Notes on Contributors
LluÃs AgustÃ
holds a doctorate in Information Science from the University of Barcelona, where he is currently Professor. He is director of the Booksellers School of the University of Barcelona and the Booksellers Guild of Catalonia. As a researcher he is involved in the research project âNetworks of Knowledge: The Sale and Circulation of Printed Books in Spain and Latin Americaâ. His most recent publications include âLa obra editorial de Bartomeu Costa-Amic: posibles estrategias comercialesâ, in LluÃs AgustÃ, Mònica Baró, Pedro Rueda RamÃrez (eds.), Edición y propaganda del libro: las estrategias publicitarias en España e Hispanoamérica, siglos XVIIâXX (Barcelona: Calambur, 2018), pp. 111â138, and â¿Beneïts siguin els censors?â, El món dâahir: història dâautor, 9 (2019), pp. 137â147.
Alex Alsemgeest
is the curator of library collections at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Between 2018 and 2020 he was a researcher and bibliographer for âThe Library of Leufstabrukâ, a collaborative project between Uppsala University Library and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands). In these years, he was also the curator of heritage collections at the Dutch House of Representatives. In 2020â2021 he was project manager for the project âUnlocking the Fagel Collectionâ at the Library of Trinity College Dublin, again in collaboration with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. He has published extensively on the early modern book trade and cultural transfer, particularly in relation to the Dutch Republic and Sweden, as well as the history of libraries and collections. Recent publications include the chapters âCover to Cover. A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis Brasiliaeâ, pp. 53â76, and âCensus of the Copies of Willem Piso and Georg Marcgrafâs Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden and Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1648)â, pp. 166â211, both co-authored with Jeroen Bos, in Mariana Françozo (ed.), Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (2023).
MichaÅ Bajer
is assistant professor at the University of Szczecin. His research focuses on poetics and literary translation in the early modern period. In addition to establishing critical editions of literary texts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (StanisÅaw Morsztyn, Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin), he has published several articles on the European circulation of literary forms and models. Recent publications include âLa traduction des descriptions âsavantâ de Delille: le troisième chant de LâHomme des champs en anglais, en italien et en polonaisâ, Cahiers Roucher-André Chénier, 38 (2020), pp. 61â77, and âDe la librairie à la traduction dramatique : le livre de théâtre français en Prusse royale et en Pologne (1680â1730)â, in M. Bombart et al. (eds.), âA qui liraâ: Littérature, livre et librairie en France au XVIIe siècle (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2020), pp. 573â584. His monograph on translations of Pierre Corneilleâs and Jean Racineâs tragedies in the Polish Age of Enlightenment (1740â1830) is forthcoming.
Giliola Barbero
holds a Ph.D. in Literature of Italian Humanism. Currently she is an independent researcher and she teaches IT for Cultural Heritage at the Catholic University of Milan. She has been coordinator of the BEIC Digital Library and director of the Malatestiana Library in Cesena. Her latest research mainly focuses on the circulation of printed books and the book trade (sixteenth century) and on software for book history. She has published âIl ms. Vat. lat. 7129 di Aldo Manuzio il Giovane: studio paleografico e codicologico al servizio della storia del libroâ, La Bibliofilia, 121:3 (2019), pp. 429â449, and, with Adriana Paolini, Le edizioni antiche di Bernardino Telesio: censimento e storia (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017).
Joseph L. Black
is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with research interests in Renaissance British non-dramatic literature and book history. His recent publications include The Martin Marprelate Press: A Documentary History (2020), Private Libraries of Renaissance England, vol. 10 (2020), vol. 9 (2017), vol. 8 (2014), and vol. 7 (2009), all with R.J. Fehrenbach; The Library of the Sidney Family of Penshurst Place (2013), with G. Warkentin and W. Bowen; The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition (2008); and contributions to the volumes Womenâs Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain (2019), Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys (2015), Oxford Handbook of Renaissance English Prose (2013), and Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (2010). His major current project is a Clarendon edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, co-edited with Andrew Hadfield, Jennifer Richards, and Cathy Shrank.
