Notes on the Editors
Wietse de Boer
is the Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History at Miami University (Ohio). His research interests are focused on Italian religious and cultural history between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. His publications include The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan (2001; Italian trans. 2004), Art in Dispute: Catholic Debates at the Time of Trent (2021), and seven edited volumes, including Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe, co-edited with Christine Göttler (2013), Jesuit Image Theory, co-edited with Karl A.E. Enenkel and Walter S. Melion (2016), and La ghianda e la quercia. Saggi per Adriano Prosperi, co-edited with Vincenzo Lavenia and Giuseppe Marcocci (2019). His book project, The Windows of the Soul: Sensory Culture and Religious Conflict in Early Modern Italy, is in an advanced stage of preparation.
Christine Göttler
is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Bern. Her research interests focus on collecting practices and collection spaces, the intersections between art, natural philosophy, and religion, the relationship between landscape and nature, and early modern notions of materiality and immateriality. She is the author of Die Kunst des Fegefeuers nach der Reformation: Kirchliche Schenkungen, Ablass und Almosen in Antwerpen und Bologna um 1600 (1996); and Last Things: Art and the Religious Imagination in the Age of Reform (2010). Her twelve edited volumes include: Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern European Culture (with Wolfgang Neuber, 2007); Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe (with Wietse de Boer, 2013); Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts (with Sven Dupré, 2017); The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art (with Mia M. Mochizuki, 2018); Solitudo: Spaces, Places, and Times of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures (with Karl A.E. Enenkel, 2018); and Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature (with Mia M. Mochizuki, 2022). She is currently working toward completion of her book, Fluid Worlds: Art and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp.