Notes on Contributors
Magdalena Komorowska
is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research focuses on the history of printing in Poland in the late sixteenth and seventeenth century, especially on the milieu of book printers in Krakow and on the relationship between the printed book and the Catholic Reformation. She has published on various aspects of the history of the book in Poland-Lithuania.
Paolo Sachet
is Ambizione Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève. He has published articles on the impact of printed books on the intellectual history of early modern Europe, co-edited The Afterlife of Aldus (2018) and authored Publishing for the Popes: The Roman Curia and the Use of Printing, 1527–1555 (2020). He is also the editor in chief of AGAPE, a comprehensive database of Greek patristics editions (1460–1600).
Benito Rial Costas
is a professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research interests go across book culture and media, historiography, bibliography, digital humanities and typography. He has published in the fields of material bibliography, the sociology of texts, cultural history and literature. His recent publications include an edited collection Aldo Manuzio en la España del Renacimiento (2019), and the special issue of Quaerendo ‘New insights into an old issue: Book historical scholarship on the relationship between the Low Countries and Spain’ (2019).
Chelsea Reutcke
received her PhD in Reformation Studies from the University of St Andrews in 2020. Her thesis explored the print networks behind English Catholic books in the late seventeenth century. Her research interests pertain to the production, circulation, and reception of sixteenth and seventeenth-century British Catholic print. She worked for the Bibliography of British and Irish History and for Open Virtual Worlds, which produces digital reconstructions of historic sites.
Barbara Swanson
is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. She is the author of various articles on Catholic plainchant in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including on Giovanni Guidetti, female religious, and Counter-Reformation mission. Her interest in book history intersects with visual culture, in particular, how visual aspects of plainchant and its books reflect devotional and reform imperatives.
David Oldenhof
works at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is a research fellow at the HDC Centre of Religious History and affiliated to the University Library as a policy advisor. He graduated from the Radboud University in Nijmegen and was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto.
Maciej Ptaszyński
is a professor at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw. He studied History and Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and Freie Universität Berlin. He has published extensively on the church history and political theories in the early modern times.
Peter Sjökvist
is an associate professor at Uppsala University and is a rare books curator at Uppsala University Library. In his research he has mainly focused on occasional poetry, early modern dissertations, and literary spoils of war. As a curator, he is presently the manager of the project aiming at the identification of books brought to Sweden in the seventeenth century from libraries of a Polish city of Poznań.
Kaspar Kolk
is a researcher at the University of Tallinn and a librarian at the University of Tartu Library. His main areas of research are medieval and early modern book culture, Latin paleography and codicology.
Giovanna Granata
is a full professor at the University of Cagliari. Her main interests include the study of early modern and contemporary private collections, circulation of books in the early centuries of printing and the history of libraries. She is a member of the scientific committees of the research group on ‘Private Libraries of Philosophers from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century’ (picus.unica .it), and of the RICI group (Research on the Inquiry of the Congregation of the Index, rici.vatlib.it).
Lucrezia Signorello
is a curator of rare book and manuscript collections at the Malatestiana Library in Cesena and a member of the working group for the Manus Online Authority File (ICCU). Her PhD research project is aimed at the identification and reconstruction of the library of the Roman Augustinian convent of Santa Maria del Popolo in the seventeenth century.
Jindřich Kolda
is an assistant professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University Hradec Králové. His research focuses on the history of early modern female convents, libraries, landscape and art.
Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee
is a professor and chair of the Department of Early Modern Polish Literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published extensively on early modern Polish religious and amorous literature, while her recent research focuses on Polish-British literary links in the 1600s–1800s. Her most recent publications include W stronę Albionu. Studia z dziejów polsko-brytyjskich związków literackich w dobie wczesnonowożytnej (The Call of Albion. Studies on Early Modern Polish-British Literary Links, 2017).
Robert Maryks
received his PhD from Fordham University and works at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2010). He is the editor of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series, Jesuit Historiography Online, and Brill’s Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.
Gábor Förköli
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences within the ERC Project ‘From East to West, and Back Again: Student Travel and Transcultural Knowledge Production in Renaissance Europe (c.1470–c.1620)’ (PI: Valentina Lepri). He received his PhD from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) and the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. His interests include political literature, religious anthropology, history of rhetoric, and the uses of excerpts and common place books in early modern hand-written culture.
Claire Konieczny
received her PhD in French Literature from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Her thesis explores the rhetorical manners in which later Protestant and Catholic reformers attempted to (re)define their respective religions in France in the latter years of the French Wars of Religion.
Alicja Bielak
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences within the ERC Project ‘From East to West, and Back Again: Student Travel and Transcultural Knowledge Production in Renaissance Europe (c.1470–c.1620)’ (PI: Valentina Lepri). Her research interests include emblems and knowledge transfer in the early modern period. She works on a monograph devoted to Polish meditative emblems in the 1600s–1800s.
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
is an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She has published books and articles on book history, emblematics and the history of ideas, as well as edited extensive sixteenth-century texts. Her book Printers’ Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Iconographic Sources and Ideological Content will be published by Brill in 2024.