Fernanda Alfieri
is a researcher in early modern history at the University of Bologna and fellow of the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trent. Her main field of research is early modern moral discourse on sexuality, and, more recently, the history of science and the relationship between mind and body up to the threshold of the twentieth century. She is the author of Nella camera degli sposi. Tomás Sánchez, il matrimonio, la sessualità (secoli xvi–xvii) (2010); and Veronica e il diavolo. Storia di un esorcismo a Roma (2021).
Paolo Astorri
is Postdoctoral Researcher in Legal History at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. His main field of research is early modern interactions between Catholic and Lutheran theologians and jurists. His book Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520–1720), published in Brill’s new series Law and Religion in the Early Modern Period, won the REFORC book award in 2020.
Harald E. Braun
is Reader in European History at the University of Liverpool (UK). His main field of research is early modern Iberian political thought and culture, especially the relationship between scholastic moral theology, humanism, and reason of state. His publications include Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (2007); (with E. Vallance) Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe (2004); (with E. Vallance) The Renaissance Conscience (2011); (with L. Vollendorf) Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic (2013); (with J. Pérez-Magallón) The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque (2014); and Jesuits as Counsellors in the Early Modern World (2017).
Paolo Broggio
is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of Humanities at Roma Tre University (Italy). He currently investigates the political meaning of post-Tridentine doctrinal controversies, the political-diplomatic relations between Madrid and Rome, and peacemaking strategies in early modern Italy. He is the author of Governare l’odio. Pace e giustizia criminale nell’Italia moderna (secoli xvi–xvii) (2021); La teologia e la politica. Controversie dottrinali, Curia romana e Monarchia spagnola tra Cinque e Seicento (2009); and Evangelizzare il mondo. Le missioni della Compagnia di Gesù tra Europa e
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen
is Managing Director (International) of the Acton Institute of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He currently serves as Chairman of the board of the Chase Foundation of Virginia, and is a member of the John Templeton Foundation, The World Charity Foundation and the Templeton Religion Trust. He is also on the governing board of several think tanks including The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Fraser Institute (both Canada); the Fundación Internacional para La Libertad (Madrid); and Grove City College (Pennsylvania). He has been member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1980, and President of the Philadelphia Society (2017–2018). His book on late-scholastic economics Faith and Liberty (1986) has been translated into Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Czech, Italian, Slovenian and Spanish.
Erik De Bom
is Research Fellow at ku Leuven, and is also affiliated to lectio (Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance). He has published widely on the history of political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, early-modern intellectual history and Renaissance humanism. His most recent publication (with Randall Lesaffer and Werner Thomas) is Early Modern Sovereignties. Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands (2021).
Wim Decock
is Research Professor in the Department of Roman Law and Legal History at ku Leuven and Part-Time Associate Professor at the University of Liège. He is the author of the prize-winning books Theologians and Contract Law (2013) and Le marché du mérite (2019). In 2014, he was awarded the H.M.-Leibnitz-Prize by the German Research Foundation for his interdisciplinary research on the interactions between early modern legal, economic and religious thought.
Fernando Domínguez Reboiras
has been scientific collaborator at the Raimundus-Lullus Institute, University of Freiburg since 1970. From 1979 to 2008, he supervised and co-ordinated the critical edition of Ramon Llull’s works in Latin, Raimundi Lulli Opera Latina, as part of the Corpus Christianorum project. He edited several volumes of Llull’s
Thomas Duve
is Managing Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly mpi for European Legal History) and Professor for Comparative Legal History at the Faculty of Law of the Goethe University Frankfurt. He works on the legal history of the imperial spaces of the Iberian monarchies in the early modern period and modernity, with a particular interest in the history of canon law and moral theology – especially concerning the School of Salamanca – and in the history of knowledge creation in the field of law. Other fields of interest include the history and methodology of legal history. He is the editor of the journal Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History as well as the book series Global Perspectives on Legal History and Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds.
Petr Dvořák
is a senior researcher and Head of Department at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He also teaches logic and philosophy at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacky University in Olomouc. His research focuses on medieval and early-modern scholastic philosophy and logic in dialogue with today’s Anglo-Saxon analytical tradition.
Giovanni Gellera
is currently Scientific Collaborator in the Swiss National Science Foundation project A Disregarded Past: Medieval Scholasticism and Reformed Thought (2020–2024) and based at the Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva, Switzerland. His main research interests are Reformed Scholasticism, the relation between early modern theology and philosophy, Scotism, Cartesianism, Scottish philosophy, and the history of universities. Recent publications include (with A. Broadie) James Dundas: The Idea of Moral Philosophy (1679). Critical Edition and Translation (2021); and the special issue “Contexts of Religious Tolerance: New Perspectives from Early Modern Britain and Beyond,” Global Intellectual History 5.2 (2019).
Juan Manuel Gómez París
is High School Principal at Colegio Bilingüe Richmond and casual lecturer at the Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Bogotá, Colombia. He specialises in early
Christophe Grellard
is Directeur d’études (full professor) at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, psl university, and a member of the Laboratoire d’études des monothéismes (cnrs). His research focuses on late medieval philosophy and on late medieval and early modern transformations of moral theology. His publications include De la certitude volontaire. Débats nominalistes sur la foi à la fin du moyen âge (2014); and La possibilità dell’errore. Pensare la tolleranza nel medioevo (2020).
