Notes on the Editors
Benedikt Brunner
is a Research Associate at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz. He received his PhD from the University of Münster in 2017 with a conceptual history of the term “Volkskirche” in German Protestantism. Since then, he worked on several aspects of the history of Early Modern Protestantism in Europe and beyond. He is currently finishing a book-length project about coping practices among Protestants in the cities of Nuremberg, Basel, London and Boston. He is the author of Volkskirche. Zur Geschichte eines evangelischen Grundbegriffs (1918–1960) (2020) and several articles about death in early modern Europe.
Martin Christ
is a Junior Fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the project “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”, based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has worked on religious coexistence in early modern central Europe, conversions to Lutheranism and urban history. He is currently working on a project about death and burials in Munich and London, c.1550–1870. He is the author of Biographies of a Reformation. Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520–1635 (2022) and co-editor, together with Carmen González Gutiérrez, of Death in the City in Premodern Europe (2022).