Notes on Contributors
John Sellars
is a Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works widely in the history of philosophy, with a focus on Stoicism and its later reception. His recent books include Hellenistic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Marcus Aurelius (Routledge, 2020). He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition (Routledge, 2016).
Paul Richard Blum
is T.J. Higgins, S.J., Chair in Philosophy (emeritus) at Loyola University Maryland. He specializes in Renaissance and early modern scholastic philosophy. Among his most recent publications are Nicholas of Cusa on Peace, Religion, and Wisdom in Renaissance Context (2018) and Gasparo Contarini, De immortalitate animae â On the Immortality of the Soul (2020).
Elisabeth Blum
earned her Ph.D. at the Renaissance Philosophy Institute at the University of Munich. She taught philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, and at Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic). She is editor and translator, among others, of Giordano Bruno Spaccio della bestia trionfante, Italian/German (Hamburg: Meiner Verlag).
Jo Coture
is a doctoral student at Ghent University and member of the Sarton Centre for History of Science. His research focuses on the atomic theory of the early modern French philosopher and scientist Pierre Gassendi.
Guido Giglioni
is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Macerata, Italy. His research concentrates on the interplay of life and imagination in the early modern period, a subject on which he has written and edited several contributions. His publications include two books on Jan Baptista van Helmont (Milan, 2000) and Francis Bacon (Rome, 2011).
Orlando Reade
is an Early Career Fellow at the London Renaissance Seminar. He has a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University.
Sophie Raux
is Professor of Early Modern Art History at Université Lumière of Lyon and Head of the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes. Her research and publications focus primarily on early modern visual culture, and French, Flemish, and Dutch art. Her main areas of research include the history of art markets and collecting, circulation, and consumption of visual artefacts in the Low Countries, social and cultural construction of art value during the Ancien Régime, digital art history. Her main publications include Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16thâ18th centuries (Brepols, 2014), co-edited with Neil De Marchi; à perte de vue. Les nouveaux paradigmes du visuel (Presses de Réel, 2015), co-edited with Daniel Dubuisson; Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries (15thâ17th centuries) (Brill, 2018); Watteau, Gersaint et le pont Notre-Dame à Paris au temps des Lumières: Les enjeux dâune restitution numérique (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, forthcoming 2021).
Damiano Acciarino
is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Università Caâ Foscari di Venezia. He works on Renaissance antiquarianism and the classical tradition. He has published three monographs (2020, 2018, 2012), one edited volume (2019), and many academic articles in this field.
Dalia Judovitz
is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor Emerita of French at Emory University where she taught seventeenth century French literature, culture and aesthetics as well as modern aesthetics. She is the author of several books on questions of subjectivity and representation in the early modern period, including, Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (Cambridge U Press, 1988) and The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (U of Michigan Press, 2001). She co-edited a book series with James I. Porter, The Body, in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism (U of Michigan Press, 1994â2004). Her books on modern aesthetics include, Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit (U of California Press, 1995), trans. into French, Déplier Duchamp: Passages de lâart (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2000) and Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company (U of Minnesota Press, 2010). Her publications on Georges de La Tour have been featured in articles and book chapters and include her book, Georges de La Tour and The Enigma of the Visible (Fordham U Press, 2018).
Ovanes Akopyan
is a research fellow at the University of Innsbruck. He has published extensively on Renaissance and early modern intellectual history and science, including Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Pico della Mirandolaâs Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and Its Reception (Brill, 2021).