Jon Arrieta
is full professor of History of Law at the University of the Basque Country. He is specialist on public institutions of the kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon during the Early Modern period, with special attention to the War of Spanish Succession, the so called Austracists and the Decrees of Nueva Planta. More recently he studies the forms of union in the making of large monarchies, particularly the Spanish case, from a comparative point of view. Another research field is Basque law and institutions, on which he has published studies on legal treatises of lawyers such as Martín de Azpilcueta, Andrés de Poza and Pedro de Fontecha y Salazar.
Niall Bond
Ph.D. Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, habilitation 2010 ehess Paris, is a historian of political, social and economic thought and has worked extensively as a translator and conference interpreter in political, economic, sociological and other academic contexts. He has authored an intellectual biography (Understanding Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and Society: Volume 1: Political philosophy and sociological theory between enlightened liberal individualism and transfigured community, Lit Verlag, 2013), translated Tönnies’ Community and Society into French (puf, 2010), edited volumes in German and English and published more than 60 articles and chapters. He at present works at the research centre ihrim at University Lyon 2 and as a research associate at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.
Luc Brisson
is Director of Research (Emeritus) at the National Center for Scientific Research (Paris [Villejuif], France; Centre Jean Pépin, umr 8230 cnrs-ens, psl). He is known for his works on both Plato and Plotinus, including bibliographies, translations, and commentaries. He has also published numerous works on the history of philosophy and religions in Antiquity. Among his publications are Platon, les mots et les mythes (Maspero, 1982), Orphée et l’Orphisme dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine (Variorum, 1995), Vocabulaire de Platon, with Jean-François Pradeau (Ellipses, 1998), reprinted as Le Vocabulaire des Philosophes. De l’Antiquité à la Renaissance (Ellipses, 2002), and “Plato’s style and argument”, in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, edited by Paulina Remes and Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Routledge, 2014).
is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (bas) in Sofia. He is the author of the monograph Punishment for Tyrants: The Protestant and the Liberal Doctrines of Resistance against Power (Sofia: bas Press). His latest book is Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked: Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria (Ibidem Press, distributed by Columbia University Press). He also works as a journalist and writes on contemporary Bulgarian politics for Deutsche Welle.
Nóra Chronowski
JD., Ph.D., Habil., Professor of Constitutional Law, is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre of Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies and at National University of Public Service Faculty of Law Enforcement in Budapest. She was former Jean Monnet Chair (2007–2010) at the University of Pécs Faculty of Law, she has authored several books and over 190 articles. She participated in half a dozen international research projects supported by the erc and European Commission and gave over 30 presentations at international academic conferences. Her research interests include comparative-, EU- and constitutional law, human rights, and minority rights.
Angela De Benedictis
is a retired Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bologna. She is the author of Repubblica per contratto: Bologna, una città europea nello Stato della Chiesa (Il Mulino, 1995); Politica, governo e istituzioni nell’Europa moderna (Il Mulino, 2001); Tumulti: Moltitudini ribelli in età moderna (Il Mulino, 2013; English translation: Neither Disobedient nor Rebels: Lawful Resistance in Early Modern Italy, Viella, 2018); Revolts and Political Crime from the 12th to the 19th Century: Legal Responses and Juridical-political Discourses (Klostermann, 2013), co-edited with Karl Härter. Among her latest essays, “Prefacio. Resistere alla polizia che agisce ingiustamente: Comportamenti collettivi e letteratura politico-giuridica in età moderna”, in T.A. Mantecón Movellán, M. Torres Arce and S. Truchuelo García, Dimensiones del conflicto: Resistencia, violencia y policía en el mundo urbano (Universidad de Cantabria, 2020).
Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz
is a cultural historian of the early modern period specialized in Ottoman history. Since receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, her work has focused on the relationship between knowledge and political power in the Eastern Mediterranean. Previously she has published on sixteenth century
Håkon Evju
Ph.D. (2014) in History, University of Oslo, is Associate Professor of Intellectual History at that university. He has published Ancient Constitutions and Modern Monarchy: Historical Writing and Enlightened Reform in Denmark-Norway 1730–1814 (Brill, 2019) and numerous articles on different aspects of the Enlightenment in Denmark-Norway. His research interests include history of historiography, history of economic and political thought as well as the history of censorship and freedom of the press.
