Notes on the Contributors
Friedrich J. Becher
has a Master in European Art History and defended his PhD thesis, in 2023, in which he elaborated on the cultural practice(s) of displaying human bones. The research was funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
Isabel Casteels
works as a PhD researcher at the KU Leuven and Leiden University, where she is preparing a dissertation on the role of spectators in public executions during the Dutch Revolt. Her research interests are in the fields of cultural history and the history of knowledge of the early modern Low Countries. Together with Louise Deschryver and Violet Soen she recently edited a thematic issue of the journal Early Modern Low Countries, Divided by Death? Staging Mortality in the Early Modern Low Countries (2021).
Louise Deschryver
is a PhD fellow of the FWO at the KU Leuven. She is preparing a dissertation on death, the senses and the Reformation in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, investigating how new sensory repertoires and conflicts on embodied funerary rites co-shaped the course of the Revolt in Antwerp. Together with Isabel Casteels and Violet Soen, she edited the volume Divided by Death? Staging Mortality in the Early Modern Low Countries (2021) for the journal Early Modern Low Countries.
Irene Dingel
is the former director of the Leibniz-Institute of European History, Mainz (department of European Religious History), and Professor Emerita at the University of Mainz. She has worked extensively on Protestantism, Lutheran confessional cultures, the Reformation and the early Enlightenment religious peace agreements in Ealy Modern Europe. Her books include Concordia controversa. Die öffentlichen Diskussionen um das lutherische Konkordienwerk am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts (1996), and Vielfalt – Ordnung – Einheit. Kirchengeschichtliche Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit (2021).
Michaël Green
is a historian of early modern religion, society and culture. He completed his PhD at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Since then he has held research and teaching positions in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Spain and Poland. He is currently professor at the University of Łódz (Poland) and works on notions of privacy, history of religious minorities, and epistolary exchanges in the early modern world. He is the author of An Interreligious Dialogue: Portrayal of Jews in Dutch French-Language Periodicals (1680–1715) (2022), and The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638–1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant (2015). He is the editor of Le Grand Tour 1701–1703. Lettres de Henry Bentinck et de son précepteur Paul Rapin-Thoyras, à Hans Willem Bentinck (2021).
Vanessa Harding
is Emeritus Professor of London History at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on London between c. 1300 and 1700, and specifically on mortality, death and burial, and urban space. Publications include The Dead and the Living in London and Paris, 1500–1700 (2002).
Sigrun Haude
is Walter C. Langsam Professor of European History at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the Reformation from its roots in the later Middle Ages to the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648). She has published on the Radical Reformation, the role of Gender among Anabaptists and Spiritualists, on society and the Thirty Years’ War. Her most recent publication book is Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (2021).
Vera Henkelmann
is a fellow at the Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt, and a freelance lecturer at the Universities of Tübingen and Greifswald. Her areas of expertise include light and lighting devices in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages, medieval jewellery and its relation to the body, object cultures of medieval hunting, and textiles in profane-sacral networks. She is the author of Spätgotische Marienleuchter. Formen, Funktionen, Bedeutungen (2014).
Imke Lichterfeld
teaches English Literature at Bonn University, Germany, where she currently holds a position as Studies Coordinator at the Department of English, American and Celtic Studies. She has contributed to publications on the English Renaissance, Modernism, and contemporary literature. She is the author of When the Bad Bleeds – Mantic Elements in English Renaissance Revenge Tragedy. Her current research focuses on early modern drama, and Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Erik R. Seeman
is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). A specialist in the history of religion and death practices in the early modern Atlantic world, he is the author of Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800 (2010), The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America (2011), and Speaking with the Dead in Early America (2019). His current book project is Boston’s Pox of 1721: A People’s History.
Elizabeth Tingle
is Professor of History at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has written extensively on the Wars of Religion and the Catholic Reformation in France. Her recent book-size publications are Sacred Journeys: Long Distance Pilgrimage in North-Western Europe in the Counter Reformation (2020) and, together with Philip Booth the edited volume, A Companion to Death, Burial and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe c.1300–c.1700 (2021). Currently she is working on cathedral chapters in early modern France.
Hillard von Thiessen
is professor for early modern history at the University of Rostock (since 2013), formerly, he was substitute professor for early modern history at the University of Cologne. His research interests include norms, values and the culture of ambiguity in premodern Europe, diplomacy in early modern Europe, corruption and patronage in early modern political culture. Among his book-length publications are Das Zeitalter der Ambiguität. Vom Umgang mit Werten und Normen in der Frühen Neuzeit (2021); Normenkonkurrenz in historischer Perspektive (edited volume, together with Arne Karsten, 2015); Diplomatie und Patronage. Die spanisch-römischen Beziehungen 1605–1621 in akteurszentrierter Perspektive (2010); Die Kapuziner zwischen Konfessionalisierung und Alltagskultur. Vergleichende Fallstudie am Beispiel Freiburgs und Hildesheims 1599–1750 (2002).