Notes on Contributors
Renaud Adam is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow (2017–) at LE STUDIUM, Loire Valley Institute of Advanced Studies (Orléans), in residence at the ‘Centre d’ études supérieures de la Renaissance’ in Tours, and Lecturer at the University of Liège, where he teaches History of the Book in the Renaissance (2012–). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) in Belgium (2014–2017). From 2002–2013, he worked at the Rare Book Department of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and in the University Library Moretus Plantin in Namur (2014). He has published books and papers dedicated to the history of the book in the Southern Low Countries from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, and to the history of libraries and uses of the book since the late Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century.
Daniel Bellingradt is a historian of early modern Europe. He earned his PhD in 2010 at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. In 2014 he became professor of Book Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Bellingradt is the author of Flugpublizistik und Öffentlichkeit um 1700. Dynamiken, Akteure und Strukturen im urbanen Raum des Alten Reiches (Stuttgart 2011), co-editor of the journal Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte, and has published several articles on aspects of media and communication history, and book history. In 2017, he co-edited the volume Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (with Jeroen Salman and Paul Nelles), and co-authored Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe. The Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections (with Bernd-Christian Otto). He is currently completing a monograph on the paper trade in early modern Amsterdam. In 2018, Daniel Bellingradt was awarded the “Maria-Weber-Grant” (Hans Böckler Foundation) for outstanding postdoctoral scholars.
Lorenz Boeninger is an independent scholar based in Florence. He has edited two volumes of the critical edition of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Lettere (Florence, 2010 and 2011) and, more recently, that of the Ricordanze of the humanist scribe Lorenzo di Francesco Guidetti (Rome, 2014). For Brill he has published the monograph Die deutsche Einwanderung in Florenz im Spätmittelalter (2006). In 2014, together with Paolo Procaccioli, he organized a congress on the printing of Cristoforo Landino’s “Comento” to Dante’s Divine Comedy (1481); the proceedings have now been published. He is currently working on a biography of the Florentine printer Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna.
Marius Buning received his PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (2013) with a dissertation on the making of a patent system in the early Dutch Republic. Marius has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He is currently a DRS Fellow at the Dahlem Humanities Center of the Free University of Berlin. His research interests focus on the origins of intellectual property; the relationship between science and technology; how experiment bears upon theory; and the part played by the early modern state in defining these respective fields.
Lucas Burkart has been Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Basel since 2012. His research interests encompass social, cultural and economic history, the history of visual and material culture, and the history of historiography. His latest publications include ‘Aus dem Rahmen. Jacob Burckhardt als Bildregisseur’, recently published in Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (2018) and the two co-edited volumes Sites of Mediation. Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and Beyond, 1450–1650 (2016) and Mythen, Körper, Bilder: Ernst Kantorowicz zwischen Historismus, Emigration und Erneuerung der Geisteswissenschaften (2015). He has published widely on various themes of medieval and Renaissance history and culture, including medieval treasuries and treasure hoarding, the politics of imagery and the culture of science in Baroque Rome. Currently, he is overseeing the completion of the critical edition of the works by Jacob Burckhardt.
Domenico Ciccarello is a librarian at the University of Palermo, Italy. He graduated in Librarianship at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2001, and was awarded an MPhil in Studies on Early Printed Books in 2004. He has participated in academic research projects on sixteenth-century booklists of Italian monastic libraries, and on the mobility of Italian publishers, printers, and booksellers between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. His PhD (Siena) consisted of a bibliography of seventeenth-century editions printed in Sicily. He has conducted post-doctoral research on printing and the book trade in Sicily in the seventeenth century. He has been an invited speaker to Library and Information Studies (LIS) conferences in Italy and abroad, and has published several essays and articles in the field. He participates in the editorial teams of LIS journals in Italy. He has recently become a member of the Italian Society for Bibliography and Librarianship.
Jamie Cumby is an Associate Editor on Preserving the World’s Rarest Books. She has been affiliated with the USTC project since beginning her PhD in 2014. Her doctoral thesis focused on the development of the Compagnie des libraires in Lyon before the Wars of Religion, and explored practices of incorporation and risk avoidance in early modern publishing. She first came to St Andrews for an MLitt in Book History, after receiving her BA from Wellesley College with honours in philosophy. She is also St Andrews’ contributor to the Material Evidence in Incunabula database.
