Notes on Contributors
Andreas P. Bassett
is an incoming Assistant Professor of English at San José State University. He is currently working on his first book on book buying and reading experiences in Renaissance England. Andreas was the Bibliographical Society of America’s 2024 Katharine F. Pantzer New Scholar, and a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. He is the creator and co-director of Marlowe in Sheets, an online digital resource for printing and making Christopher Marlowe’s books. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Marlowe Studies, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and Transmotion.
Basil Bowdler
is a PhD candidate in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on print and diplomacy in England and the Netherlands in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Basil has also worked for the USTC, primarily on Anglo-French newspapers.
Zachary Brookman
is a PhD candidate in the School of History at the University of St Andrews and a Research Assistant with the Universal Short Title Catalogue. Zachary’s work focuses on the development of printing, bookselling, and library culture in the seventeenth-century Swiss Confederacy. His wider professional interests include the use of official print in pre-Enlightenment republican cultures and the book trade activities of linguistic diasporas in early modern Europe. Zachary is supported by a Doctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Barnaby Bryan
is Archivist & Head of Collections at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court in London. He is responsible for the management, care and development of the Inn’s Archive, which covers a period from 1501 to the present day in formats from parchment to PDF. The Archive represents the documentary record of the full breadth of the Inn’s activities and encompasses subjects such as education, buildings and gardens, libraries, food and drink, music and drama, the Temple Church, and the many members, staff, tenants and residents who have been present over the centuries. The Archive also includes several collections of personal papers, and a wealth of illustrations, photographs and audio-visual material. Barnaby is also responsible for the care and curation of several of the Inn’s other historic collections, including paintings, armour, silver, sculpture and heraldic material.
Dieter Cammaerts
obtained his PhD in early modern book history at KU Leuven in 2024. His research focused on printed textbooks and the role of the printing press in education at the Old University of Louvain between 1474 and 1650. The interactions between book people, such as printers, publishers and booksellers, and academics, such as professors and students, as well as the way these actors coped with the medium of the printed textbook were the main objects of study. Other research interests of his are early modern book censorship, and book production and dissemination during the Jansenist controversy. Currently, he studies the interactions between printers and Jansenists and how they succeeded in producing books in the Malines archbishopric during the first half of the eighteenth century, in spite of a rigorous anti-Jansenist book censorship. In addition, he focusses on the role of book agent Arnauld de Brigode in the Jansenist controversy.
Matteo Colombo
is an Assistant at the Institut d’histoire de la Réformation at the University of Geneva. He earned his Master’s degree in History from the University of Geneva in 2022. That same year, he joined the SNSF project ‘16th Century Exegesis of Paul’, affiliated with the Universities of Geneva and Zurich. His PhD thesis, The Patristic Perspectives of Reformation Commentaries on Paul, focuses on reception history, the history of printing, Church history, and the history of exegesis. Matteo has a particular interest in the printing, reading, and paratextual presentation of Paul’s letters in sixteenth-century exegesis, as well as the patristic reception in early modern Pauline exegesis.
Barnaby Cullen
is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant with the COMLAWEU project at the University of St Andrews, having completed his PhD at the same institution in 2024. His thesis explored printed news media across the Baltic Sea Region during the seventeenth century from a comparative transnational perspective. He has also worked for the Universal Short Title Catalogue since 2019, during which he has been deeply involved in advancing the project’s Swedish, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian, German and Prussian data. In 2022 he published an article entitled ‘A Nordic Press: The Development of Printing in Scandinavia and the Baltic States before 1700 from a European Perspective’ (co-written with Arthur der Weduwen), appearing in Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture.
Hadrien Dami
is completing his PhD at the Institut d’histoire de la Réformation at the University of Geneva, where he has been assistant-doctoral fellow from 2019 to 2025. His research consists of an in-depth study of publishing in seventeenth- century Geneva, based on numerous unpublished archival sources, as well as on the close examination and reading of the books themselves. His dissertation will shed light on a period too often neglected in both the history of publishing and the history of the Reformation, focusing on the institutional management of printing, censorship, religious publishing and clandestine books. He has published articles on these subjects, with a particular interest in editorial practices and strategies, such as fake imprints, and the specific status and reputation of the Church of Geneva in the seventeenth century.
