Notes on the Contributors
Xavier Bisaro †
was Professor of musicology at the University of Tours and researcher in the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR). His main publications are focused on the musicological history of divine worship and on liturgical erudition in modern France. He was also the director of the project Cantus Scholarum (<www.cantus-scholarum.univ-tours.fr>) devoted to school singing in modern Europe. Among his publications is the Guide historique et pratique du plain-chant et du faux-bourdon (France, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles) (2017).
Gordon Campbell
is Fellow in Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester. From 2012 to 2017 he served as Lead Historian for the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC. He is a Renaissance and seventeenth-century specialist with particular interests in John Milton and in the history of the Bible. He is the author of Bible: the Story of the King James Version and editor of The Holy Bible: Quatercentenary Edition (2010). Broader interests in cultural history on which he publishes include art, architecture, classical antiquity, garden history, legal history, historical theology and the Islamic world.
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
is currently teaching historical anthropology at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (LISST-CAS Toulouse). His research deals with irreligion, dissent, secret and imposture in modern European culture. He is the author of Les Déniaisés – Irréligion et libertinage au début de l’époque moderne (2014) and has provided the first critical edition of Louis Machon, Apologie pour Machiavelle (1668) (2016).
Sabrina Corbellini
is Professor of Reading Culture in Premodern Europe at the History programme at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. Her research focuses on religious reading activities of lay people and on the reconstruction of reading techniques during the late Middle Ages. She had directed the COST Action New Communities of Interpretation (2013–2017) and is currently leading her research within the framework of the NWO-Free Competition project Cities of Readers. Religious Literacies in the Long Fifteenth Century (2015–2019, with Prof. B. Ramakers) and the cooperation project Netherlands (NWO) – Flanders (FWO) In Readers’ Hands. Early Modern Dutch Bibles and their Readers (2017–2021, together with W. François).
François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles
has been curator of rare books in the Bibliothèque nationale, director of the French national school for librarians, and curator of early printed books at the Institut de France. Since 2007 he is professor of medieval and early modern Christianity in the department of Religion at Florida State University and visiting professor in the history of the Italian book at the University of Italian Switzerland. His main book, Dieu en son royaume. La Bible dans la France d’autrefois (13e–18e siècle) (Paris: 1991), presently under major revision, emphasizes the constant metamorphosis of biblical texts and images that shaped French culture and society between the time of Saint Louis and the French revolution.
Max Engammare
B.A. (Psychology, Geneva; Theology, Lausanne), M.A., Ph.D. (History of Theology, Geneva), is an Associated Researcher at the University of Geneva and General Director of the publishing house Droz (Geneva). Among his recent publications are On Time, Punctuality and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism (2010); Jean Calvin, Sermons sur Esaïe 52–66 découverts et édités par M. E. (Supplementa Calviniana IV/1 & IV/2 2012); and Soixante-trois. La peur de la grande année climactérique à la Renaissance (2013).
Wim François
earned his Ph.D. in theology at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in 2004. Currently he is a research professor of the Special Research Fund (BOFZAP) at the Catholic University of Leuven in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. His field of research is the history of Church and theology in the Early Modern Era (1450–1650). He is especially interested in the space vernacular Bible reading occupied in the life of the faithful in that period and is, moreover, doing research into the Bible commentaries edited by the Louvain and Douai theologians during the Golden Age of Catholic biblical scholarship (1550–1650). In these fields, he authored several articles and book chapters, and co-edited (together with A.A. den Hollander) ‘Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants’: The Bible for the Laity and Theologians in Late Medieval and Early Modern Era (2012), and Infant Milk or Hardy Nourishment? The Bible for Lay People and Theologians in the Early Modern Period (2009).
Ignacio J. García Pinilla
is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Classical Studies (with a specialization in Latin) at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He has earned his Ph.D. at the University of in Sevilla in 1993 with his dissertation on El Epistolario de Francisco de Enzinas. His work examines the impact of spiritual dissent in Spain and the Spanish humanists of the 16th century. His research interests include critical editions of Neo-Latin texts, epistolography, political writings and Bible translations. He is a member of the editorial board of the collection Heterodoxia Iberica (Brill).
Stefano Gattei
is a philosopher and historian of science working on both contemporary philosophical issues (theory-change, rationality, truth and relativism) and on the history of early modern astronomy and cosmology (with special reference to Kepler and Galileo). He co-edited, with Joseph Agassi, the fourth volume of Paul K. Feyerabend’s collected philosophical papers, Physics and Philosophy (2016). His On the Life of Galileo, an annotated collection and translation of early biographical accounts of Galileo, has just been published by Princeton University Press.
Margriet Hoogvliet
earned her Ph.D. at the University of Groningen in 1999. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the research project Cities of Readers: Religious Literacies in the Long Fifteenth Century, funded by the Dutch research council NWO, with a study on Between Paris and Antwerp: Multilingual Communities of Interpretation. She has published numerous articles on the history and culture of medieval and early modern France, during the recent years most notably on the biblical and religious reading cultures of lay people in the towns of late medieval France and the southern Low Countries.
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
is currently the Head of History in University College Dublin. His main research interests are concentrated on processes of Catholic renewal in Early Modern Europe, in particular on the Western and Eastern fringes of the continent. He has published widely in this field in journals such as History Compass, Revue historique, The English Historical Review, Studies in Church History and is a contributor to both the Oxford Handbook of Irish History and the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ireland. His most recent monograph is entitled Catholic Europe, 1592–1648: Centre and Peripheries (2015). He was the joint Principal Investigator of the Insular Christianities project (2009–2012) which was funded by the Irish Research Council.
Concetta Pennuto
is Maître de Conférences at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR), University of Tours. She is specializes in the field of the history of medicine and sciences. She especially works on women’s health, contagious disease and medical gymnastics in the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Among others, she published Girolamo Mercuriale, Johann Crato von Krafftheim, Une correspondance entre deux médecins humanistes, trans. and ed. J. Michel-Agasse – C. Pennuto, 2017, and on Girolamo Fracastoro and Giorgio Baglivi.