Notes on Contributors
Hélder Carvalhal
is a post-doctoral research associate and tutor at the Department of Economics of the University of Manchester. He holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Minho (Portugal) and a PhD in Early Modern History from the doctoral programme, History: Change and Continuity in a Global World (Lisbon and Évora, Portugal). Besides elites and power, his research interests include economic history, living standards and well-being, labour, gender and war. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History and the American Journal of Human Biology. He is co-editor of The First World Empire. Portugal, War, and Military Revolution (Routledge, 2021).
Peter Edwards
is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern British Social and Economic History at the University of Roehampton, London. He has published numerous articles and books on subjects as diverse as agriculture and rural society, livestock marketing, the logistics of the British Civil Wars and the social, economic and cultural role of horses in early modern England, as well as case studies of members of the aristocratic Cavendish family of Bolsover, Chatsworth and Welbeck. Three of his books deal with the iconic appeal of horses to the aristocracy: The Horse as Cultural Icon; Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England; and Horses and the Aristocratic Lifestyle in Early Modern England. In 2021 he co-edited a special issue of The Court Historian, entitled ‘Rank and Ritual in the Early Modern Court’.
Jemma Field
is Associate Director of Research at the Yale Center for British Art and Contributing Editor of British Art Studies. A specialist in early modern English court culture and female patronage, she is particularly interested in the politics of the dressed body. Her current research examines the relationship between the royal wardrobe and London’s mercantile and artisanal communities in the early Stuart period. She has published articles in Costume, Northern Studies, The Court Historian and Women’s History Review, and her first monograph, Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts, 1589–1619, was published by Manchester University Press in 2020.
Cailean Gallagher
is an Associate Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. He received his PhD from that university in 2022 for a thesis on the history of Jacobite political and economic thought. His published articles and chapters range from an edited commentary on David Hume’s History of England by the political economist, Sir James Steuart, to a study of the development of gig work in Edinburgh. He is co-author of Roch Winds: A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland, and writes regularly on current and historical affairs for publications including The National and The Morning Star. He is an experienced extra-mural educator and has developed a learning programme called Scottish Histories of Resistance for local research groups.
Pedro José Herades-Ruiz
who gained his doctorate at the European University Institute, specializes in political and military histories of the Hispanic and French monarchies during the sixteenth-century. He is the author of two book chapters about the fortification of Cartagena and the role of its harbour in the Mediterranean strategy of the Hispanic Monarchy. Currently, he is working on a series of papers about the political construction of the Hispanic Monarchy in the kingdom of Murcia and the role of expertise in the fabric of the Hispanic model of Absolutism.
Vita Malašinskienė
is a PhD student at the Faculty of History of Vilnius University and a lecturer of Ruthenian paleography. For her doctoral research she has carried out research in Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian archives. She has also worked as an intern at the Institute of Legal History of the University of Warsaw. She is interested in the state administration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the auxiliary sciences of history, especially diplomacy and palaeography.
Graeme S. Millen
holds a PhD (2022) in History from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is a tutor in modern Scottish and British history at the University of St. Andrews and contributes to the Scotland, Scandinavia, and Northern European Biographical Database. He is also a Staff Associate at the University of Dundee and teaches with the Open University there. He specializes in the subject of the Highland War (1689–1691) but has research interests in the Nine Years’ War (1688–1697), Scottish migration, martial culture, identity and military memoirs, as well as the Scots Army in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
Tibor Monostori
is a historian, economist and Hispanist from Hungary. He is a member of the ‘Noble Emigration and Memory (1541–1756) Source Research and Critical Editing Research Group at the Hungarian Research Network in Budapest’. His primary research interests are global politics, Habsburg studies, diplomacy, economics and ideas in early modern Spain, Central Europe and beyond. His biography about Diego Saavedra Fajardo, published in English in 2019, and translated into Spanish in 2021, was endorsed by Peter H. Wilson. The summary of his research on the relations between Central Europe and the Spanish Monarchy, entitled Hungaria Hispanica – Resilient Hungary and its integration into the Spanish Habsburg system, 1558–1648, was published by Palgrave earlier this year.
Steve Murdoch
is Head of the Department of Military History at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. When this essay was written he was working at the University of St Andrews with a research focus on the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), a field in which he has published extensively. His monographs include The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513–1713 (Brill, 2010) and with Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years’ War (Pickering & Chatto, 2014).
David Potter
is Emeritus Reader at the University of Kent. He has published extensively on French early modern history, including War and Government in Picardy, 1470–1560; A History of France, 1460–1560; and Renaissance France at War, as well as many articles on the French court, the nobility of France and the French army in that period. He has also written extensively on Anglo-French relations and Renaissance diplomacy, notably Henry VIII and Francis I: the Final Conflict and two Camden Society volumes on A Knight of Malta at the Court of Elizabeth I and The Letters of Paul de Foix, French Ambassador at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1562–1566. He has completed an edition of the Correspondence of Antoine de Bourbon, king of Navarre, as well as recently a long article on his religious affiliations in Revue de l’histoire du Protestantisme. He is at present working on an edition of the letters missive of Francis I, which is nearly complete.
Peter R. Roberts,
MA, PhD, FSA, FRHistS is Reader Emeritus in Early Modern British History at the University of Kent, and is a former Fellow of Corpus Christ College, Cambridge. In his publications he has specialized in Anglo-Welsh relations (Tudor Wales and the Welsh Tudors) and Elizabethan theatre history (the life and career of Christopher Marlowe). He has been a Visiting Fellow of the Universities of Harvard and Yale and of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The basic research for this study was conducted during his tenure of a Leverhulme Fellowship.
Irene Vicente-Martin
is a Marcel Bataillon Fellow at MIAS-Casa de Velázquez, specializing in the impact of the Iberian Union (1580–1640) on the Luso-American territories, and the role of colonial cities as intermediate nodes of local contexts and imperial junctures. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute (2022) and has worked as a Research Fellow at the Mauritshuis Museum. She is currently researching how European stereotypes of Brazil and their influence shaped the negotiations of power in aspects of life such as politics, religion and the economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Matthias Wong
is a cultural historian in the Department of History at the University of Singapore, with a focus on the lived experiences of the inhabitants of seventeenth-century Britain, temporality and reactions to trauma in print culture. He also works in the fields of public history, digital humanities and environmental research. Prior to joining the department, he was a digital humanities researcher at the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Hull.