Notes on Contributors
Renaud Adam
is a book historian of the early modern period, who earned his PhD in 2011 at the University of Liège. He is currently working for Arenberg Auctions (Brussels), an auction house specializing in old and rare books. Adam mainly publishes on the history of the book in the Southern Low Countries from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. He is the author of Vivre et imprimer dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux (des origines à la réforme) (2 vols., Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).
Martin Christ
is a postdoctoral researcher and junior fellow in the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies âReligion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formationsâ, funded by the German Research Foundation (FOR 2779). He is based at the Max- Weber-Centre of the University of Erfurt. He has published on confessional coexistence, conversions to Lutheranism and the history of Bohemia. He is currently working on death, burials and commemoration in German and English urban centres.
Jamie Cumby
is Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Linda Hall Library. She received her PhD and her MLitt in Book History from the University of St Andrews, where she worked on the USTC and MEI projects, and she is currently enrolled in the Masters of Library Science (MLIS) program at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on publishing and the transnational book trade in the sixteenth century, especially by publishing companies. She has published articles on early broadsheet publications in Lyon, and on the business activities of Luxembourg de Gabiano. Her current project explores the development of the Compagnie des Libraires of Lyon before the Wars of Religion.
Nora Epstein
is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Professors Bridget Heal and Andrew Pettegree. Her research traces the transmission of religious woodcuts and metalcuts during the English and Scottish Reformations. After receiving her masterâs in Library and Information Science (MLIS) at the University of Illinois, she earned a masterâs in Book History (M.Litt) from the University of St Andrews. She has worked in archives, paper conservation laboratories and special collections libraries; most recently as the Special Collections and Archives Librarian at DePaul University.
Helmer Helmers
is senior researcher in Dutch history at the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is the author of The Royalist Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). His current project, The Invention of Public Diplomacy, investigates the interaction between print and diplomacy in early modern Europe.
Jan Hillgärtner
is lecturer of German Language at Leiden University. His work focuses on the spread of the newspaper in seventeenth-century Germany and modes of reporting in the periodical press, as well as literary fame and its interplay with book advertisements and reviews in the press of the eighteenth century. Hillgärtner obtained his PhD in modern history from the University of St Andrews. He is currently working on a bibliography of German newspapers printed between 1605 and 1650.
Justyna KiliaÅczyk-ZiÄba
is assistant professor in book history and editing at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in Poland. She is the author of CzcionkÄ i piórem. Jan Januszowski w roli pisarza i tÅumacza (Krakow: Universitas, 2007), a monograph about a master-printer in 16th-century Krakow, and a book on printersâ devices in early modern Poland-Lithuania, Sygnety drukarskie w Rzeczypospolitej XVI wieku. ŹródÅa ikonograficzne i treÅci ideowe (Krakow: Societas Vistulana, 2015).
Nina Lamal
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humanities Cluster of the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She has published on Italian news report as well as histories on the Revolt in the Low Countries. Currently she is working the Habsburg authorities and Dutch rebels attempts at public diplomacy to gain support for their cause in the German states during the Revolt in the Netherlands.
Margaret Meserve
is Fabiano Collegiate Chair in Italian Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought (2008) and the forthcoming Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome. She has published numerous articles on Italian and French incunabula printing and has also translated Pius IIâs Commentaries for the I Tatti Renaissance Library.
Rachel Midura
is an assistant professor of digital history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She recently finished her dissertation at Stanford University, âMasters of the Post: Northern Italy and European Communications Networks, 1530â1730,â on early modern surveillance, espionage, and postal systems. In her research, she brings twenty-first-century understanding of media and social networks to the political and cultural history of the early modern period. Her work has appeared in collected volumes such as The Renaissance of Letters (London: Routledge, 2019) and Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (London: Routledge, 2018).
Gautier Mingous
is a member of the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA). He received his PhD in modern history from University Lumière Lyon 2 in 2015. Mingous has published several articles on the history of information networks in Lyon at the turn of the French Wars of Religion, and on the political power of letter-writing. He is the editor of a volume on civic government in times of crisis during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Gouverner les villes en temps de crise. Urgences militaires et sanitaires, XVIeâXVIIe siècles (Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2019).
Ernesto E. Oyarbide MaganÌa
has a dual Licenciatura in Spanish Philology and Journalism from the University of Navarra (Spain), and a Master of Studies in Literature and Arts from the University of Oxford (with distinction). He is on the last stages of a DPhil in History at the University of Oxford. Ernesto is interested in the study of early modern diplomacy, Anglo-Iberian relations, Renaissance libraries, print culture and intellectual history.
Caren Reimann
is a contributing editor and research fellow at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Lower Saxony. She is the author of Die arabischen Evangelien der Typographia Medicea. Wirtschaftshistorische Hintergründe â kunsthistorische Perspektiven (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020) and Egon Rheinberger â Die Skizzen der Italienreise 1897 (Schaan: Edition eupalinos, 2020).
Chelsea Reutchke
is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews studying Catholic print networks in England during the Restoration era. Her research looks at the intersection of religious and print history. She was recently published in Studies in Church History on the interests of enforcers of the 1662 Licensing Act. She also serves as a bibliographic worker for BBIH and research intern for the Open Virtual Worldsâ âSt Andrews 1559â digital reconstruction project.
Celyn David Richards
was awarded his PhD by the department of theology and religion at Durham University in 2020. His thesis explored the political, commercial and industrial developments that prompted the dramatic increase in printed output in England during the short reign of Edward VI, 1547â1553.
Paolo Sachet
obtained his PhD from the Warburg Institute in 2015. He is visiting lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Milano and postdoctoral fellow at the Institut dâhistoire de la Réformation, at the University of Geneva. Sachet has published various articles on Renaissance scholarship and the book world. He co-edited The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade (London: Warburg Institute, 2018) and authored Publishing for the Popes: The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
Forrest Strickland
(PhD, University of St Andrews) is adjunct professor of church history at Boyce College, Louisville. He is the author of, among other works, the forthcoming Protestant Ministers and their Books in the Dutch Republic, 1607â1700, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming) and the article âTeachers of Christâs Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Ageâ published in the volume Communities of Print (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming). In 2018 Strickland was Arminius Fellow at the Scaliger Institute at Leiden University.
Ramon Voges
is historian of early modern Europe. He obtained his PhD in 2017 at the University of Paderborn. His dissertation on the Hogenberg prints was published as Das Auge der Geschichte. Der Aufstand der Niederlande und die Französischen Religionskriege im Spiegel der Bildberichte Franz Hogenbergs (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Voges is deputy head of the German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library.
Arthur der Weduwen
is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews and Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He researches and writes on the history of the Dutch Republic, books, news, libraries and early modern politics. He is the author of 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 UP, 2019) and two books on early newspaper advertising in the Netherlands (both Brill, 2020). His latest project is The Library: A Fragile History, co-written with Andrew Pettegree and published by Profile in 2021.