Notes on Contributors
András Bándi
is an assistant lecturer at the Department of History, Heritage Studies and Protestant Theology of the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania. He specialises in Transylvanian Lutheran Ministry egodocuments, microhistory of Lutheran parishes and consistories and Church minority policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Jakub Basista
is a Polish historian working at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research interests concentrate on English seventeenth century social and religious history. He is author of two books (in Polish) and over one hundred publications, as well as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, member of the Renaissance Society of America, Society for Reformation Studies, Society for the Study of Emotions in History and REFORC.
Michael Green
is a university professor at the Filip Friedman Centre for Jewish Studies and director of the Centre for Self-Narratives at the University of Lodz. He specialises in religious culture, with focus on early modern religious minorities and interreligious dialogue, and a special interest in egodocuments and early modern privacy. He is the co-founder of the International Egodocumental Network in 2023. He authored (among others) The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638–1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant (2013); Le Grand Tour 1701–1703. Lettres de Henry Bentinck et de son précepteur Paul Rapin-Thoyras, à Hans Willem Bentinck (2021); An Interreligious Dialogue: Portrayal of Jews in Dutch French-Language Periodicals (1680–1715) (2022) and the co-editor of Brill series Studies in the History of Privacy (founding editor), and Egodocuments and History.
Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi
is an associate professor at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. She has a Ph.D. in History (2017, University of the Basque Country) and in Law (2020, Public University of Navarre). Her research is focused on Basque and Spanish History during the fifteenth–eighteenth centuries. Her main research interests are families, kinship, divorces, domestic workers and servants, writing and translation, notaries, women and nuns.
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
is an assistant professor at University of Lodz, Poland, deputy editor of Multicultural Shakespeare, and the President of the Polish Shakespeare Association. She has published on Shakespeare in performance and translation, early modern women and the cultural history of emotions.
Katarzyna Kuras
is a university professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She is a historian specialising in the history of the seventeenth–eighteenth century. She works on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon period, with a particular interest in client relations, patronage, and the significance of magnates’ courts in the then political and cultural reality. The second area of her interest is the eighteenth-century French court, particularly in the times of Louis XV. She is the author of Współpracownicy i klienci Augusta A. Czartoryskiego w czasach saskich [Collaborators and Clients of August A. Czartoryski in the Saxon Era] (2010) and Dwór królowej Marii Leszczyńskiej. Ludzie, pieniądze i wpływy [The Court of Queen Maria Leszczyńska: People, Money, and Influences] (2018). At present, she works on cultural connections between the eighteenth-century European courts, with a particular emphasis on the relations between Paris and Dresden in the times of Maria Josepha of Saxony, the daughter of Augustus III of Poland and the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France.
Bernadetta Manyś
is a university professor at the Department of Early Modern History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her main research interests focus on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with a particular emphasis on the history of the society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (bourgeoisie and nobility) in the early modern era. She is the author of the book Uroczystości rodzinne w Wilnie za panowania Augusta III (1733–1763) [Family celebrations in Vilnius during the reign of Augustus III (1733–1763)] (2014) and the editor of two diaries of St. John’s Church in Vilnius (2 vols., 2018).
Joanna Orzeł
is an assistant professor at the Department of Early Modern History, University of Lodz in Poland. Her main scientific interests focus on the history of the culture of the nobility within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and the history of travel in the early modern era. She is the author of the book Historia – tradycja – mit w pamięci kulturowej szlachty Rzeczypospolitej w XVI–XVIII wieku [History – Tradition – Myth on the Cultural Memory of Noblemen in the Commonwealth of the 16th–18th centuries] (2016), and co-editor of the diary of Józef Jerzy Hylzen’s journey through Europe in the years 1752–1754 (2013).
François-Joseph Ruggiu
is Professor of Early Modern History at Sorbonne University and a Fellow of the Maison française d’Oxford. He specialises in European and colonial social history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has worked extensively on French personal writings of the early modern period, particularly from the perspective of the formation of personal identities and the self, and has led, during the 2000s, a research network on this topic.
Robert T. Tomczak
is a historian and a fellow researcher at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is a former recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (post-doc at Basel University 2019/2020). His research interests include Polish and Czech history; the history of universities; peregrinatio academica in early modern times; alba amicorum; the history of Polish-Irish relations, as well as biography, genealogy and heraldry. He specialises in the analysis of late medieval and early modern historical sources. He is the author of Kontakty edukacyjne Polaków z uniwersytetami praskimi w XVI–XVIII wieku [Early Modern Education of the Poles at Universities in Prague] (2021) and co-author (with Adam A. Kucharski) of East Central Europe and Ireland Political, Economic, and Social Interconnections, 1000–1850 (2024).
Nataliia Voloshkova
is associate professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She has been a Visiting Researcher in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University (2022–2024). Her research interests focus on the Bluestocking network and British women’s life writing in the long eighteenth century. She is the author of Bluestockings and Travel Accounts: Reading, Writing and Collecting (2021) and a number of publications about Mary Hamilton’s life and activities. One of her recent publications is “Letters, Poems, Flowers, and Bluestocking Friendship: Mary Hamilton’s Collage-Biography of Mary Delany”, in The Review of English Studies (2023).
Aleksandra Ziober
is an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław, specialising in early modern history, social communication, and the political culture of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with a strong emphasis on elite family networks and international contacts. In 2019, she was awarded the Minister of Science and Higher Education’s scholarship for outstanding young scientists in Poland, a recognition of her academic excellence. She has led several research projects, including two funded by the Polish National Science Center. She is the author of several publications, including the monograph Postawy elit Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego wobec elekcji Władysława IV Wazy i Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego [The Attitudes of the Elites of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Towards the Elections of Ladislaus IV Vasa and Michał Korybut Wisniowiecki] (2020).