Notes on the Contributors
Edoardo Angione
holds a PhD from the Department of Human Studies at the University of Roma Tre, Italy. His forthcoming thesis and book The Papacy and the Ottoman Empire: political, diplomatic and cultural aspects in the early 17th century is an enquiry on international and interreligious politics in the early modern Mediterranean and in the global context, he has published already several articles on that subject.
Iordan Avramov
is a researcher at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and historian interested in early modern intellectual communication. His research has been focused on the early Royal Society of London and figures like Henry Oldenburg and Robert Boyle. He has co-authored (with Michael Hunter and Hideyuki Yoshimoto) Boyle’s Books: The Evidence of his Citations (London: 2010) and is currently working on the role of the communicator in early modern science.
Marloes Cornelissen
is a historian and currently works as an instructor of Social and Political Science courses with a focus on Humanity and Society at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she earned her PhD and is a member of the Foundation Development Directorate. Previously she has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University. Her areas of expertise are early modern history of the Ottoman Empire, cultural history, consumption culture, and material culture. Her research interests currently focus on the material culture of diplomacy.
David Do Paço
is currently a István Deák visiting Professor in East Central European Studies at Columbia University’s History Department and Harriman Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in 2012 from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and he has been a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, a Core fellow at CEU-IAS, and an assistant professor in 18th-century history at Sciences Po. His book L’Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle (Oxford, 2015) developed a critical approach to the trade diaspora studies. He is now exploring the social history of Muslims in early modern Europe and he has recently contributed to several peer-review journals.
José Luis Egío
is member of the research project The School of Salamanca (Academy of Sciences Mainz, MPI, Goethe University). He has published monographs and articles on the history of philosophy, law and theology in early modern Spain, France and Mexico. Together with Thomas Duve and Christiane Birr, he has recently edited the book The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production (Brill: 2021).
Paula Manstetten
is a post-doctoral researcher in Early Modern History at Bamberg University, Germany. Her research focuses on Arab Christians in early modern Europe, pre-modern Arabic historiography and biography, and Islamic education. She studied Arabic and Islamic studies and literature in Münster, Berlin, Damascus, and London and completed her PhD on Ibn ʿAsākir’s twelfth-century History of Damascus at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2018.
Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi
holds a MSc in Global History from the London School of Economics, London, and a Mphil in Modern European History, University of Cambridge. She is currently PhD candidate at the University of Cyprus with the thesis Sentiments and moral identity in the correspondence of the Greek merchants of the Enlightenment.
Simon Mills
was awarded his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London in 2009, and is currently Lecturer in Early Modern History at Newcastle University. He has held fellowships at the Council for British Research in the Levant, Amman; the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge; and the Dahlem Humanities Centre, Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2014 and 2017, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Kent. His recent research on the Levant Company’s chaplains in the Eastern Mediterranean and the early modern Republic of Letters culminated in the 2020 Oxford UP monograph A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760.
David Nelson
received a B.A. from Utah State in 2000 and the PhD from Indiana University in 2007. He is Associate Professor in the History Department at California Lutheran University, teaching Asian History and Modern European History. His area of expertise is sixteenth and seventeenth century Japanese history, with research interest in crime and punishment as well as honor culture.
Adolfo Polo y La Borda
is assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. He got his PhD (2017) at the University of Maryland – College Park, USA. His research focuses on the political culture of the Spanish Empire, with a particular interest in early modern globalization, imperial mobility, and the ideas and practices of cosmopolitanism. He is finishing a book on the worldwide movement of seventeenth-century Spanish imperial officials.
Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez
received in 2007 a PhD in Spanish Literature from Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2021 a second PhD from the University Complutense of Madrid with a critical edition of Antonio de Salamanca’s Libro de casos impensados. Since 2014, she is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa. Next to her first book, Letras liberadas. Cautiverio, escritura y subjetividad en el Mediterráneo de la época imperial española (Liberated Letters. Captivity, Writing and Subjectivity in the Mediterranean during the Spanish Empire), Madrid: Visor, 2013, she has edited several volumes and edited many articles in that field of research.
Cesare Santus
holds a PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and is currently FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain. In his book Trasgressioni necessarie. Communicatio in sacris, coesistenza e conflitti tra le comunità cristiane orientali (Rome: 2019) he studied the confessional dynamics within the Greek and Armenian communities of the Ottoman Empire, and their reaction to Catholic apostolate in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is the author of several articles on the Muslim and Eastern Christian presence in early modern Italy, and has recently published a second book, Il “turco” a Livorno: Incontri con l’islam nella Toscana del Seicento (Milan: 2019). He is actually pursuing an on-going research on the role of the Roman Inquisition in examining the problems raised by the establishment of the Eastern Catholic Churches and more broadly by European missionary activity in the East.
Stefano Saracino
holds a PhD 2011 in Political Sciences, defended at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität Munich and published unter the title Tyrannis und Tyrannenmord bei Machiavelli: zur Genese einer antitraditionellen Auffassung politischer Gewalt, politischer Ordnung und Herrschaftsmoral (2012). After Postdoc Fellowships at the University of Frankfurt and research positions at the FSU Jena, he is currently employed in the SFB 1015 Muße, University of Freiburg. He has published widely and has edited several volume(s) on the history of Machiavelli(sm) and statehood. His current research focuses on the history of Greek orthodox almseeking in the Holy Roman Empire.