Notes on Contributors
Renaud Adam
works for auction house Arenberg Auctions (Brussels) and is scientific collaborator for the Modern History Department of the University of Liège, where he also taught the History of the Book in the Renaissance from 2012 until 2019. He has published books and many articles on the history of the book in the Southern Low Countries (15th–17th c.) and on censorship, including Le théâtre de la censure (XVIe–XXIe siècles): De l’ère typographique à l’ère numérique (Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 2020), Vivre et imprimer dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux (des origines à la Réforme) (2 vols., Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) and Lectures italiennes dans les pays wallons à la première modernité (1500–1630), with Nicole Bingen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015).
Jacob Baxter
is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews and an associate of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. In 2019, he graduated with a first class degree in History from the University of St Andrews. The following year, he received his M.Litt (Distinction) in Book History from the same institution, along with the Postgraduate Gray Prize for the best overall performance at a taught masters level in the Arts and Divinity Faculty at St Andrews. His thesis focuses on the literary life and afterlife of the English diplomat Sir William Temple (1628–1699). In 2023 he will publish An Author and an Ambassador: A Bibliography of Sir William Temple, 1664–1828 in Brill’s Library of the Written Word.
Natasha Constantinidou
(University of Cyprus) works on early modern intellectual history and the history of the book. She is co-editor (with Han Lamers) of Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe, 15th–17th centuries (2020). Other publications include Responses to Religious Division, c. 1580–1620. Public and Private, Divine and Temporal (2017), Documenting the early modern book world: inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print (co-edited with Malcolm Walsby), as well as several articles on sixteenth-century Greek printing. Her current book project focuses on the printing of Greek books in sixteenth-century Paris. She was a member of the USTC project at the University of St Andrews between 2009 and 2011.
Arjan van Dijk
is Director of Brill’s History & Social Sciences unit and Senior Acquisitions Editor for Early Modern Studies. He began his publishing career in 1998 as corrector for IDC Publishers and joined Brill in 2006, working from its Leiden and Boston offices. Aside from the Library of the Written Word, his programme includes the Journal of Early Modern History, Quaerendo, and Erasmi Opera Omnia. Among his own articles are ‘Early Printed Qurʾans: The Dissemination of the Qurʾan in the West’ (Journal of Qurʾanic Studies), ‘Primary Source Publishers in a Googling World’ (Microform & Imaging Review), and ‘Das Dämonische als moderne Rezeptionskategorie. Dargestellt an Goethes Egmont und Torquato Tasso’ (Neophilologus). Arjan holds an MA in German Studies from Leiden University.
Paul Dijstelberge
(1956) worked as a chef (French cuisine) for 14 years, before he became a bibliographer at the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands in 1990. In 2000 he began work at the University Library of Amsterdam, where he catalogued fifteenth- and sixteenth-century books. In 2007 he became both curator and assistant professor for the history of the book. He has published books and articles, and a few short stories. His main digital projects are
Shanti Graheli
is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. Previous to that, she held a LKAS research fellowship at Glasgow in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, and she collaborated for many years with the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at St Andrews. Her monograph, Italian Books and the French Renaissance (forthcoming) explores the circulation and collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century. She is the author of various published studies of Italian and French Renaissance print culture, exploring their mutual interactions and the circulation of books between the two domains, with a special interest for the Aldine press, provenance studies, and the investigation of early modern libraries.
Michiel van Groesen
is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of two books, Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (Penn, 2017) and Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages, 1590–1634 (Brill, 2008), and the editor of The Legacy of Dutch Brazil (Cambridge, 2014). Broadly speaking his work deals with the culture of imperial expansion and the politics of global interactions. He was Queen Wilhelmina Professor of Dutch History at Columbia University in New York (2013), and visiting fellow at Princeton University (2019) and Birkbeck, University of London (2011). He is currently writing a monograph on the circulation of news in the Atlantic world which is provisionally entitled An Ocean of Rumours, and which will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Earle Havens
is Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts in the Sheridan Libraries, and Director of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the history of books and libraries, historical reading practices, and scribal culture during the early modern period. Dr Havens’s most recent book, edited with Walter Stephens, is Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). He is currently completing two collaborative book projects, one with Mark Rankin on the clandestine book culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground (Brill), and another with Erin Rowe entitled Women of the Book: Material Texts and the Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women, 1450–1800 (Penn State University Press). He is also co-editor with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton of the Information Cultures monograph series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Paul Hoftijzer
(1954) is emeritus professor of early modern Dutch book history at the University of Leiden. He has published on international (in particular Anglo-Dutch) book trade relations and on the history of publishing, bookselling and book collecting at Leiden.
