts and, with Steven W. May, an edition of the poetry of Dr. Richard Andrews.
Robert S. Miola
BA Fordham, PhD University of Rochester, is the Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English and a Lecturer in Classics at Loyola University Maryland. He has edited Ben Jonson, Every Man In His Humour (Revels) and The Case is Altered (Cambridge) and several Shakespeare plays, including Macbeth and Hamlet for Norton. He has written Shakespeare’s Rome (Cambridge, 1983), Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy (Oxford, 1992), Shakespeare and Classical Comedy (Oxford, 1994), and Shakespeare’s Reading (Oxford, 2000). He has also published essays on early modern receptions of Greek and Latin writers—Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides, Lucian, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, Vergil—as well as an edition of Chapman’s Iliad (2017). Another major interest has been early modern Catholicism, on which he has edited an anthology of primary sources (Oxford, 2007) and written articles on Robert Southwell, Jesuit drama, and the Virgin Mary, Mater Dolorosa. He is currently working on an anti-racist edition of Macbeth.
Susannah Brietz Monta
teaches in the Department of English and the Glynn Honors Program at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2005), Teaching Early Modern English Prose (MLA, 2010, co-edited with Margaret Ferguson), and A Catholic Reads The Faerie Queene: Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune (Manchester UP, 2016). A fourth volume, The Lives of St Philip Howard and Anne Howard, Earl and Countess of Arundel, co-edited with Earle Havens and Elizabeth Patton, has been accepted for publication by PIMS. She has published over 35 articles on early modern literature and religion. She is a former editor of Religion and Literature, co-editor of Spenser Studies, and founding co-editor of the book series Catholicisms, ca. 1450–1800. She has served as vice-president and president of the Sixteenth Century Society. Current projects include a five-volume complete works of Robert Southwell for Oxford UP (with Peter Davidson and Emily Ransom), a monograph on Reformation-era prayer, poetry, and repetition, an article on hagiography and early modern English literature, and an article on Elizabeth Grymeston’s uses of Robert Southwell (with Jaime Goodrich).
Mark Rankin
is Professor of English at James Madison University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research focuses on the literature and history of the English Renaissance and Reformation, especially of the Tudor era (1485–1603); and on the history of the book and the history of reading. He is the co-editor of Henry VIII and His Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art (Cambridge, 2009) and a contributing editor of Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521–1642 (Oxford, 2017). He was principal investigator of a major National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations grant on ‘The Independent Works of William Tyndale’ and is completing editions of Tyndale’s The Practyse of Prelates (for CUA Press) and The Bale-Cancellar Controversy (for the Renaissance English Text Society). He has directed or co-directed four National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College and University teachers and is Editor of the journal Reformation. He is currently completing a census of early editions of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments and a study of the early readers of Thomas More’s Confutation of Tyndale.
Alison Shell
is Professor of Early Modern Studies in the English Department of University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work primarily addresses the interface of literature, history and religion in the post-Reformation period. She is the author of Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660 (1999), Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (2007) and Shakespeare and Religion (2010), and is currently working on British dramatic responses to the Counter-Reformation. She has co-edited Anglican Women Novelists: Charlotte Brontë to P. D. James (with Judith Maltby, 2019) and Early Modern Literature and England’s Long Reformation (with David Loewenstein, 2020). She serves on the editorial boards of Reformation and British Catholic History, and—together with Thomas S. Freeman and Ann Hutchison—founded the series ‘Catholic and Recusant Texts of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods’ published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto.
Alexandra Walsham
is Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain and Ireland. Her books include The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2011; joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize); Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain (Ashgate, 2014); and Generations: Age, Ancestry and Memory in the English Reformations (OUP, 2023). She was Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Project ‘Remembering the Reformation’ between 2016 and 2019. She delivered the 2024 Wiles Lectures at Queen’s University Belfast on ‘The Persecution of the Tongue: Speech, Silence and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England’ and is currently preparing them for publication.
J. Christopher Warner
is a professor of English at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, whose recent publications include an essay on printed University of Louvain thesis sheets, a.k.a. quaestiones theologicae (in De Gulden Passer: A Book History Journal), an essay on the contents and fate of John Fowler’s stock left with Christopher Plantin (PBSA), and a critical edition of William Tyndale’s Exposition of 1 John and Exposition upon Matthew 5–7 (Vol. 4 of the Independent Works of William Tyndale, CUAP). His monograph in progress, John Fowler (1537–1579), Elizabethan Exile in the Netherlandish Book Trade, is under contract with Brill to be published in the series in which the present book appears, Library of the Written Word: The Handpress World.