Notes on the Editors
Mette Birkedal Bruun
PhD (2000), dr.theol. (2017), is Professor of Church History at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2017, she has been director of the Centre for Privacy Studies, funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. Her research interests include religiously motivated withdrawal from the world in the monastic movement and early modern devotion. She has authored The Unfamiliar Familiar: Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626–1700) between Withdrawal and Engagement (2017) and Parables: Bernard of Clairvaux’s Mapping of Spiritual Topography (2007) and edited, among other volumes, The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order (2013), Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period I (with David Cowling, 2011) and Negotiating Heritage: Memories of the Middle Ages (with Stephanie Glaser, 2008).
Michaël Green
is university professor at the University of Łódź, and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. He has held research and teaching positions at the University of Geneva, the IEG-Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, and in the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He specialises in history of education and daily life, nobility, and the history of religious minorities. Among his publications are: The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638–1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant (2015); Le Grand Tour 1701–1703. Lettres de Henry Bentinck, vicomte de Woodstock, et de son précepteur Paul Rapin-Thoyras, à Hans Willem Bentinck, comte de Portland (2021); he has edited a collection of articles of the late Myriam Yardeni, Minorités et mentalités religieuses en Europe moderne (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle): L’exemple des huguenots (2018).
Lars Cyril Nørgaard
received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen. He was awarded an international postdoctoral fellowship from the Independent Research Foundation Denmark and has been Directeur d’études invité at EPHE, Section des Sciences Historiques. Currently, he is assistant professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies and the Church History Section at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include the tension between religious seclusion and societal engagement, the relationship between manuscript text, print, paratext, and image, and the ambiguous nature of pre-modern privacy. He has published widely on early modern culture, focusing on French and Danish devotional culture of the seventeenth century.