Graeme J. Kemp
is co-Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He was awarded his PhD in 2013 for a study of Religious Controversy in the Sixteenth Century. His research looks at applying distant reading methodologies and visualisation techniques to historical datasets. Currently, he is investigating the buying and selling of early modern editions at auction. He leads a project entitled Visualising History: Exploring Historical Data Through Visualisation, sponsored by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
is an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She is the author of two monographs. The first, Jan Januszowski – pisarz, tłumacz, wydawca (2007) concerns a printer-intellectual active in Krakow in the sixteenth century. The second, Sygnety drukarskie w Rzeczypospolitej XVI wieku. Źródła ikonograficzne i treści ideowe (2015) interrogates printer’s devices in early modern Poland-Lithuania. She has published a number of articles on book history, emblematics and the history of ideas, as well as edited extensive sixteenth-century texts.
Joop W. Koopmans
is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Groningen, with a special interest in the interaction between media and politics. He has written many books and articles in this field, among them Early modern media and the news in Europe: Perspectives from the Dutch angle (Leiden: Brill, 2018). He has also (co-)edited several volumes, of which the latest is Willem Lodewijk: Stadhouder en strateeg (1560–1620–2020) (Hilversum: Verloren, 2020). His latest monograph is Het nieuws verbeeld: Oorlog en vrede in de titelprenten van de Europische Mercurius (1690–1750) (Hilversum: Verloren, 2021), a book about the frontispieces of the news periodical Europische Mercurius. Since 2020 he has been the chair of the Royal Frisian Society (founded in 1827).
Nina Lamal
is a postdoctoral researcher on the project Inventing Public Diplomacy in early modern Europe at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the use of the printing press by early modern diplomats in the Dutch Republic and German lands. She is also a researcher and editor of the digital edition of the correspondence of Suriano, the first Venetian envoy in the Dutch Republic (1616–1623). She co-edited Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) (Brill: Leiden, 2021) and a themed issue for The Seventeenth Century on Cultural and Public Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century Europe (issue 36:3, 2021).
Hanna de Lange
is a Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) PhD student at the University of St Andrews and Assistant Editor of Brill’s Book History Online. Her doctoral research is a study of the distribution of English books on the early modern Northern European book market. She graduated in early modern history from the University of Amsterdam. Her Master’s thesis explored the news recorded in the diary of a seventeenth-century Dutch militiaman. In 2018 she was awarded a fellowship at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. There she researched the mock naval battle organised in 1697 in honour of Tsar Peter the Great, as depicted in a painting by Abraham Storck. Hanna was also a volunteer in the research project ‘Correspondence of Johan de Witt (1625–1672)’, hosted by the Huygens/KNAW Research Institute in the Netherlands.
Saskia Limbach
received her PhD in History from the University of St Andrews where she was an Assistant Editor of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. Her work concentrated on hitherto unrecorded single-sheet material and her monograph Government Use of Print (2021) appeared in the series of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History. She has been part of a digital humanities project, at the University of Mainz, and later of the EMoBookTrade Project at the University of Milan. In 2020, she was a Mercator Fellow at the University of Heidelberg where she worked closely with the project ‘Material Text Cultures’. Her research addresses the economic and legal conditions that shaped book production in early modern Germany. She specialises in financial transactions between clients and printers, the production and distribution of government print and the interaction of printers and academics. Most recently, she published on the challenging production of academic books in Wittenberg.
Karin Maag
is a professor of history at Calvin University and the Director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. She obtained her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1994 under Andrew Pettegree’s supervision. She has published several monographs, edited volumes, and translations, including most recently Worshipping with the Reformers (IVP Academic, 2021). Her research interests include the training of pastors, early modern church-state relations, and the practical ramifications of implementing the Reformation in early modern communities.
Alicia C. Montoya
is Professor of French Literature and Culture at Radboud University, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded MEDIATE project (Measuring Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors, and Texts in Europe, 1665–1830). She is the author of Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Cambridge, 2013), Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique (Paris, 2007) and the co-editor of several volumes, including Women Writing Back / Writing Back Women: Transnational Perspectives from the Late Middle Ages to the Dawn of the Modern Era (Leiden, 2010) and Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History (Paris, 2010).
