Notes on Contributors
Riccardo Bavaj
is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and Co-Director of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History. His research focuses on the intellectual and spatial history of twentieth-century Germany. It is particularly concerned with the history of radicalism, liberalism, modernity, academia, and the idea of the West. His recent publications include Doing Spatial History (ed. with Konrad Lawson and Bernhard Struck) (2022); A Guide to Spatial History. Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research (with Konrad Lawson and Bernhard Struck) (2021); Zivilisatorische Verortungen. Der ‘Westen’ an der Jahrhundertwende (1880–1930) (ed. with Martina Steber) (2018); Germany and ‘the West’. The History of a Modern Concept (ed. with Martina Steber) (2015; pbk 2017); Der Nationalsozialismus. Entstehung, Aufstieg und Herrschaft (2016).
Flavia Bruni
is a Research Fellow at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a librarian at the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU). She is a member of the Europeana Members Council, of the IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections Section Committee, of the Permanent IFLA UNIMARC Committee (PUC) and of the IFLA ISBD Review Group, and a representative for the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), for the World Digital Library (WDL), for the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) and for the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). From 2015 to 2021 she was a Honorary Research Fellow in Book History at the School of History of the University of St Andrews as an associate with the Universal Short Title Catalogue project, where she worked as a Research Assistant from 2009 to 2015. After a successful international conference co-organised with Andrew Pettegree in 2014, they edited together the volume Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe (Brill, 2016).
Arjan van Dijk
is Director of Brill’s History & Social Sciences unit and Senior Acquisitions Editor for Early Modern Studies. He began his publishing career in 1998 as corrector for IDC Publishers and joined Brill in 2006, working from its Leiden and Boston offices. Aside from the Library of the Written Word, his programme includes the Journal of Early Modern History, Quaerendo, and Erasmi Opera Omnia. Among his own articles are ‘Early Printed Qur’ans: The Dissemination of the Qur’an in the West’ (Journal of Qur’anic Studies), ‘Primary Source Publishers in a Googling World’ (Microform & Imaging Review), and ‘Das Dämonische als moderne Rezeptionskategorie. Dargestellt an Goethes Egmont und Torquato Tasso’ (Neophilologus). Arjan holds an MA in German Studies from Leiden University.
Alastair Duke
first met Andrew Pettegree in the early 1980s when he was preparing his Oxford D. Phil on the foreign Protestant Communities in Elizabethan London. That encounter developed into an enduring friendship. His own introduction to the history of the Low Countries arose from a chance conversation with the late Patrick Collinson in the mid-1960s. Why not research, he said, the Dutch Reformation, we don’t know much about it? The challenge appealed. Belatedly he gained his doctorate at Leiden University in 1990 under the guidance of Juliaan Woltjer, the doyen of scholars writing on the Dutch Revolt. Since 1967 he has written a score of articles on various aspects of the Reformation and the Revolt in the Low Countries, most recently on the elusive identity of this region, the role of William of Orange and the character of rebel propaganda. These are subjects that after more than fifty years continue to intrigue him.
Bruce Gordon
is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. His books include The Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002), Calvin (Yale, 2009), John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography (Princeton, 2016), (with Carl Trueman) the Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford, 2021) and God’s Armed Prophet: Zwingli (Yale, 2021). He is currently writing The Bible: A Global History for Basic Books.
Brian L. Hanson
is Assistant Professor of History and Theology at Bethlehem College and Seminary. He is the author of Reformation of the Commonwealth: Thomas Becon and the Politics of Evangelical Change in Tudor England (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019) and “‘Sedicious’ Sermons: Preaching, Politics, and Provocation in Reformation England, 1549–1570” in Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period (Routledge, 2022). He is the co-author of Waiting on the Spirit of Promise: The Life and Theology of Suffering of Abraham Cheare (Wipf & Stock, 2014).
Mack P. Holt
is Professor of History Emeritus at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he has taught early modern European history for more than thirty years. His research has focused on the Reformation and French Wars of Religion, as well as the history of wine. His most recent book is The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630 (CUP, 2018), which was awarded the David H. Pinkney Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies. He is currently working on an analysis of how sixteenth-century readers read their vernacular Bibles in French, based on readers’ marks and annotations in more than 500 surviving copies of sixteenth-century French Bibles.
Richard Kirwan
is Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. Dr Kirwan specialises in early modern European history with a focus on the German-speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire. His research interests include the social and cultural history of the early modern world of learning, early modern print culture, and Reformation history. Dr Kirwan’s current project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, is a study of religious conversion, exile and migration among scholars in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1555–c.1648. Dr Kirwan’s publications include the monograph Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576–1634 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009), the edited volume Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), and the co-edited volume Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2015).