Pablo Fernández Albaladejo
is Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he held the chair on Early Modern History of Europe. Since 1992, when he published Fragmentos de Monarquía: Trabajos de historia política, his main research field has been political and constitutional history. In adition to his collected volume Materia de España: Cultura política e identidad en la España moderna (Marcial Pons, 2007), he has publisehd “Rethinking Identity: Crisis of Rule and Reconstruction of Identity in the Monarchy of Spain”, in The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque, H. E. Braun and J. Pérez Magallón eds. (Ashgate, 2014); and “Spanish Atlanteans: Rewriting the Origins of the Spanish Monarchy, 1672–1740”, Culture & History. Digital Journal, 4.2 (2015). He has edited two volumes: Los Borbones: Dinastía y memoria de nación en la España del siglo xviii (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2002), and Fénix de España: Modernidad y cultura propia en la España del siglo xviii, 1737–1766 (Marcial Pons, 2006), and has published La crisis de la Monarquía, vol. 4 of the Historia de España, eds. J. Fontana and R. Villares (Crítica and Marcial Pons, 2009).
Javier Fernández-Sebastián
is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao). He has published extensively on modern intellectual and conceptual history, in particular focused on Spain and the Ibero-American
Mareike Gebhardt
Ph.D., works at the Department of Political Science at Münster University. She studied Political Science, Sociology, and Philosophy at the universities of Trier, Wuerzburg, and Regensburg and wrote her dissertation on Hannah Arendt’s and Jürgen Habermas’s concepts of the political public and their implications for political action in late capitalism. In her teaching and research, she focuses on political theory, theories of radical democracy, and post-structuralism. Currently, she is working on a project on “democratic closure” to analyse constructions of otherness in Europe’s contemporary migration dicourse. Among her recent publications are “Flüchtige Präsenz. Umkämpfte Solidaritäten des EU-Migrationsregimes”, Femina Politica, 28.2 (2019), 54–67; and “The Populist Moment: Affective Orders, Protest, and Politics of Belonging”, Distinktion: Journal for Social Theory, (2019):
Xavier Gil
is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Barcelona, fellow of the Real Academia de la Historia and of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. He was co-founder of the European Society for the History of Political Thought and served as its president in 2014–2016. He also edits Pedralbes: Revista d’Història Moderna. He studies politics and political thought and culture in the Early Modern Iberian world. He has contributed to the volumes Republicanism, eds. M. Van Gelderen and Q. Skinner (Cambridge, 2002); European Political Thought, 1450–1700, eds. H.A. Lloyd, G. Burgess and S. Hodson (New Haven, 2007); Athenian legacies: European debates on citizenship, ed. P. Kitromilides (Florence, 2014); and The Iberian World, 1450–1820, eds. F. Bouza, P. Cardim and A. Feros (London, 2020). He is the author of La fábrica de la Monarquía: Traza y conservación de la Monarquía de España de los Reyes Católicos y los Austrias (Madrid, 2016) and of a number of articles on historical writing and the origins of international law.
has a background in intellectual historian and digital humanities. He completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford, writing on Rousseau's political thought, and post-docs at the London School of Economics and the University of Helsinki (where he applied digital methods to early modern political and social history). He is currently lecturer in Computational Social Science at the University of Kent.
Ferenc Hörcher
is a political thinker and historian of political thought. He studied in Budapest, Oxford and Brussels. He is research professor and head of the Research Institute of Politics and Government of the University of Public Service, and a senior fellow and former director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities, both in Budapest. He was a visiting researcher in Cambridge, Göttingen, Wassenaar, Edinburgh and the University of Notre Dame in the US. His last two books are: A Political Philosophy of Conservatism (Bloomsbury, 2020), and The Political Philosophy of the European City (Lexington Books, 2021).
Jaska Kainulainen
is a docent of history of ideas at the University of Helsinki. He has published the monograph Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State (Brill, 2014) and several shorter pieces on religious and political ideas in early modern Europe, including two articles on the Jesuits: “Isocrates’s phronesis and the early Jesuits”, Journal of Early Modern History, 22.6 (2018); and “Virtue and civic life in early-modern Jesuit education”, Journal of Jesuit Studies, 5.4 (2018). He is currently finalizing a monograph on the early Jesuits and the rhetorical tradition.
