Notes on Contributors
Hans W. Blom
is Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and 2011–2013 daad Professor at the University of Potsdam (Germany). He has also taught at Cambridge University (United Kingdom), the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). His edited works include Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae (Brill, 2009); Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment (University of Toronto Press, 2007); Grotius and the Stoa (Van Gorcum, 2004); Hobbes: The Amsterdam Debate (Olms, 2001); and Sidney: Court Maxims (Cambridge University Press, 1996). He is an editor-in-chief of the journal Grotiana.
Erik De Bom
is an intellectual historian and political theorist. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven, Belgium) and is also affiliated to lectio (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance). He has published widely on early modern political thought and is the editor, together with Harald E. Braun, of The Companion to the Spanish Scholastics, forthcoming with Brill.
Bram De Ridder
is a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven (Belgium). His work focusses on early modern peacemaking and border management, as well as on the methodological combination of history and international relations. After having finished a brief visiting scholarship at Harvard University (USA), he worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the European retopea project. Currently, he coordinates the applied history project Corvus, focussing on the uses of history in contemporary border management.
Alicia Esteban Estríngana
is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). Previously she was a member of the research staff of the Centre for Historical Studies of the Carlos de Amberes Foundation (Madrid, Spain). Her research focuses on the political and military government of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy, with special attention to the Southern Netherlands, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recently, she has edited a collective book on loyalty and disloyalty to the Spanish monarch: Decidir la lealtad. Leales y desleales en contexto, siglos xvi y xvii (Doce Calles, 2017).
Simon Groenveld
is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Dutch History at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). Recently he published a selection of his articles on the Eighty Years War: Facetten van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Twaalf artikelen over de periode 1559–1652 (Verloren 2018).
Gustaaf Janssens
is Emeritus Professor of Archival Sciences at KU Leuven (Belgium). As a state archivist, he was the keeper of the Royal Archives at the Royal Palace in Brussels. He has focused his research on archives and human rights, on monarchy and politics in Belgium during the nineteenth and twentieth century, and on different aspects of the Revolt in the Netherlands during the reign of Philip ii. He is a member of the Belgian Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis – Commission royale d’Histoire, and of the Academia Europea e Iberoamericana de Yuste (Spain).
Randall Lesaffer
is Professor of Legal History at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and Professor of international and European legal history at KU Leuven (Belgium). From 2008 to 2012 he served as dean of Tilburg Law School. He is editor-in-chief of Oxford Historical Treaties (Oxford University Press) and of the Studies in the History of International Law (Brill/Nijhoff) and is an editor of the Global Law Series (Cambridge University Press) and the Journal of the History of International Law. He is president of the Grotiana Foundation.
Shavana Haythornthwaite
obtained her PhD at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) on a study of post-war reparations in early modern and modern international law. She is a lecturer in international law, security and human rights at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and a Fulbright Fellow in Cyber Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC (USA). She is also founder of Ontogeny Global, a revolutionary risk management firm. Her main areas of expertise are governance, security law and policy, risk management and human rights. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and the European University Institute (Italy).
José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez
is a specialist in political history of early modern Europe and the Americas. Full Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain), he is also the general coordinator of Red Columnaria. His last book is Hispanofilia. Los tiempos de la hegemonía hispánica, to be published by Fondo de Cultura Económica-España in 2021.
Werner Thomas
is Professor of Spanish and Latin American History and senior researcher of the Early Modern History Research Group at KU Leuven (Belgium). He has focused his research on the Low Countries as a part of the Spanish monarchy, and has published on the history of the Spanish Inquisition, the repression of Protestantism in Spain, and the government of the archdukes Albert and Isabella Clara Eugenia in the Southern Netherlands.
Lies van Aelst
graduated in Early Modern Intellectual History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She currently works as a senior programme manager and researcher for the Wethoudersvereniging (Council of Aldermen), and conducts PhD research at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). She is also a member of the Provincial Council of South Holland.
Gustaaf van Nifterik
is assistant Professor of Legal History at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His research focusses on the development of constitutional law elements, such as sovereignty, democracy, and the rule of law, with some emphasis on the sixteenth and seventeenth century, in particular on Hugo Grotius. He is member of the Grotiana Foundation.
René Vermeir
is Professor of Early Modern History at Ghent University (Belgium). His research interest is in political and diplomatic history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has published mainly on the place and role of the Low Countries within the context of the Spanish empire and is at the present preparing an edition of the ordinances of Philip iv in the Southern Netherlands (1621–1665).