Jeremiah Dittmar is Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He received a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley (2009). His research exploits historical data to document the institutional and technological roots of economic growth.
Vivienne Dunstan is an independent historian, specialising in Scottish social, cultural, urban and reading history, primarily in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She holds an honorary research fellowship in History at the University of Dundee and has published articles in various academic journals. Her PhD researched reading habits in Scotland circa 1750–1820, using evidence for reading from contemporary accounts, library borrowings and records of book ownership.
Falk Eisermann has been head of the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Union Catalogue of Incunabula) at the Berlin State Library since 2007. After receiving his PhD in Medieval German Literature at Göttingen University (1995), he held post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Groningen (The Netherlands), where he worked on a three-volume catalogue of fifteenth-century broadsides (published in 2004). From 2002 to 2007, he catalogued German Mediaeval manuscripts at Leipzig University Library. He has published on the transmission of vernacular texts in the later Middle Ages, on manuscripts, incunabula and early printing, and on medieval and early modern epigraphy.
Martine Furno has been Professor of Latin Languages and Literature at Stendhal University in Valence (Drôme) since 2002. Her habilitation thesis studied the mental representation of Antiquity in the Renaissance, and her currents (and old) interests focus on the history of the book, especially on erudite and scholastics printers during the sixteenth century, on lexicography and history of Latin language teaching. She is a regular collaborator of the Gabriel Naudé Centre and the ENSSIB in Lyon.
Idalia Garcia is a researcher at the Library Science and Information Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. She is the author of various monographs, including Miradas aisladas, visiones conjuntas: defensa del patrimonio documental mexicano (2001), Legislación sobre bienes culturales muebles: protección del libro antiguo (2002), and Secretos del Estante (CUIB, 2011). She also edited a number of volumes, including Complejidad y materialidad: reflexiones del Seminario del Libro Antiguo (2009), El Patrimonio documental en México (2009, with Bolfy Cotton), Leer en tiempos de la Colonia (2010), El libro en circulación en la América colonial. Producción, circuitos de distribución y conformación de bibliotecas en los siglos XVI al XVIII (the last two with Pedro Rueda). She is currently researching a project on ‘Permanence and transference of Books in New Spain: Second Hand Book Trade in the 17th and 18th century’ (2014–2019).
Shanti Graheli is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow in Comparative Literature and Translation at the University of Glasgow, where she is pursuing a project entitled ‘A European Bestseller: The Orlando furioso and Its Readers’. She is a long-term collaborator to the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at St Andrews. Her PhD thesis (St Andrews, 2015) explored the circulation and collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century; it under contract with Brill, as a monograph entitled Italian Books and the French Renaissance (2019). She is the author of various published studies of Italian and French Renaissance print culture.
Jan Hillgärtner is a lecturer in German at Leiden University. His work focusses on the spread of the newspaper in seventeenth-century Germany and modes of reporting in the periodical press. Before obtaining a PhD in modern History from the University of St Andrews, he graduated from the University of Marburg with a BA in Germanic Studies and has an MA from the University of Erlangen Nuremberg in Book Studies. He is currently working on a bibliography of German newspapers printed between 1605 and 1650.
Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zieba is assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her recent published work includes a monograph on printers’ devices in early modern Poland-Lithuania (Sygnety drukarskie w Rzeczypospolitej XVI wieku. Źródła ikonograficzne i treści ideowe, Krakow 2015) and an edition of a sixteenth-century book on fortune-telling (Stanisław z Bochnie Kleryka, Fortuna abo Szczęście, Krakow 2015).
Magdalena Komorowska is an adjunct at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University. She is interested in the book culture of early modern Krakow and her current research focuses on print house of the Piotrkowczyk family, active in the years 1574–1674. She also has experience in scholarly editing of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Polish literature. In 2012, she published a book discussing editorial problems in the writings of a renowned Polish Jesuit preacher Piotr Skarga; she also took part in the preparation of a critical edition of his works.
Dr Jason McElligott Jason McElligott is the Director of Marsh’s Library, Dublin. He is currently working on a history of book-theft in the eighteenth century, a study of Bram Stoker’s interest in early modern history, and the 1820 plot to assassinate the British cabinet known as the Cato Street Conspiracy.