Helwi Blom
is a literary historian whose research focuses on early modern France. Her scholarly interests include popular print (the Bibliothèque bleue), the Huguenot diaspora and reception studies. In 2012, she earned her PhD in French studies from Utrecht University with a dissertation on the reception of medieval romances of chivalry in seventeenth-century France. She is currently Lecturer in French at Radboud University (Nijmegen). From 2017 to 2021 she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the MEDIATE (Measuring Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors and Texts in Europe, 1665â1830) project at Radboud University. Recent publications comprise several articles on early modern French catalogues as well as two co-edited volumes: Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe. Translation, Dissemination and Mediality (De Gruyter, 2023), and Du Calendrier des Bergers au Pantagruel; lâatelier Nourry à Lyon au début du XVIe siècle (forthcoming, Droz, 2024). She is presently working on an analytic bibliography of private library catalogues published in France between 1600 and 1830.
Laurence Brockliss
is emeritus professor of early modern French history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the history of education, science and medicine in early modern France and Britain and has a general interest in the history of European ideas and their institutionalisation. His books include French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1987), The Medical World of Early Modern France (1997, with Colin Jones), Calvetâs Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (2002) and From Provincial Savant to Parisian Naturalist: The Recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741â1824) (2017). He is at present completing a book on the British professions in the nineteenth century.
Alberto José Campillo Pardo
holds a PhD in History from the Universidad de Sevilla. His research focus has been in two main areas: the circulation of knowledge between Spain and New Granada in the Early Modern Period and the inquisitorial and governmental censorship in the Hispanic Monarchy. He has published several works on these subjects with high impact publishers, such as Brill, Palgrave MacMillan, Comares, and the Universidad de Sevilla. He is currently working as Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow, funded by the âNext Generationâ EU program, at the Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, both in Spain.
Evelien Chayes
(PhD University of Amsterdam) holds a position at the CNRSâs Institut de recherche et dâhistoire des textes, where she is directing the project Sion-Digit. At Radboud University she was involved in the ERC MEDIATE project. A former fellow at Harvard Universityâs Villa I Tatti, and Universität Hamburgâs Maimonides Centre, she is also an associate researcher at Université Bordeaux Montaigneâs Centre Montaigne. She studies literature in close inter-relation with legal documents from French and Italian archives, with special interest in Jewish-Christian networks, the circulation of ideas and objects, in particular book collections, studied locally and also in their transborder context. She is the founder of the book-series Mediterranean Nexus 1100â1700 and administrator of the Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne. Recent articles: with A. Legros, âUn brouillon inédit de Montaigne parmi des actes notariésâ, Bibliothèque dâHumanisme et Renaissance, 85 (2023), pp. 87â95; âRetour sur lâhébraïsme de Pontus de Tyard: distinctions et appropriationsâ, in F. Rouget (ed.), Pontus de Tyard et la varietas (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022), pp. 209â225; âConfronter les librairies bordelaises. Quelle place pour une boutique réformée (1550â1571)?â, in V. Giacomotto-Charrra, E. Chayes (eds.), Revue française dâhistoire du livre, 142 (2021): La vie du livre, les bibiliothèques et les collections en Aquitaine à lâépoque de Montaigne, pp. 67â77.
Federica Dallasta
holds a PhD in Archival and Bibliographic Science and teaches the history of the book in the age of printing at the Università di Parma. Her publications concern the book trade, the circulation of the book and book censorship in Parma from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. She is the author of two monographs: Eredità di carta. Biblioteche private e circolazione libraria nella Parma farnesiana (1545â1731) (2010) and Al cliente lettore. Il commercio e la censura del libro a Parma nellâepoca farnesiana. 1545â1731 (2012), published by Franco Angeli in Milan.
Marieke van Delft
was Curator of Early Printed Collections at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. She studied history and book history at the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden and gained her doctorate in cultural studies at the KU Leuven. Van Delft has published on many aspects of the history of the printed book in the Netherlands in various ages. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and chairman of CERLâs Provenance Working Group. As chairman she was the leading figure in the creation of the CERL Provenance Digital Archive. Since 2017 she contributes to another CERL tool, the Material Evidence in Incunabula database.
