Notes on Contributors
David Armando is a research director at the Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e scientifico moderno of the Italian National Research Council (ISPF-CNR, Naples), and an associated member of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (Paris). He works on the intersection between cultural, religious, social, and political history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most recent book is La repubblica in collegio. Gli scolopi a Roma tra Lumi e Rivoluzione (Naples, 2023).
Irene Bueno is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bologna. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research encompasses the history of medieval inquisition and religious dissent, the Avignon papacy, and the relations between the papacy and the Christian East in the late medieval period. In Bologna, she co-directs INQUIRE – International Centre for Research on Inquisitions. She is author of Defining Heresy. Inquisition, Theology and Papal Policy in the Time of Jacques Fournier (Leiden, 2015). With Camille Rouxpetel she edited Les récits historiques entre Orient et Occident, XIe–XVe siècles (Rome, 2019).
Maria Teresa Fattori is a researcher at the University of Teramo in the Netex project. Her current work focuses on the relationship between the Catholic Church, abolition and slavery in the early modern period. She has published extensively on the history of the early modern Roman curia, the development of canon law after the Council of Trent, and the history of global Catholicism. Among her publications: Provincial Councils, Rome and the Political Powers in Polycentric Catholicism, 1517–1817 (Vatican City, 2024); Benedetto XIV e Trento. Tradurre il concilio nel Settecento (Stuttgart, 2015); Lettere di Benedetto XIV al marchese Paolo Magnani (1743–1748), edited with Paolo Prodi (Rome, 2011); Clemente VIII e il Sacro Collegio, 1592–1605. Meccanismi istituzionali e accentramento di governo (Stuttgart, 2004).
José M. Floristán is Professor of Ancient Greek at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has specialised in the historical relationships of the Spanish Monarchy with the Greek and Albanian communities of the Ottoman Empire, Naples and Sicily in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Since 2006, he has been the editor of Erytheia, a journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Among his main works is the book Fuentes para la política oriental de los Austrias. La documentación griega del Archivo de Simancas (1571–1621) (2 vols, Universidad de Leon, 1988) as well as numerous book chapters and articles published in several journals.
Jean-Pascal Gay is Professor of History of Christianity (Early Modern and Modern Times) at the Université catholique de Louvain. His research deals with the cultural and social history of theology, with regimes of normativity and ecclesiality in Early Modern Catholicism. He has written extensively on the history of the Society of Jesus and the relations between Rome, especially the Inquisition, and France. Among his works: Jesuit Civil Wars. Theology, politics and government under Tirso González (1687–1705) (Ashgate, 2011); Le dernier théologien? Théophile Raynaud. Histoire d’une obsolescence (Beauchesne, 2018). He recently co-edited, with Albrecht Burkardt, L’Inquisition romaine et la France. Juridiction, doctrine et pluralité des catholicismes européens à l’«âge tridentin» (XVe–XIXe siècle) (École française de Rome, 2024).
Sam Kennerley is Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He researches how Catholics understood the past and present of the non-Latin Churches in the early modern period, having published monographs about Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation (Routledge, 2021) and The Reception of John Chrysostom in Early Modern Europe (De Gruyter, 2022). Dr Kennerley is currently preparing a catalogue of the correspondence of Marcello Cervini, a cardinal-inquisitor and pope who was a leading figure in Rome’s approaches to Eastern Christianity between 1539 and 1555.
Antony Mecherry SJ is Professor of History of the Church and research methodologies at the Faculty of Eastern Christian Studies of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. In 2016 he received his PhD in Church History from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His research field is mainly focused on the problematics related to the history of the Syriac Churches against the backdrop of the Catholic missions. Some selected publications: Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India (Rome, 2019); De Syrorum Orientalium Erroribus (Piscataway, 2021); ‘Understanding the Other in Early Modern India: Some ins and outs of Jesuit Accommodatio’, Cristianesimo nella Storia, 2 (2023).
Emese Muntán is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research primarily delves into the dynamics of religious coexistence in early modern Southeast Europe, particularly focusing on Catholic missions and the dimensions of interfaith engagement between Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Islam. Her publications include ‘Brokering Tridentine Marriage Reforms and Legal Pluralism in Seventeenth-Century Northern Ottoman Rumeli’, in Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (eds), Entangled Confessionalizations? (Piscataway, 2022), and ‘Uneasy Agents of Tridentine Reforms: Catholic Missionaries in Southern Ottoman Hungary and Their Local Competitors in the Early Seventeenth Century’, Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 7/1 (2020).