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication including Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010) and The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014). His most recent book, Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin USA) was published in October 2015. His new projects include a study of Newspaper Advertising in the Low Countries and ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Books’, a collaborative project with libraries funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Jean-Paul Pittion studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris and at Trinity College, Dublin. He is Fellow emeritus from Trinity College, Dublin and was Professor at the Centre d’ Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours. His main interests are in the intellectual and cultural history of French Protestantism during the early modern period. Recent publications include a history of the French reformed Académie of Saumur (on line) and a book on ‘Le livre à la Renaissance’. He is currently working on a monograph on the Saumur Protestant book trade.
Amelie Roper is Research Development Manager at the British Library. She recently completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews on the culture of music printing in sixteenth-century Augsburg. She has published on the music output of Nuremberg printer Johannes Petreius and the production of song pamphlets and broadsheets in early modern Germany. She is more broadly interested in the material culture of the book, and, in her previous role as College Librarian at Christ’s College Cambridge, regularly oversaw exhibitions in the Old Library. Her current research focuses on digital sheet music publishing and the application of digital humanities techniques to the study of sixteenth-century pamphlets.
John Sibbald is a long-term associate of the St Andrews University Universal Short Title Catalogue project and has given papers at two of its annual conferences. His paper on the Heinsiana was published in M. Walsby and N. Constantinidou (eds.), Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print (2013). He acquired his first work on The Revd Dr Thomas Frognall Dibdin, An introduction to the Greek and Latin classics, at the thoroughly unhealthy age of thirteen. He is a former Librarian of the Advocates Library in Edinburgh and has been involved with the rare book business off and on for over fourty years. He is currently editing the medical section of the Heinsiana.
Drew Thomas is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the Universal Title Catalogue at the University of St Andrews. He received a BA in theology and philosophy from Saint Louis University, his Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, and his PhD in history from the University of St Andrews. His doctoral research focused on the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry during Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation. He is the Project Manager of the Caroline Minuscule Mapping Project hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.
Philip Tromans is a Research Fellow at De Montfort University, where he completed his thesis, ‘Advertising America: The Printing, Publication, and Promotion of English New World Books, 1553–1600’, and won the university thesis prize for 2016. A revised version of part of one of the thesis’s chapters appeared in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as ‘Thomas Hacket’s Publication of Books about America in the 1560s’ in 2015, and he is currently preparing a contribution to Stanford University Press’s forthcoming The Book Index (expected 2018) on how Richard Hakluyt indexed his pro-colonial publications of the 1580s. The contribution to this volume reflects his wider interests in the production and retailing of early modern English books, as does his ‘The Collation of John Hawkins’s Troublesome Voyage (1569), and its Wraparound Blank’, published by The Library in 2017.
Natale Vacalebre received his PhD in Bibliography and Book History from the University of Udine in 2015. A former Research Fellow of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vacalebre is currently a Benjamin Franklin Fellow in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he is pursuing a project entitled: ‘ “The Book and He Who Wrote It”. Reading Practices and Material Reception of Dante’s Commedia in Renaissance Europe’. He has studied the history of books and libraries for many years, with a special interest in ancient collections of religious orders, and the production and commerce of Italian books in the Early Modern age. His latest book, Come le armadure e l’armi (2016), is the first detailed account of the history of Early Modern Jesuit libraries. He is the editor of the Open Access journal Bibliotheca Dantesca, as well as a member of the editorial board of L’Almanacco bibliografico and an active correspondent of the Boston College Jesuit Bibliography. He is also the editor of the book Five Centuries Later. Aldus Manutius: Culture, Typography and Philology (2018).
Arthur der Weduwen is a researcher at the University of St Andrews and the author of Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Brill, 2017). An earlier version of this work won the St Andrews University’s Gray prize, and the Elzevier–De Witt prize in the Netherlands. His PhD (2018) is a study of government attempts to shape public opinion in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. He is a long-term associate of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. His most recent book, The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (co-authored with Andrew Pettegree), will appear in 2019 with Yale University Press (in English) and Atlas Contact (in Dutch).