Vigdis Andrea Baugstø Evang
is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute writing a thesis titled Printing Plague Knowledge. Early Printed Plague Tracts (1472–1520), and is also co-editor of two upcoming volumes of ACTA, the journal of the Norwegian Institute in Rome, and co-editor of Arr, the Norwegian Journal of Intellectual History.
Laura Incollingo
is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the project COMLAWEU, based at the University of St Andrews. Her first book, Political engagement and popular print in Spanish Naples (1503–1707), was published by Brill in 2024. Her research interests cover the history of popular culture and popular print, as well as the study of information culture in Italy, particularly Southern Italy, during the early modern period. She is also interested in the history of communication between State and Citizen, particularly the intersections between orality and written culture. Within the COMLAWEU project her research focuses on Italy and Spain.
Jeff Jarvis
is the Emeritus Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a Visiting Professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism. He is the author of seven books, including The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine (both Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), The Web We Weave (Basic Books, 2024), and upcoming, Hot Type (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).
Geoff Kemp
is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Auckland. He gained his PhD at King’s College, Cambridge. His research interests embrace intellectual history, book history, and politics and media, with particular attention to John Locke and his circle(s) and historical ideas of freedom of expression and censorship. His publications include an account of Locke’s writings on liberty of the press in John Locke: Literary and Historical Writings (2019), the edited volume Censorship Moments (2014), and co-editorship of the four-volume Censorship and the Press, 1580–1720 (2009). Recent work includes ‘John Locke and Élie Bouhéreau: An Encounter’, in Élie Bouhéreau: the Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee (2025); ‘Freedom of Expression, the Enlightenment and the Liberal Tradition’ in The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship (2024); ‘Legal Contexts: Licensing, Censorship and Censure’ in The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Vol. 1 (2023) (with Jason McElligott); and ‘Politics, Law and Constructive Authorship: John Freke and “The Most Infamous Libel That Ever Was Written”,’ Huntington Library Quarterly (2021).
Wojciech Kordyzon
PhD, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw. His research interests include early modern literature and the book history of Central Europe, particularly Poland-Lithuania and Prussia. He has been focusing on how Renaissance and Reformation ideas were spread and disseminated in the sixteenth-century printing centres run by multilingual communities of dissidents. Investigating the impact of Protestantism on the vernacular book production in the Duchy of Prussia, he is currently finalising the project Beyond Propaganda: Polish Publishing Programme in Königsberg as a Project of Religious and Cultural Education (ca. 1544–1575) financed by the National Science Centre in Kraków, Poland.
Ian Maclean
is an Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies of the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an emeritus Fellow of the British Academy, and an honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews. He works on the intellectual traditions of the higher disciplines of theology, law and medicine, the history of interpretation, and book history. His most recent publications are Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020) and (edited with Dimitri Levitin) The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age (Brill, 2021). His earlier writings on the history of the book include Learning in the marketplace; essays in the history of early modern books, (Brill, 2009) and Scholarship, Commerce, Religion: the learned book in the Ages of Confessions, 1560–1630 (Harvard University Press, 2012).
James McCall
is a part-time PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews where he holds a scholarship from the Universal Short Title Catalogue. His PhD thesis is entitled: Printing Persuasion: Early eighteenth-century advertising in provincial England and Dublin. In 2014 he graduated with a Masters in Publishing (with Distinction) from Kingston University London and has subsequently worked in a number of positions across the industry.
Michelle Michel
is a PhD student and recipient of the Stanley Ray Scholarship at the University of Birmingham. Her forthcoming thesis focuses on the Early Modern printer- publisher John Danter and his extant printed texts.
Jennifer K. Nelson
is the Senior Reference Librarian at the Robbins Collection in Religious and Civil Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. She holds a Master’s degree in Italian from UCLA, a Master’s degree in both Classics and Library and Information Science from the University of Kentucky and a PhD in Latin and Roman Studies from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century Rome, the author Gian Vittorio Rossi, humanism, neo-Latin, Classical reception, and book production and trade in Europe during the Catholic Reform period (1545–1648). Her translation and commentary of Rossi’s Eudemiae libri decem was published in 2021 by Narr Verlag, and she is currently collaborating on a translation and commentary of Rossi’s Pinacotheca.
