Notes on Contributors
Elin Andersson
(b. 1977), PhD, is curator of special collections at the Rogge Library and the Cathedral Library in Strängnäs, and a specialist on medieval Latin manuscripts at Kungliga biblioteket/The National Library of Sweden. Her main research interests are book history and texts related to the medieval Birgittine order.
Kathleen M. Comerford
(b. 1966), PhD, is Professor of History at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro campus). Her main research interests are in the history of the book and libraries, Jesuit studies, and the history of Florence and Tuscany between the 1520s and 1630s.
Laura Kreigere-Liepiņa
(b. 1980), Mg. hum. in Classical Philology, chief bibliographer in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection at the National Library of Latvia. Her main academic interests are ideas of humanism, Neo-Latin literary heritage in sixteenth and seventeenth century Riga, and late medieval and early modern books.
Janis Kreslins
(b. 1955), PhD, is Senior Academic Librarian for Research Affairs at Kungliga biblioteket/The National Library of Sweden and the author of publications on identity formation, religious culture and the rise of indigenous language traditions in the early modern North European lands.
Andris Levans
(b. 1968), Dr. hist., is a Professor of Medieval history at the University of Latvia in Riga. His research interests include the history of medieval and early modern historiography and autobiographical texts, the history of concepts, memory phenomena and textual culture, as well as the history of the chancery practices of the Livonian bishops and Riga Cathedral chapter.
Mattias Lundberg
(b. 1976), PhD, is Professor of Musicology at Uppsala University. His research interests include late-medieval music and liturgy in Northern Europe, music of the Reformation movements, and historical music theory.
Hanna Mazheika
(b. 1984), PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie in the field of cultural and religious exchange between Eastern and Western Europe in the early modern period.
Jonas Nordin
(b. 1968), PhD, is Professor of Book and Library History at Lund University. His research is mainly focused on book culture and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Fryderyk Rozen
(b. 1983), PhD, is librarian at the Department of the Early Printed Books, National Library of Poland, Warsaw. His research interests are incunabula and book culture of the Evangelical communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Peter Sjökvist
(b. 1974), PhD, is Associate Professor of Latin at Uppsala University and Rare Books Librarian at Uppsala University Library. His research interests are early modern occasional poetry, dissertation culture and literary spoils of war.
Gustavs Strenga
(b. 1981), PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Greifswald and has recently been a Senior Researcher at the National Library of Latvia. The history of medieval Livonia, memory studies, remembrance of medieval heroes, ethnicity in the Middle Ages, gift giving as a historical phenomenon, and book history are his main academic interests.
Laine Tabora
(b. 1990), PhD candidate at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. Her scientific interests include the liturgical and devotional culture of the Middle Ages with a focus on prayer practices of the late medieval nunneries. The area of particular interest concerns liturgical manuscripts and fragments from medieval Livonia and the Baltic region.
Anders Toftgaard
(b. 1973), PhD, is Research Librarian at the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. He specializes in French and Italian Renaissance literature and book history.
Wolfgang Undorf
(b. 1964), PhD in book history, is Senior Librarian at Kungliga biblioteket/The National Library of Sweden. His main research interests are early Swedish and North European book history, especially the aspect of transnational history and cultural exchange from the fifteenth trough nineteenth centuries.
Lenka Veselá
(b. 1975), PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. Her main academic research interests are Czech book culture before 1800, digital humanities, the history of early modern libraries in Central Europe, and Swedish literary spoils of war from the Czech lands.