Notes on Contributors
Paula Almeida Mendes
was awarded her PhD in Portuguese Literature and Culture in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Porto with a thesis entitled: âPorque aqui vem retratados os passos por vas se caminha para o Ceoâ: a escrita ea edição de âVidasâ de santos e de âVidasâ devotas em Portugal (seculos XVIâXVIII) (2013). She is a researcher in CITCEM (University of Porto) in the group âSociability, Practices and Forms of Religious Feelingâ. Her research is focused on the history and literature of spirituality and the history of books and reading. She is the author of several studies of early modern Iberian hagiography and sacred biography.
Nuria Aranda GarcÃa
is currently a Spanish teacher at the Ãcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. She obtained her PhD in Spanish Literature at the University of Zaragoza in 2020. She is member of the research project COMEDIC. Catálogo de obras medievales impresas en Castellano (1471â1601), directed by MarÃa Jesús Lacarra, and has participated in numerous international conferences, both in Spain and in Europe. More recently, her research has focused on eastern tales in Spanish chapbooks from the middle ages to the nineteenth century. She is the author of a number of papers which explore the reworking of the Historia de los siete sabios de Romaâs through to the modern age.
Ãngela Barreto Xavier
is Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS_UL). She holds a PhD in History & Civilisation from the European University Institute (2003), a Master in Political and Cultural History from the New University of Lisbon (1995) and a History and Art History Degree from the New University of Lisbon (1990). Her research interests include the history of political ideas and the cultural history of early-modern empires, namely the problems related to political culture, visual culture, identity, power and knowledge, and cultural geopolitics. She has published extensively on these issues, including the books Afonso VI (with Pedro Cardim, 2006), A Invenção de Goa. Poder Imperial e Conversões Culturais nos séculos XVI e XVII (2008), Catholic Orientalism. Portuguese Empire. Indian Knowledge (with Ines Zupanov, 2015), and the edited volumes O Governo dos Outros. Poder e Diferença no Império Português (with Cristina Nogueira da Silva, 2016) and Monarquias Ibéricas em Perspectiva Comparada (sécs. XVIâXVIII). Dinâmicas Imperiais e Circulação de Modelos Administrativos (with Federico Palomo and Roberta Stumpf, 2018).
Helena Carvajal González
is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Literatures and Bibliography at the Faculty of Documentation Sciences at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Prior to this, Helena was an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Medieval Art for eight years (also at the Complutense). Her research activity has been oriented towards the visual art of the book from an interdisciplinary perspective that addresses the aesthetic, material, functional and devotional aspects of the cultural artefact. This research has been presented in papers at leading national and international conferences, as well as being published in chapters in edited volumes, and in articles in leading academic journals. Helena has also been involved in two competitive national research projects.
Domenico Ciccarello
serves as a librarian in the University of Palermo, Italy, where he was born and educated until getting his first degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and Spanish) in 1992. Then he took a second degree in Librarianship at the University of Rome âLa Sapienzaâ in 2001, and a MPhil in Early Printed Books at the University of Siena in 2004, where he also completed his PhD in Book History in 2012 with a dissertation consisting of an annotated census of seventeenth-century books printed in Sicily. He has recently conducted post-doctoral research on the press and book trade in Sicily in the seventeenth century, and has participated in academic research projects on sixteenth-century booklists of Italian monastic libraries, and the mobility of Italian publishers, printers, booksellers from the beginning of the printed book to 1700. He has contributed to several LIS committees and book history conferences in Italy and abroad, and has contributed with a number of papers in miscellaneous books and scientific journals. He is part of the editorial board of LIS journals in Italy, and is a member of the Italian Society for Bibliography and Librarianship (SISBB).
Don W. Cruickshank
was born in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, and brought up in Aberdeen, where he went to University and studied Spanish under Terence May and Peter Dunn. From Aberdeen he went to Cambridge to do a PhD on Calderón, under the supervision of Edward Wilson. In 1968 he was elected to a research fellowship in Emmanuel College, remaining there until he was appointed to a lectureship at University College Dublin, where in due course he became Professor of Spanish. He retired in 2007. His publications include a facsimile collection of early Calderón editions (with J.E. Varey, 1973, 19 vols), a study of the classical Spanish plays collected by the diarist Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepysâs Spanish Plays, with E.M. Wilson, 1980), a biography of Calderón (Don Pedro Calderón, 2009), and numerous articles on classical Spanish plays, the book trade and typography in Spain. He is a member of the Grupo de Investigación Calderón de la Barca (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), of the Bibliographical Society, the Royal Irish Academy, and a Miembro Correspondiente Extranjero de la Real Academia Española.
