Notes on Contributors
Klára Andresová
is a doctoral candidate in book history at Charles University, Prague. She obtained her Masters in Book History and Early Modern History of the Czech Lands, and now works on a project focused on Central European military manuals printed between 1550 and 1650. She was formerly Head of the Book History Department at the Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and is now curator of The Old Book Collection at the Military History Institute in Prague. She is a member of the grant committee for the VISK 7 Programme of the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Culture, which focuses on the conservation of documents written or printed on acid paper between the nineteenth century and the present day. Klára is the author of a number of papers which explore the military and book history of the early modern era.
Edoardo Barbieri
is Professor of the History of the Book at the Catholic University in Milan, where he is responsible for the Masters programmes Professione editoria cartacea e digitale and Booktelling: Comunicare e vendere prodotti editoriali. He has published widely on fifteenth and sixteenth century printed books and on the organisation of Renaissance libraries. He is director of the international journal La Bibliofilia. Rivista di storia del libro e di bibliografia and of the editorial series Biblioteca di bibliografia - Documents and Studies in Book and Library History (Olschki, Florence). A long-term area of interest for Edoardo has been the Books, Bridges of Peace Project based in the library of the Franciscan Friars in Jerusalem.
Sara Barker
is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, where she is also Deputy Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print, having previously held positions at the Universities of Lancaster, Warwick and Exeter. Her first monograph Protestantism, Poetry and Protest: The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c.1534–1591) (Ashgate, 2009), drew on her doctoral research and investigated how one French reformer used different media forms to disseminate his message. Her current research examines early modern news pamphlets, particularly issues relating to translation and international transmission: her monograph New and True? Translation, news and pamphlets in early modern France and England will appear in the Library of the Written Word series. She was the recipient of the Bibliographical Society’s Katharine F.
Alba de la Cruz Redondo
is a Lecturer at the Universidad de Jaén. She is the author of a number of studies of the book world of eighteenth-century Spain, including Las prensas del Rey: Imprenta y política en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII (1759–1808). Her present research focuses on the publishing industries of Spain, Portugal and their associated territories over the course of the early modern period. She has a particular interest in the role of women in the book trade.
Robert von Friedeburg
is a member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Reader at Bishop Grosseteste University. He has been a visiting fellow or guest professor at a host of prestigious institutions, including: Harvard, UNSW, the Sorbonne, Wolfenbuettel Research Library, and the Forschungskolleg. Robert has published widely, including seven books and eleven edited collections. These include: Luther’s Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of ‘State’ in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany, 1530–1680 (Ashgate, 2002); Monarchy transformed: princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe, co-edited with John Morrill (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Murder and Monarchy. Regicide in European History, 1300–1800 (Palgrave, 2004). A German expanded translation of Luther’s Legacy will appear in the Max Planck Institute for Legal History Series in 2018.
Martine Furno
has been a Professor of Latin Languages and Literatures at the University Grenoble Alpes, on the campus of Valence (Drôme), since 2002. Her habilitation thesis studied the mental representation of Antiquity in the Renaissance. Her current research focuses on the history of the book, especially on erudite and scholarly printers during the sixteenth century such as the Estienne family. She also has an interest in lexicography, and on the history of Latin language teaching. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Institut d’histoire
Edwin Andrew Goi
is a Carnegie scholar and doctoral candidate in history at the University of St Andrews, where he took an MA and MLitt. His doctoral research studies the politics behind the princely rebellions in France in the 1610s and examines the mutual relationship between pamphleteering and seventeenth-century French political, noble and legal culture.
Helmer Helmers
is a lecturer in Early Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and fellow of the NIAS Institute in Amsterdam. His first monograph, The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 2015) analyses Dutch publicity on the English Civil Wars. With Geert Janssen, he has recently edited The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (2018). His current research projects deal with public diplomacy in early modern Europe and the material culture of royalist exile.
Marc W. S. Jaffré
is currently a history tutor at the University of St Andrews and an assistant editor on the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He completed his PhD on the court of Louis XIII at the University of St Andrews in June 2017 after obtaining a BA and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, for which he was awarded a distinction. He has been the recipient of a number of prizes and awards, including a full three-year scholarship in celebration of the University of St Andrews’ 600th anniversary, and a prestigious bursary from the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. He has published an article on the court of Henri IV in French History and spoken at numerous conferences about various aspects of French court life in the late sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries.
Cara Janssen
was a PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Universities of Leuven and Antwerp from 2014 until 2018. Her doctoral dissertation looked at astrological ephemera in the sixteenth- and seventeenth century Habsburg Netherlands. In 2015, she published an article on the religious meaning of almanacs in early seventeenth-century Antwerp.
is the Project Manager of the Universal Short Title Catalogue at the University of St Andrews. He was awarded his PhD in 2013 for a study of Religious Controversy in the Sixteenth Century. Most recently he has explored the buying and selling of early modern editions in contemporary booklists. He is senior editor of Book History Online, published by Brill, and a consultant on Proquest’s Early European Book project.
Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo
is a lecturer in Spanish Literature at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. Her current research interests include Golden Age Spanish theatre and the Spanish and Portuguese book trade. She is co-editor, with Alexander S. Wilkinson, of Iberian Books Volumes II & III (Brill, 2015) and with Fernando Rodríguez-Gallego, of Un fondo desconocido de comedias españolas impresas conservado en la biblioteca pública de Évora (con estudio detallado de las de Calderón de la Barca) (Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares, 2016). She is currently researching the involvement of women in the early modern Spanish and Portuguese book trades.
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), The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014) and Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin, 2015). His recent projects include ‘Preserving the World’s Rarest Books’, a collaboration with the international library community funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His most recent book, The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (co-authored with Arthur der Weduwen), will appear in March 2019.
Rachel Stenner
is Lecturer in English Literature 1350–1660 at the University of Sussex. Her monograph, The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature was published in 2018 by Routledge. She has an essay collection, Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete, co-edited with Tamsin Badcoe and Gareth Griffith, forthcoming in 2019 with The Manchester Spenser Series. Her research is focused on textual cultures in the late medieval and early modern
Drew B. Thomas
is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the Universal Title Catalogue at the University of St Andrews. He received his Bachelor of Arts 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.
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 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).
Alexander S. Wilkinson
is Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He was born in Stirling and educated at the University of St Andrews. In 2001, he was appointed Project Manager of the British Academy and AHRC-funded French Vernacular Book Project at St Andrews, before moving to Ireland in 2006 to take up a lectureship at University College Dublin. His most recent project Iberian Books was published in 2018 and offers the first modern bibliographical survey of Spanish and Portuguese print before 1701. His next research project will look at ornamentation and illustration in books published in Europe in the pre-Industrial age. Sandy is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of several studies of the early modern European book world.