Miroslav Hanke
is currently Associate Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia. He specializes in the history of late medieval and post-medieval scholastic logic and natural philosophy and the philosophy of logic.
Ruth Hill
is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of two books and forty articles. Currently, she is working on two book projects: a history of Aryanism and white supremacy in the Americas from the 19th century to the digital age (Incas, Aztecs, and Other White Men: A Hemispheric History of Hate), and a comparative analysis of colonial racial and natural histories (Reckoning with Race in New Worlds).
Harro Höpfl
was Research Professor in the Business School, University of Essex before retiring in 2014. He is particularly interested in the political thought of Luther, Calvin, and the Jesuits, and in scholastic and humanist strands in early modern political thinking. More generally, he studies the history of the concepts of reason of state, authority, fundamental law, contract, ideology, accountability and bureaucracy. He is currently working on the rhetoric of ‘the people’ in the political thought of the English Civil War. His principal publications are Jesuits and the State: The Political Doctrines of the Society of Jesus 1540–1630 (2004); The Christian Polity of Jean Calvin (1985); and Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority (1991).
Nils Jansen
is Professor of Civil Law and Director of the Institute for Legal History at the University of Münster. Currently, he is the spokesperson of the Excellence
Vincenzo Lavenia
is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Bologna, Italy. His research topics include the Roman Inquisition, Catholic moral theology, doctrines of war and catechisms for soldiers, witchcraft in Italy, medical law, and sexuality and the Christian tradition. His publications include L’infamia e il perdono. Tributi, pene e confessione nella teologia morale della prima età moderna (2004); (with A. Prosperi and J. Tedeschi) Dizionario storico dell’Inquisizione, 4 vols. (2010); Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna (2018); (with C. Zwierlein) Fruits of Migration: Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550–1620 (2018); Storia della Chiesa, vol. 3, L’età moderna (2020); and (with F. Benigno) Peccato o crimine. La Chiesa di fronte alla pedofilia (2021).
Thomas Marschler
is Professor of Dogmatics at the Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg. Among his main interests are the history of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, Principles of Dogmatics, Trinitarian theology, and Eschatology. He is the author of several books, including Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Christi in der scholastischen Theologie des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts (2003) and Die spekulative Trinitätslehre des Francisco Suárez S.J. in ihrem philosophisch-theologischen Kontext (2007).
Fabio Monsalve
is Associate Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in 2002 with a dissertation on the economic thought of the Jesuit theologian Juan de Lugo (1583–1660). He has since published widely on later Spanish scholastic economic and ethical thought.
Thomas Pink
is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. He is the author of Self-Determination (2017), has produced an edition of Francisco Suárez’s moral and
Rudolf Schuessler
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His areas of research cover probabilism, early modern scholastic thought, theories of justice, and ethics in negotiations. He has recently published The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition (2019).
Daniel Schwartz
is Associate Professor at the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on medieval and early modern ethics and political philosophy as well as contemporary discussions concerning just war theory. He is the author of Aquinas on Friendship (2007) and The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics: Civil Life, War and Conscience (2019), and the editor of Interpreting Suárez: Critical Essays (2011).
Leen Spruit
is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at Radboud University. His research interests are the history of cognitive psychology from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, and Catholic censorship of science and natural philosophy. His current research focuses on the reception of corpuscular philosophy among Catholic ecclesiastics and Church authorities. His publications include Il problema della conoscenza in Giordano Bruno (1988), Species intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge (2 vols., 1994–1995), and (with U. Baldini) Catholic Church and Modern Science: Documents from the Archives of the Roman Congregation, part i: Sixteenth-Century Documents (2009).
Toon Van Houdt
is Associate Professor of Latin at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has published extensively on the history of humanist and late scholastic political, economic and ethical thought in early modern times. He is the author (with Wim Decock) of Leonardus Lessius: traditie en vernieuwing [Leonardus Lessius: Tradition and Renewal] (2005); and editor (with E. De Bom, M. Janssens and J. Papy) of (Un)masking the Realities of Power. Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe (2011).
is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Her main line of research explores the impact of confessionalization on writing and reading practices, the principles governing the surveillance of textuality in the long 16th century, theory of censorship, and the expurgatory practices of the Spanish monarchy. She has received the icrea Acadèmia Research Award (2009, 2014, 2019), the Mercator Professur of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, 2012).
Andreas Wagner
is research fellow on the project “The School of Salamanca. A digital collection of sources and a dictionary of its juridical-political language,” Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. He is also Digital Humanities Officer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt/Main. His research interests include the phenomenology of political and legal institutions and practices and their reflection in philosophical approaches. Relevant publications include “Francisco de Vitoria and the Global Commonwealth,” in: R. Domingo and J. Witte (eds.) Christianity and Global Law, (2020), 72–83; and “Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili on the Legal Character of the Global Commonwealth,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 31 (2011), 565–582.