Thomas Cummins
is The Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He taught for eleven years at the University of Chicago and was the Director of The Center of Latin American Studies from 1998â2001. He was also the acting Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University 2003â04 and chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, 2005â2012. His research and teaching focuses on Pre-Columbian and Latin American Colonial Art. Recent research interests include a study of the only three extensively illustrated manuscripts from Peru (La Vida y Obra de Martin de Murua edited by Thomas Cummins and Juan Ossio, 2019); and the study of late Pre-Columbian systems of knowledge and representation, especially Inka, and their impact on the formation of sixteenth and seventeenth century colonial artistic and social forms (Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Kero Vessels 2002 and Native Traditions in the Colonial World 1998). He has also published essays on New World town planning, the early images of the Inca, miraculous images in Colombia, and on the relationship between visual and alphabetic literacy in the conversion of Indians (Más allá de la ciudad letrada: letramientos indÃgenas en los Andes co-authored with Joanne Rappaport 2017).
Isabel Cristina DÃez Ménguez
is currently a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of books Julia de Asensi Laiglesia (1849â1921) (Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 2006, 94 p.), Cuentistas madrileñas: desde sus orÃgenes hasta nuestros dÃas (Madrid: Ediciones La LibrerÃa, 2006, 366 p.), Libros de Horas en la Biblioteca Histórica âMarqués de Valdecillaâ (Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2012, 262 p.), Bio-bibliografÃa comentada de Rosa Chacel (Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2017, 243 p.), and a book chapter âSobre tipos y tipografÃa en los inventarios del gremio de impresores y libreros del siglo XVI en Españaâ, in Doce siglos de materialidad del libro. Estudios sobre manuscritos e impresos entre los siglos VIII y XIX, Manuel José Pedraza Gracia (dir.), Helena Carvajal González and Camino Sánchez Oliveira (eds.) (Zaragoza: Presses of the University of Zaragoza, 2017, pp. 339â354). She has collaborated in numerous projects directed by Dr. MarÃa RocÃo Oviedo Pérez de Tudela, including âTelemática y edición. Rubén DarÃo: Archivos y Revistas del Modernismoâ (R&D Project. Ref. FFI2008-06924-C02-02 / FILO) and âLas revistas del modernismo hispánico. Bases de datos para una colaboración entre dos continentesâ [Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad. Ref. FFI2013-48178- (2-1-P)].
Kelly Donahue-Wallace
is Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas. She completed her undergraduate study at the University of California, Santa Cruz and her graduate degrees in Spanish colonial art history at the University of New Mexico. Her research addresses the history of prints in colonial Mexico with emphasis on perceptions of printed materials. Her publications include the 2017 book Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment (University of New Mexico Press) and articles in journals including Colonial Latin American Historical Review, The Americas, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and the Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. She is currently working on a book addressing the printmaking profession in eighteenth-century Mexico City.
Benjamin Hazard
is a Tutor at the School of History, University College Dublin. A graduate of University College Cork, he completed his doctoral studies in History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, after conducting archival research in Spain, Rome and Belgium. In 2008, he was awarded the Louvain 400 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin to compile previously unpublished research relating to the Franciscan historian and theologian, Luke Wadding. To date, the subject matter of Hazardâs publications includes correspondence of the early modern era between scholars in Italy, book merchants in France and their shared contacts.
MarÃa Eugenia López-Varea
is librarian of Early Printed Books at the Pontifical Comillas University in Madrid. She is also an associate professor in the Faculty of Philology of the Complutense University (Madrid), where she teaches the History of the Book and Transmission of Texts. She obtained her Masters in Documentation, Libraries and Archives Management, and has recently completed her doctorate â both at the Complutense. She is a member of the Working Group of Bibliographical Heritage of REBIUN (Network of University Libraries of Spain), and likewise of the Collective Catalogue Working Group of the Library Cooperation Council of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, on behalf of the Library of the Pontifical Comillas University. She is a member of I+D Research Project of the State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence (FFI2016-78245-P), financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and developed in the Faculty of Documentation Sciences at the Complutense, within the Project âBibliographic Repertoire of Spanish Incunabulaâ (REBIES). Likewise, she is a member of the Research Project âPhilological Study of the Latin classical texts transmitted in incunabula and post-incunabula printed in Spainâ (PGC2018-094609-B-I00 and FFI2015-67335-P), financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and developed in the Faculty of Philology of the National University of Distance Education (UNED). MarÃa Eugenia has written on the printing press and rare book history, the bibliographical heritage, typography and illustration, incunabula, Latin classical texts, and bibliography.
Manuel-José Pedraza-Gracia
was born in Zaragoza in 1959. Manuel José Pedraza Gracia has a degree in Philosophy and Letters, and received his doctorate in History from the University of Zaragoza in April 1993. He is currently Professor of Library and Information Science. From January 1979 to November 1989, he was Librarian of the University of Zaragoza. He is currently responsible for courses and workshops on early printed books at the University of Zaragoza in Jaca. He is editor in chief of the journal Titivillus: revista internacional sobre libro antiguo. From 2003 to 2010, Manuel José was a member of the Government of Aragonâs Advisory Committee on Libraries. He has published more than eighty works in monographs and journals on bibliography, bibliographic heritage, the history of books and reading, and early printed books.