Silvia Notarfonso obtained her PhD in Early Modern History from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and University of Macerata. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici (University of San Marino), where she is investigating, from a long-term perspective, the history of Bulgarian Paulicians. Among her recent publications: ‘Il rito del kurban tra i pauliciani bulgari: le fonti missionarie (secoli XVII–XVIII)’, Storicamente, 18 (2022) and ‘Religious Imagery, Conflict and Coexistence in the 17th-Century Balkans’, in Giuseppe Capriotti, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, and Sabina Pavone (eds), Eloquent Images: Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period (Leuven, 2022).
Martin Rothkegel studied Classical Philology and Protestant Theology in Hamburg, Thessaloniki, Vienna, and Prague, and Jewish Studies in Potsdam (ThD Prague 2001, Dr. phil. Hamburg 2005, Habilitation Göttingen, 2021). Rothkegel teaches History of Christianity at the Theologische Hochschule Elstal (Berlin). His research focus is on early modern religious nonconformity. Publications include Der Briefwechsel des Joachim Jungius (Göttingen, 2005); Gottfried Seebaß (ed.), Katalog der hutterischen Handschriften (Heidelberg, 2011); The Swiss Brethren: A Story in Fragments (Baden-Baden, 2021); Valentin Krautwald: In evangelium Matthaei annotata, 1530 (Baden-Baden, 2022); Acta Unitatis Fratrum, vols 1–2, Wiesbaden, 2018–2023). Rothkegel is the editor of the handbook series Bibliotheca Dissidentium (Baden-Baden: Koerner).
Cesare Santus teaches Early Modern History at the University of Trieste. His research interests focus on the missionary expansion of Catholicism between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the inquisitorial control of religious minorities, and in particular the relations between the Church of Rome and the Christian East. His book Trasgressioni necessarie (Rome, 2019) examines the confessional dynamics within the Greek and Armenian communities of the Ottoman Empire and their response to the Catholic apostolate. He is also the author of a volume on cultural encounters between Muslim slaves and Catholic citizens in seventeenth-century Tuscany: Il “Turco” a Livorno (Milan, 2019). More recently, he has worked on the role of the Inquisition in Asian missionary controversies and is currently writing a book on the Eastern Christian presence in early modern Rome.
Dennj Solera teaches History of Renaissance and Revolutions at the University of Siena. After the Europaeus doctorate (Florence, 2018), he obtained research fellowships in several institutions in Bologna, Warsaw, Gotha and elsewhere. His first studies are related to the religious and social history in relation to the Papal Inquisition and its collusion with the Italian élites: La società dell’Inquisizione romana (Rome, 2021); ‘La Inquisición romana en el seno de la sociedad’, Sociedades Precapitalistas, 2024; ‘Until Death: Self-Sacrifice and Inquisitorial Apologetics’, in Freya Sierhuis and Francesco Quatrini (eds), Fictions of Sacrifice (London, forthcoming). In recent years, he has focused on European intellectual history and the genesis of the Scientific Revolution: ‘Students at Home: Young Scholars among Pinelli’s Circle in 16th-century Padua’, in Danilo Facca (ed.), The Students and Their Books: Early Modern Practices of Teaching and Learning (Berlin, 2025).
Laurent Tatarenko is a research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), working at the Institute for Early Modern and Modern History (UMR 8066, Paris). Currently, he also holds the position of Director of the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies at the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on the social regulations and institutional knowledge of the Uniate and Orthodox populations of Central and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. He has recently published a monograph entitled Une réforme orientale à l’âge baroque: les Ruthènes de la grande-principauté de Lituanie et Rome au temps de l’Union de Brest (milieu du XVIe – milieu du XVIIe siècle) (Rome, 2021) and, with Marie-Hélène Blanchet and Frédéric Gabriel, a collective work on the history of autocephalies: Autocéphalies: l’exercice de l’indépendance dans les Églises slaves orientales (IXe–XXIe siècle) (Rome, 2021).