Angela Nuovo
is Principal Investigator of the EMoBookTrade ERC project and professor of the History of the Book at the University of Milan. She has been Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, in 2012, and the recipient of an Ahmanson Research Fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles in 2014. In 2016 she was Gastprofessur für Italienische Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft (Cattedra de Sanctis) at ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich). Her recent publications include The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2013; paperback edition 2015).
John A. Sibbald
is an Honorary Vice-President of the Scottish Society for Computers and Law and its former Chairman. He was Scottish Consulting Editor for Computers and Law for a number of years and the co-founder and joint editor of the E-Law Review. From 1982 to 1988 he was Librarian of the Advocates’ Library. John is a member of the USTC’s Advisory Board.
Joke Spaans
has just retired as associate professor for the History of Christianity and is now a guest researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). She has published widely on the intersection between religion, society and culture in the Dutch Republic. Recent publications include: ‘Faces of the Reformation’, Church History and Religious Culture, 97 (2017), pp. 408–451; (with Ineke Loots) Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617–1666), On the Conversion of Indians and Heathens. An annotated translation of De conversione Indorum et gentilium (1669) (Leiden: Brill, 2018); ‘Spinoza in His Time: The 17th Century Religious Context’, Philosophies, 6 (2021), Special Issue: Henri Krop and Pooyan Tamimi Arab (eds.), Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670–2020). Commemorating A Long-Forgotten Masterpiece,
Michael S. Springer
is Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma. His research has focused on religious refugees and on confessional culture in early modern Europe, in particular on the London Strangers’ Church and its first superintendent John à Lasco. His publications include Restoring Christ’s Church: John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) and ‘Johannes a Lasco, a Polish and European reformer’, in the Brill Companion to the Christian Tradition: The Reformation in Central Europe, edited by Howard Louthan and Graeme Murdock (Leiden: Brill, 2015). In 2016 he joined the Dutch Church Book Provenance Project to survey and study the contents of the historic Dutch Church Library in London.
Drew B. Thomas
is a Science Foundation Ireland-Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at
University College Dublin. After receiving Bachelors and Masters degrees from
Saint Louis University and Harvard University, he earned his PhD in History from the University of St Andrews. He is co-editor of the Ornamento project at University College Dublin, applying machine learning to early modern illustration and ornamentation. He is the author of The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg (Brill, 2021).
Sandra Toffolo
is a researcher at the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico / Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. She is a historian of Renaissance Italy, with particular emphasis on Venice. Her research focuses on space, mobility, and the circulation of people, objects and ideas. After receiving her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence she has held positions and fellowships at, among other places, Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the University of St Andrews, where she was a member of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project, and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours. She is the author of Describing the City, Describing the State: Representations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
Steven Van Impe
is keeper of early printed books and manuscripts at the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp. He holds a master’s in History (Ghent University) and in Library and Information Science (Antwerp University) and is Doctor in Literature (Antwerp University). He is also connected to the Institute for the Study of Literature in the Netherlands (ISLN) of Antwerp University, and publishes on the history of printing and publishing in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Malcolm Walsby
is professor of book history at Enssib in Lyon and director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre. The co-founder of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, he has published extensively on European book history during the Renaissance and has edited bibliographies on French and Netherlandish books. Most recently, he is the author of L’imprimé en Europe occidentale, 1470–1680 (2020) and Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 (2021).
Arthur der Weduwen
is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and co-Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He has edited a volume on book catalogues in early modern Europe (Brill, 2021) and is the author of five books, including Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Brill, 2017), The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (with Andrew Pettegree, Yale UP, 2019), and The Library: A Fragile History (also with Andrew Pettegree, Profile, 2021). His next monograph will be Selling the Republican Ideal. State Communication in the Dutch Golden Age (OUP, 2023).
Alexander S. Wilkinson
is a Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He was born in Stirling and graduated with an MA in Modern History and an MLitt in Reformation Studies from the University of St Andrews before embarking on his PhD (2002) on the representation of Mary Queen of Scots in French Polemical Opinion, supervised by Andrew Pettegree. In 2001, he was appointed Project Manager of the British Academy and AHRC-funded French Book Project at St Andrews, before moving to Ireland in 2006 and joining the UCD School of History. In 2018, he completed Iberian Books, a ten-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which surveyed Spanish and Portuguese print before 1701. Sandy is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of several studies of the early modern European book world.