Thomas Lorman
is a historian of Central Europe. Since 2010 he has taught at ucl’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has published widely on Hungarian and Slovak history and also serves as editor of the journal Central Europe. His last two books are The Making of the Slovak People’s Party: Religion, Nationalism and the Culture War in Early 20th-Century Europe (Bloomsbury, 2019) and A History of the Hungarian Constitution: Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe, which he co-edited with Ferenc Hörcher (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Adriana Luna-Fabritius
is an Academy of Finland Researcher to the Department of History at the University of Helsinki. She has published on early modern languages of
Ere Nokkala
Ph.D. 2010 European University Institute, Florence, is University Researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is a member of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History with a focus on eighteenth-century Germany, Scandinavia and Finland. His publications include From Natural Law to Political Economy: jhg von Justi on State, Commerce and International Order (lit Verlag, 2019) and the edited volume Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective (Routledge, 2020), co-edited with Nicholas B Miller. He has published widely in aspects of cameralism and early modern republicanism, including in History of European Ideas, European Review of History, and Contributions to the History of Concepts. Nokkala is co-director of the International Research Network on Cameralism across the World of Enlightenment.
Brian Kjær Olesen
is a historian of early modern and Enlightenment political thought, who specialises in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. His research includes theories of monarchism, religious toleration and rival interpretations of freedom in monarchical and republican political discourses. He defended his PhD dissertation, “Monarchism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy: Ludvig Holberg and the Early Northern Enlightenment”, at the European University Institute in Florence (2016), and, since then, he has been a fellow at izea – Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, a postdoctoral fellow at the saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen and, most recently, a visiting fellow at Pompeu Fabra University.
is Research Chair and Head of Department for the Study of Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law at the (formerly Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Institute Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies. He is also Professor of Law at the Institute of Business Economics at Eötvös University (elte) and at the Law Enforcement Faculty of the National University of Public Service, and Adjunct (Recurrent Visiting) Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. His research interest includes comparative constitutional law, human rights, law enforcement, hate crimes, discrimination and the conceptualization of race and ethnicity. In 2018 he founded the International Association of Constitutional Law (iacl) Research Group on identity, race and ethnicity in constitutional law. Among his recent publications are Democratic Decline in Hungary: Law and Society in an Illiberal Democracy (Routledge, 2018) and two articles in Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 49.2 (2021), special issue on “Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Identity, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality by Law”.
Nikola Regent
is Professor at the Australian National University, he has published on various topics in the history of political and economic thought, history of philosophy, and political theory. A significant part of his research deals with the influence of ancient writers, and ancient history more generally, on ideas and politics, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in various venues, including History of Political Thought, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of European Ideas, Global Intellectual History, English Historical Review and History of the Human Sciences.
José Reis Santos
Ph.D. in Contemporary History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the New University of Lisbon. He published Salazar e as Eleições: Um estudo sobre as eleições gerais de 1942 (Assambleia da República, 2011), and “Self-fashioning of a conservative revolutionary: Salazar’s integral corporatism and the international networks of the 1930’s” in Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America: Crossing Borders, A.C. Pinto and F. Finchelstein, eds. (Routledge, 2019). He has also been a consultant for (historical) media productions, and a frequent writer in printed and online media for more than a decade, namely in Visão, Jornal Económico, Expresso, Eurozine, and other outlets.
is a PhD candidate at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). His research interests focus on the political and diplomatic connectors between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Monarchy in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Special attention goes to local authorities and their role in the rapprochement of both systems. He has published some works on the Twelve Years Truce and is currently completing his dissertation ‘Negotiation, power and sovereignty in the Low Countries (1598–1621)’.
Pablo Sánchez León
is currently a researcher at the Centro de Humanidades cham in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His dissertation was in the field of historical sociology, comparing the social and institutional dynamics of urban Castile between the late medieval and early modern periods. He has published amply on conceptual history, history of economic and political thought and the history of citizenship in Spain between the Old Regime and Liberalism. His latest book is Popular Political Participation and the Democratic Imagination, in Spain. From Crowd to People, 1766–1868 (Palgrave, 2020).
Ersin Yildiz
has been a scholar at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. He received his ma studies in Political Science and Philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. After research studies at the New School for Social Research as a visiting scholar, he completed his dissertation on the socialist constitutional theories of the Weimar Republic at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. His research interests are political theory and history of ideas, especially in the German tradition. He is currently working on the changing relationship between public sphere and political consciousness. He has published essays on critical political thought including “Marx’ verfassungstheoretische Schriften und die Entwicklung der materialistischen Rechtstheorie” (2015); “Max Horkheimer” (2015); “Lefort und Kantorowicz: Repräsentation und die politische Form der modernen Gesellschaft” (2013); “Kritik und politische Aufklärung in der Tradition der Kritischen Theorie” (2012).