Chelsea Reutcke
is the Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies in the Department of History at the University of Utah where she teaches courses on sixteenth and seventeenth- century Britain and serves as the assistant editor for the Journal of British Studies. She achieved her PhD in Reformation Studies from the University of St Andrews in 2020. Her main fields of interest are post-Reformation Catholicism, book history, and early modern Britain. She also works in digital humanities and memory studies. Her first monograph, Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660–1688: The Cross-Confessional World of Later Stuart Print Culture (under contract with Boydell and Brewer) addresses the cross- confessional nature of the clandestine trade in Catholic books, from the people who laboured for it to the spaces within which it operated.
Isabelle Riepe
is finishing her PhD dissertation in history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her dissertation, ‘The material conditions of Weltliteratur: global connections of a literary idea’ connects material culture studies with book history. Her interests include the intellectual, economic, political and cultural developments of the German and Central European book industries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Renae Satterley
has been working at Middle Temple since 2006, when she was appointed Rare Books Librarian. After various promotions she was made head of the Library in 2016. In 2024 she completed her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis was entitled ‘The Great Book of the World: the formation and use of the library of Robert Ashley (1565–1641)’. Prior to her PhD she had published various papers on Ashley’s library, and has also contributed articles on legal librarianship. She completed her MLIS at McGill University (Montreal) in 2004, and for one year was bibliographer for the Norman Waddleton collection at Emmanuel College Cambridge. For over fifteen years she has been volunteering once a year to catalogue the collections of the seminary library in Montefiascone, Italy, founded by Marcantonio Barbarigo circa 1686.
John Sibbald
has a long association with the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He has spoken at USTC conferences and workshops and contributed chapters to volumes in the Library of the Written Word series on the sale of the library of Nicolas Heinsius, the Revd. Dr. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and the initial impact of information technology on the Scottish legal system. He is currently working on a check list of books published by subscription in England in the seventeenth century.
Natale Vacalebre
is Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Alcalá. His research focuses on the material reception of printed texts in the early modern period, the history of religious libraries, and the history of book collecting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the founder and managing editor of the online journal Bibliotheca Dantesca published by the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored numerous articles on the history of books and libraries and the monograph Come le armadure e l’armi (2016), a comprehensive history of early modern Jesuit libraries. His new book, provisionally titled Dante’s People: Reading the Divine Comedy in the Early Modern Age, is currently under review at the University of Notre Dame Press.
Heide Warncke
is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. The title of her dissertation is “The Amsterdam Hebrew Printing Industry in the 17th Century and the Impact of Intellectual, Economic, and Religious Developments on Hebrew Printing”. She is the curator of the library Ets Haim - Livraria Montezinos in Amsterdam, the oldest active Jewish library in the World. Ets Haim is part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.
Elise Watson
is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2022, where she also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant with the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. She has published widely on print, gender and early modern Catholicism, and more recently novel approaches to digital and enumerative bibliography that consider inclusive dimensions of gender and sexuality. Her first edited collection, Gender and the Book Trades, alongside Jessica Farrell-Jobst, was published in Brill’s Library of the Written Word series in 2025. Her current project examines business relationships and collaborations between women in the first age of the printed book.
Arthur der Weduwen
is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-Director and Project Manager 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 is the author of six 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 (co-authored with Andrew Pettegree, Yale University Press, 2019), The Library, A Fragile History (also with Andrew Pettegree, Profile, 2021) and State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age (Oxford UP, 2023). At present he is also the Principal Investigator of the COMLAWEU (Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500–1750) project at St Andrews (2024–2028).
Maria Zukovs
recently completed her PhD in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on Dublin press coverage of the French Revolution, between 1788 and 1794. Maria’s project seeks to understand what, if any, impact the French Revolution had on contemporaneous Dublin society, politics and culture, looking beyond heavily studied figures such as Theobald Wolfe Tone and the Society of United Irishmen. She has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Society for the Study of French History, the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and Marsh’s Library.