Katell Lavéant
is associate professor of early modern French literature and culture at Utrecht University. She is the author of Un théâtre des frontières. La culture dramatique dans les provinces du Nord aux XVe et XVIe siècles (2011) and the co-author of the Recueil des sotties françaises (3 volumes, ongoing publication). She is the principal investigator of the project ‘Uncovering Joyful Culture: Parodic Literature and Practices in and around the Low Countries (13th–17th centuries)’, funded by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research. With a team of international researchers, she is currently developing the Sammelband 15–16 book historical project, for which she received the Descartes-Huygens Prize from the French and Dutch Academies of Sciences in 2018.
Ian Maclean
is an Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies of the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews. He works on the intellectual traditions of the higher disciplines, and on book history. His most recent publications are Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book (Brill, 2020) and (edited with Dimitri Levitin) The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age (Brill, 2021).
Guido Marnef
is full professor at the History Department of the University of Antwerp and a member of the Center for Urban History. His research focuses on the Protestant and Catholic Reformation movements in the Low Countries, the Dutch Revolt, and cultural life in the cities of the Low Countries. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Scaliger fellow at Leiden University. He is the author of Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis 1550–1577 (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996). He is currently finishing a book about the Calvinist Republic in Antwerp (1577–1585).
Jonathan A. Reid
is Professor of Renaissance and Reformation History at East Carolina University. He previously served as a post-doc on the French Religious/Vernacular Book Project at St Andrews. He is author of King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549) and Her Evangelical Network (Leiden: Brill, 2009). His most recent publications include ‘Erasmus’s Call for Vernacular Scriptures and the Biblical Program of Lefèvre d’Étaples’, in 1516 Le Nouveau Testament d’Érasme: Regards sur l’Europe des humanistes, edited by Thierry Amalou with Alexandre Vanautgaerden (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), pp. 155–172 and ‘The Meaux Group and John Calvin’ in Calvin and the Early Reformation, edited by Brian Brewer and David Whitford (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 58–95.
Alec Ryrie
was one of the first postgraduates to work at the newly created St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute in 1993–4, where he completed his M.Litt under Andrew Pettegree’s supervision. Having passed through Oxford and Birmingham since, he is now Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London. His books include The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (2006), Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013) and Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019).
Grant Tapsell
has been Fellow and Tutor in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, since 2011. His publications include The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681–85 (Boydell, 2007) which appeared when he was a Lecturer at St Andrews, hired during Andrew Pettegree’s time as Head of School. (Professor Pettegree – presumably warmly approving its slimly economical form – described it on arrival as a ‘half-o-graph’.) More recent work has focused on the Restoration Church of England, including an edited collection, The Later Stuart Church, 1660–1714 (MUP, 2012), and a number of essays concerning Archbishop William Sancroft (1617–93). He is currently completing an edition of Sancroft’s letters for the Church of England Record Society.
Margo Todd
is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches early modern British and Atlantic history. She is the author of Christian humanism and the puritan social order and The culture of protestantism in early modern Scotland, among other works, and editor of The Perth Kirk Session Books, 1577–1590 for the Scottish History Society. She is currently at work on a history of Perth from the Reformation through the Cromwellian occupation, and on a study of Elizabethan and early Jacobean puritans in Britain and abroad.
Natale Vacalebre
is Benjamin Franklin Fellow in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he is currently completing a research project on the Renaissance readers of Dante’s Commedia. He is also Managing Editor of the UPenn academic journal Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies, which he founded in 2018. A scholar of the circulation of written culture and the history of libraries in the early modern age, Vacalebre is the author of numerous articles published in international academic journals, as well as of the monograph Come le armadure e l’armi. Per una storia delle antiche biblioteche della Compagnia di Gesù (Florence: Olschki, 2016). In 2020 he was awarded the Charles Hall Grandgent Award by the Dante Society of America for his article on the recent discovery of Guglielmo Maramauro’s commentary on the Commedia, of which he is preparing a critical edition with an English translation.
Malcolm Walsby
is professor of book history at Enssib in Lyon and director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre. The co-founder of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, he has published extensively on European book history during the Renaissance and has edited bibliographies on French and Netherlandish books. Most recently, he is the author of L’imprimé en Europe occidentale, 1470–1680 (2020) and Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 (2021).
Elise Watson
is a postdoctoral researcher with the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at the University of St Andrews. Her PhD, completed in 2021, examined printing for the Catholic community in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, investigating the dual functions of Catholic print in this period as an essential ministry to a religious minority and an illicit but profitable subsection of the Dutch book trade. In 2020, she also received the Ecclesiastical History Society’s Michael Kennedy Prize for her article on the participation of Catholic lay sisters in the Dutch book trade, now published in volume 57 of Studies in Church History.
Arthur der Weduwen
is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and co-Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He has edited a volume on book catalogues in early modern Europe (Brill, 2021) and is the author of five books, including Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Brill, 2017), The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (with Andrew Pettegree, Yale UP, 2019), and The Library: A Fragile History (also with Andrew Pettegree, Profile, 2021). His next monograph will be Selling the Republican Ideal. State Communication in the Dutch Golden Age (OUP, 2023).