Notes on Editors and Contributors
Editors
Silke Muylaert
is a Belgian historian who obtained her Ph.D. on the topic of the Dutch Revolt and the so-called Stranger Churches in England at the University of Kent (UK) in 2017. After that, she completed several years of postdoctoral work at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she studied the mobility and ecclesiastical impact of migrant Reformed ministers returning from the migrant communities in the Lower Rhineland area. She has also published in the field of guild history.
Francesco Quatrini
is senior assistant professor in Early Modern History at the University of Florence. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Macerata in 2017, with a dissertation on the life and thought of the Collegiant Adam Boreel. He then worked at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Naples L’Orientale, University College Dublin, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests focus on early modern Protestant dissenters and the interrelations between their practices and ideas.
Nina Schroder-van 't Schip
is an art historian and specialist in Dutch Mennonite history based in the Netherlands. She completed her Ph.D. at Queen’s University, Canada, on the representation of early Anabaptism in art of the Dutch Republic (2018) and went on to do research on the topic of Mennonites and art as a postdoc and teacher with the Dutch Mennonite Seminary at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Presently, she runs the educational heritage company Amsterdam Arts & Heritage and works for Doopsgezind Amsterdam on a range of community development initiatives.
Contributors
Markus Bardenheuer
is a historian of early modern speech practices. In his Ph.D., he studied the impact of religious and political polemic on everyday sociability in early modern Zurich. Elsewhere, he has written about speech and privacy in 17th-century rural Switzerland, as well as sound practices in 19th-century Basel. He is based in Basel, where he works as a union secretary and part-time historian.
Wouter Kreuze
obtained his Ph.D. from University College Cork with a dissertation combining digital and cultural history for the study of handwritten newsletters. In the following year, he further developed his digital workflow for the digital collection of this source type during visiting fellowships at the German Historical Institute Washington, George Mason University, and the Folger Library. In October 2024, he joined the malcontents project at the University of Limerick as a postdoctoral researcher studying social deviancy among the professoriate of Early Modern universities in German speaking regions.
Timothy G. Fehler
is the William E. Leverette Professor of History at Furman University in South Carolina. He is the author and editor of studies of the social effects of religious change, particularly on charity, toleration, and migration. Books include Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden (1999) and Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution (2019).
Amelia Spell
is pursuing her doctoral work in Comparative Early Modern history at the University of Minnesota. Her essay “The Great Victory against Enemies of the Faith: The Battle of Lepanto (1571) in German News and Print” was published in the Furman Humanities Review (2023).
Jakub Basista
is a Polish historian working at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research interests concentrate on English 17th-century social and religious history. He is the author of two books (in Polish) and over one hundred publications. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Reformation Studies, the Society for the Study of Emotions in History, and reforc.
Marius van Hoogstraten
is Lecturer at the Mennonite Seminary at vu Amsterdam and Affiliate Researcher at the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society. He is the author of Theopoetics and Religious Difference (Mohr Siebeck, 2020) and Community and Catastrophe: An Ecclesio-Political Reading of the Schleitheim Confession (T&T Clark, 2025). He is also a preacher at the Mennonite congregation of Frankfurt, Germany, where he lives.
Martin van Gelderen
is Director of the Moritz-Stern-Institut and Professor of European Intellectual History at the University of Göttingen. His most recent book, co-edited with Ivan Gaskell, is Rembrandt: Künstler, Gesellschaft, Religion (Göttingen, 2025).
Jan Květina
works as the Head of the Department of Modern Transnational and Intellectual History at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of History) and also teaches at the University of Hradec Králové (Philosophical Faculty). His main research interest encompasses the issue of Central European political thought and republicanism with a particular focus on the context of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and aristocratic republican tradition.
Gary K. Waite
is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published extensively on Reformation non-conformists, persecution and religious toleration, demonology and the witch-hunts, and views of Jews and Muslims in the 17th century. His latest book, Anti-Anabaptist Polemics: Dutch Anabaptism and the Devil in England, 1531–1660 (2023), examines these subjects through polemical literature.
Vincenzo Lavenia
is Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Bologna. He was a visiting scholar at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and the universities of Coimbra, Cambridge, and Bielefeld. His publications include Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna (2017); Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture (2018, ed. with Cornel Zwierlein); Sacre metamorfosi. Roma e i racconti di conversione di infedeli e pagani (2022, with Chiara Petrolini and Sabina Pavone); and Sacrifice and Sacred Violence: History, Comparisons, and the Early Modern World (2025, ed. with C. Facchini, G. Imburglia, and S. Pavone).
William Cook Miller
is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester in New York State. He is the author of The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell up, 2023). He has published articles on literature and religious culture in journals including New Literary History, Milton Studies, Studies in Philology, and Shakespeare Quarterly. He is currently working on a book about the early modern concept of the soul.
Nigel Smith
is William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton University. His major works include Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale up, 2010); Is Milton Better than Shakespeare? (Harvard up, 2008); Andrew Marvell’s Poems (Longman Annotated English Poets series, 2003); Literature and Revolution in England, 1640–1660 (Yale up, 1994); and Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640–1660 (Oxford up, 1989). He has edited the Ranter tracts; George Fox’s Journal; with Jan Bloemendal and James A. Parente, ‘Transnational Exchange in the Early Modern Low Countries’, Renaissance Studies, 36.1 (2022). Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature (Princeton up) is shortly forthcoming.
Erica Heinsen-Roach
is the author of Consuls and Captives: Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019); co-editor of Ibero-Dutch Imperial Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century: Geopolitical Shifts in Global Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024); and co-editor of Harm and Healing: Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann (Berghahn Publishers, 2024). She is an independent scholar based in Florida.
Vera J. Camden
is Emerita Professor of English Literature, Kent State University, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. She is Associate Editor of American Imago and American Editor of The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and she is on the editorial board of Bunyan Studies. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis and She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers. Among her recent publications is “The Portrait of the Artist as John Bunyan: Thomas Hennell’s Puritan Progress” in Angelica Duran and Katie Calloway, eds., Global Bunyan and Visual Art.
Freya Sierhuis
is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and specialises in literary and intellectual history of 17th-century England and the Dutch Republic. She is the author of The Literature of the Arminian Controversy: Religion, Politics and the State in the Dutch Republic (Oxford up, 2015) and the co-editor of Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture (Routledge, 2013) and Fulke Greville and the Literary Culture of the English Renaissance (Oxford up, 2018). She is currently working on a book on the Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679).