Pierre Delsaerdt
is professor at the University of Antwerp and part-time professor at KU Leuven. He lectures on book and library history, the history of the Low Countries, and the management of cultural heritage collections. He obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the history of the book trade and of private book ownership at the old University of Leuven (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries), which was published by Leuven University Press in 2001. His current research focuses on the design of early printed books and on the history of libraries and bibliophily, especially in the Southern Low Countries in the early modern period and the nineteenth century.
MarÃa Idalia GarcÃa Aguilar
holds a PhD in Scientific Documentation from the University of Granada (1999). She is Researcher at the Library Science and Information Research Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her most recent book is La vida privada de las bibliotecas [The private life of libraries] (Rosario, 2020) and she is working on research in progress entitled âThe Witnesses of Bookâs Culture: Bibliographical Canon and Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (2021â2023)â. She is also the author of works dedicated to book production, inquisitorial control of books and the history of libraries, all of these issues within the context of New Spain. She was winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize (2016).
Giovanna Granata
holds a degree in Humanities (Classics), a PhD in Ancient History, both from the University of Pisa, and a university degree in librarianship from the Scuola Speciale per Archivisti e Bibliotecari (Rome). From 2001 to 2003 she was Lecturer at the University G. DâAnnunzio of Chieti-Pescara. In 2004 she moved to the University of Cagliari, where she was appointed full professor. Her main interests concern the study of private collections both in the early modern period and in the contemporary age, the circulation of books in the early age of printing and the history of libraries. She is a scientific committee member of the research group âPrivate Libraries of Philosophers from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Centuryâ, <picus.unica.it>, and of RICI: Research on the Inquiry of the Congregation of the Index, <rici.vatlib.it>.
Ann-Marie Hansen
is presently the project manager of Unlocking the Fagel Collection at the Library of Trinity College Dublin. She obtained her PhD in French literature from McGill University (2016) with a dissertation on editorial conflict in the Huguenot publishing networks of the early eighteenth century. She has since held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Rennes (France) and was a Radboud Excellence Fellow at Radboud University (Netherlands). Her current research focuses on the material evidence of reader interactions with early modern print and has notably been published in Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (2021). She is also co-editor of Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650â1750 (Brill, 2024).
Paul G. Hoftijzer
is P.A. Tiele professor (emeritus) in the history of the early-modern Dutch book at the University of Leiden and chairman of the board of the Bibliotheca Thysiana (founded 1653). Among his ongoing research interests are the international book trade of the Dutch Republic and the history of printing, bookselling, reading and collecting at Leiden in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Rindert Jagersma
is a book historian and bibliographer based at Radboud University (The Netherlands), specialized in the book trade of Dutch Republic around 1700 (PhD, University of Amsterdam). In the ERC-funded MEDIATE project (Measuring Enlightenment: Disseminating Ideas, Authors, and Texts in Europe, 1665â1830) he focuses on Dutch auction catalogues and their owners. His earlier publications concern private book collections in the long eighteenth century; the life and works of the Dutch pamphleteer Ericus Walten (1662â1697) and the importance of pamphleteers and booksellers in the dissemination of the radical Enlightenment; the quantitative approach of the Dutch book trade at the end of the seventeenth century in the Netherlands; and the identification of the hitherto unknown printers of the works of Benedictus de Spinoza (1632â1677).
Otto S. Lankhorst
is a historian. He grew up in the Hanseatic city of Deventer and studied in Nijmegen, Amsterdam and Strasbourg. He obtained his doctorate in 1983 at the Catholic University of Nijmegen on the life and work of Reinier Leers (1654â1714), international publisher and bookseller in Rotterdam. For many years he worked at the Catholic Documentation Center and the University Library at Nijmegen. During this time, he compiled volumes 1 and 2 of the Bibliography of Catholic Dutch Periodicals (BKNP). From 2004 until his retirement in 2019 he was librarian and curator in the Centre for the heritage of religious life in the Netherlands, situated in Sint Agatha near Cuijk. He has published widely on international aspects of the Dutch book trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and he has travelled to many European libraries and archives to collect information about catalogues and journals published in the Dutch Republic.