Celeste Pedro
is a communications designer. She graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Porto, Portugal. Her main research interests are focused on typography and design. While working for ten years in design agencies, she completed her Masters in Design and Intermedia at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her studies on dictionary design led her closer to the field of typography and to engagement in various language courses, workshops and summer schools related to the textual publication and book production. Over the past few years, Celeste has specialised in early printed books and palaeography, launching historicaltype.eu in 2018, which was developed during her PhD research on the history of Portuguese typography in the early modern period. She is currently a research collaborator at the Instituto de Filosofia of the University of Porto, where she continues her work on early modern Portuguese authors and printers.
Benito Rial Costas
received his PhD in Spanish Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela and teaches Book History and Bibliography at the Complutense University of Madrid. His interests range widely across analytical bibliography, book history, the sociology of texts and typography. He is currently engaged in research and writing on the printing and book trade in the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Rial Costas has lectured in different European and American universities and research centers. He is a member of different research projects and scientific committees and has recently published the edited volume Aldo Manuzio en la España del Renacimiento (Madrid, 2019) and the special issue of Quaerendo âNew insights into an old issue: Book historical scholarship on the relationship between the Low Countries and Spain (1568â1648)â (2019).
Guadalupe RodrÃguez DomÃnguez
holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca. From 2012 to 2014, she developed a research project at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, focused on printing in Mexico during the sixteenth century. Research continues in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma of San Luis PotosÃ, where she is a Professor.
Jeremy Roe
is a translator and independent researcher affiliated with the Centro de Humanidades at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He was awarded his doctorate from the University of Leeds, and went on to work on a series of postdoctoral projects: âThe Library of the Count-Duke of Olivares: A Mirror of Power, Patronage, and Baroque Culture in Golden-Age Spainâ, funded by the AHRC; âExcesos de la nobleza de corte: usos de la violencia en la cultura aristocrática ibérica del seiscientos (1606â1665)â financed by the Gobierno de España; and most recently âRepresentations of political ideology and identity in the visual culture of Portugal and its empire (1621â1668)â supported with an FCT postdoctoral grant. He is currently a member of the international research project âRituais Públicos No Império Portuguêsâ. Jeremy is the author of various papers and articles, as well as co-editor of a series of volumes, addressing the intersections of Iberian visual, literary and book culture, above all regarding the representation of political and religious authority. In addition, he co-translated Francisco Pacheco, On Christian Iconography: Selections from The Art of Painting (1649) published by St Josephâs University Press.
MarÃa Sanz Julián
is a Professor at the University of Zaragoza (Department of English and German Philology), a role she has held since 2011. She has a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza (2006) and a degree in German Philology from the University of the Basque Country (2006). Her research has focused on Hispanic and German medieval literature, with a particular interest in the Trojan War and in the relationships between German and Spanish printing firms during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She has published several monographs, as well as numerous articles and chapters in international journals and volumes, not least a number of editions and studies of the Aragonese Crónica Troyana by Juan Fernández de Heredia (which emerged initially at the end of the fourteenth century) and the text of the same name printed by Juan de Burgos in 1490. She has also published on the connections between Pablo Hurus and the printing houses of southern Germany.
Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
is a lecturer in Spanish Literature at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Her current research interests include the Golden Age Spanish theatre and the Spanish and Portuguese book trade. She is co-editor, with Alexander S. Wilkinson, of Iberian Books Volumes II & III (2015) and with Fernando RodrÃguez-Gallego of Un fondo desconocido de comedias españolas impresas conservado en la biblioteca pública de Ãvora (con estudio detallado de las de Calderón de la Barca) (2016). She is currently researching the involvement of women in the early-modern Spanish and Portuguese book trades.
Alexander S. Wilkinson
is a Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He was born in Stirling and graduated with an MA in Modern History and an MLitt in Reformation Studies from the University of St Andrews before embarking on his PhD (2002) on the representation of Mary Queen of Scots in French Polemical Opinion (under Andrew Pettegree). In 2001, he was appointed Project Manager of the British Academy and AHRC-funded French Vernacular Book Project at St Andrews, before moving to Ireland in 2006 and joining the UCD School of History. He has recently completed Iberian Books, a ten-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to survey Spanish and Portuguese print before 1701. Sandy is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of several studies of the early modern European book world, including Mary Queen of Scots in French Public Opinion (Palgrave, 2004), Iberian Books (Brill, 2007, 2010, and 2018), as well as articles in journals such as French History, The Library, Quaerendo and Renaissance Studies. His next research project will look at ornamentation and illustration in the book world of sixteenth century Europe.
Neus Verger Arce
was appointed head of the Rare Books and Manuscript CRAI Library of the University of Barcelona in May 2010, having worked in the library since 1987. She studied Librarian Sciences in Barcelona, and she has continued her specialized training in rare books. Neusâ primary responsibilities in the CRAI Library concern the preservation, cataloguing and diffusion of the collection, one of the most important in Spain. She directed the database Printersâ devices, which launched in 1998 and has been active in encouraging collaboration between the library and other international projects such as Iberian Books and CERL.