István Monok
served as Director General at the National Széchényi Library (Budapest) from 1999 until 2010. Since 2010, he has worked as Professor of Early Modern Cultural History at the Károly Eszterházy University (Eger), at the University of Szeged, and from 2021 at the University of Tokaj-Hegyalja (Sárospatak). He is also currently Director General of the Library and Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on different aspects of early modern Hungarian book culture and the history of reading. His latest monographies in English are entitled The Cultural Horizon of Aristocrats in the Hungarian Kingdom. Their Libraries and Erudition in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2019), and The Bibliotheca Corvina. The fate, mission and destiny of a library (Budapest-Sárospatak: LâHarmattan, University of Tokaj-Hegyalja, 2023).
Róbert Oláh
is senior research fellow and rare book librarian in the College Library of the Transtibiscan Church District, Debrecen. He completed his PhD at Debrecen University (Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies) in 2016. His thesis is concerned with âThe Literacy of Reformed Ministers István Miskolci Csulyak and Mihály Tofeusâ. His research interests lie in the areas of cultural history, literary history and the history of the Reformed Church.
Andrea Reyes Elizondo
is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) working on the history of reading. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University where she works on projects related to citizen science and academic research systems. Her dissertation focuses on reconstructing the possibilities of reading for various groups in a society by looking into the context of this cultural technique and the elements that influence it. Her geographical area of research is New Spain during the eighteenth century. She holds a BA in Communication Science, a BA in Dutch Studies, and a MA in Book and Digital Media Studies.
Pedro Rueda RamÃrez
holds a doctorate in history from the University of Seville. He is Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the coordinator of the research project âNetworks of Knowledge: The Sale and Circulation of Printed Books in Spain and Latin Americaâ, on the dissemination and circulation of news through printing. The project studies the channels used by booksellers, printers and publishers for bringing print production to the market. His most recent publications include âTransfer of Knowledges: Written Culture and Books in the Hispanic Atlantic Worldâ, in D. Moreno (ed.), The Complexity of Hispanic Religious Life in 16thâ18-Century, (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 153â188, and âEfÃmeros de fe: estrategias de distribución de impresos y estampas devotas en Cataluña (siglos XVIIâXVIII)â, La Bibliofilia, 121:2 (2019), pp. 327â349.
Jonas Thorup Thomsen
is a researcher at the Department of History at Lund University, working on the project âNoble Wills. Inheritance and distribution of property within the Swedish nobility, 1750â1810â. In addition, he teaches at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. In 2022, he obtained a PhD in history from Aarhus University with the thesis Danish Clergymen and their Book Collections: An Investigation into Clerical Libraries, Book Distribution, and Knowledge Circulation in Denmark, c.1685â1810. His research interests include book history, the circulation of knowledge and the libraries of the late enlightenment.
Anders Toftgaard
is a senior researcher in manuscripts and rare books at the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. MA in comparative literature, he received his PhD in Italian from the University of Copenhagen in 2006. He is specialized in book history and in Renaissance French and Italian literature. His most recent publications are articles on Montaigne, Giacomo Castelvetro, the Decameron, Mazarinades and Battles of the Book in Denmark from the Reformation to the Great Northern War. He has catalogued the collection of mazarinades in the Royal Danish Library, and he is currently working on a research project on the creation and the dispersal of Otto Thottâs library.
Fan Wang
is a book historian whose research focuses on the history of reading and private libraries in pre-modern China. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020. Her recent publications include âRooms of Their Own: Scholarsâ Studios in Late Imperial China and Cao Xueqinâs Story of the Stoneâ, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 55:2 (2022), pp. 141â61; âHow Late Imperial Chinese Literati Read Their Books: Inscribing, Collating, and Excerptingâ, Book History, 24:2 (2021), pp. 320â351; âThe Distant Sound of Book Boats: The Itinerant Book Trade in Jiangnan from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuriesâ, Late Imperial China, 39:2 (2018), pp. 7â58; and âRead for Rule: Emperor Taizong of Tang and qunshu zhiyaoâ, in Jonathan Rose and Mary Hammond (eds.), The Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the Present (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), pp. 31â53.