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Ruth Atherton is a Lecturer in History at the University of South Wales. She completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2018. Ruth’s thesis examined the nature of the sacramental knowledge that was taught in 16th- century German language catechisms. More broadly, Ruth’s work explores the development of early- modern confessional identities, focusing in particular on late medieval and early modern educational development, and religious, social, political and cultural change.
Stephen Bates is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Northampton. He was formerly Lecturer in History at Warwick and a Visiting Lecturer at Newman University. He has published several essays on the Virgin Mary and is currently preparing a monograph on her changing place in 16th- century England.
Philip Booth is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University currently working on the history of Christian Holy Land pilgrimage. He received his PhD from Lancaster University in 2017, and his research interests are in the religious cultures of the Middle Ages and medieval travel.
Zachary Chitwood is a specialist in Byzantine Studies at Johannes Gothenburg University, Mainz in Germany. He was previously a research fellow on the erc- Project “Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross- cultural Comparisons” at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published numerous essays and articles as well as the volume Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867– 1056 (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph: Memoria in the Byzantine World.
Ralph Dekoninck is a Professor of the History of Art in the Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres (inca) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a specialist in early modern religious art. He has published extensively on baroque spectacle, with particular reference to the art of the Jesuits. His extensive recent works include Cultures du spectacle baroque (2019) and the co- edited volume Les images miraculeuses de la Vierge au premier âge moderne (2015).
Freddy C. Domnguez is a historian of early modern Europe with a focus on politics and religion. His first book was Radicals in Exile: English Catholic Books during the Reign of Philip II (2020). He is currently editing a collection of essays on “Spanish Elizabethans” and a monograph on Maria de la Visitación, the so- called Nun of Lisbon.
Anna M. Duch is an Assistant Professor and the faculty lead in World History at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN. She has published several essays, including the recent “Chasing St. Louis: England’s Pursuit of Sainthood” in The Routledge History of Monarchy (2019) and “ ‘King by Fact, not by Law’: Legitimacy and Exequies in Medieval England,” in Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2019). She received her PhD from the University of York. Her research focuses on the special medieval dead, particularly royalty and saints.
Jacqueline Eales is Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University and former President of the Historical Association (2011– 14). She has published extensively on the English Civil wars, Puritanism and early modern women. She is currently working on the roles of women in early modern clerical families and her recent publications include “Religion in Times of War and Republic, 1642– 1660” in Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion (2017) and “Anne and Thomas Fairfax and the Vere Connection” in A. Hopper and Philip Major (eds), England’s Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, Lord Fairfax (2014).
Madeleine Gray is Professor at the University of South Wales and a medieval historian. She has close links with a number of heritage and community organisations and is an honorary research fellow of the National Museum of Wales. She has published extensively on late medieval and early modern history with a particular focus on visual evidence for the history of religious belief and practice. She appears regularly on television and radio and is currently working on a survey of medieval tomb carvings in Wales.
Polina Ignatova recently completed her PhD in history at Lancaster University. She is particularly interested in how knowledge was generated and received in the Middle Ages. She is currently working on developing her thesis into a monograph, provisionally titled Raising the Dead: The Meaning and Purpose of Restless Corpses in Medieval English Narratives. She is also looking at the ways aquatic organisms were studied in the Middle Ages and hopes to develop this research into a postdoctoral project.
Robert Marcoux is Associate Professor of Medieval art at Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada). His field of research focuses on tombs and the image of the human corpse in the Middle Ages. In addition to a funded project on the tomb slabs of medieval France, his current work centres on the iconography of Lazarus and on the concept of the macabre in art history.
Christopher Ocker is Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry in the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He was until recently professor of history at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Ocker specializes in the history of religion in Europe, medieval and early modern intellectual and cultural history, and the social and political history of late medieval and early modern Central Europe. His most recent book is Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West (2018).
Gordon D. Raeburn obtained his PhD in early modern Scottish burial practices from the University of Durham in 2013, and from 2014 to 2017 he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the arc Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 he was the inaugural John Emmerson Research Fellow at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. His research interests include early modern death and emotion, developments of communal identity, and emotional manipulation as a weapon of war.
Ludwig Steindorff is a specialist in the history of Old Russia, the medieval history of South- Eastern Europe, national and denominational identity in South- Eastern Europe since the 19th century, and the state and church under socialism. He is Emeritus Professor at the Christian- Albrechts- University in Kiel, where he is also scientific director of the Schleswig- Holstein University Society. He is a prolific author on religious history and his most recent book, with Olivier Auge, is Monastische Kultur als transkonfessionelles Phänomen (2016). He was recently awarded the cau medal of honour and made an honorary doctor at the University of Split, Croatia in 2019.
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 and her latest book is Sacred Journeys: Long Distance Pilgrimage in NorthWestern Europe in the Counter Reformation (2020).
Christina Welch lectures in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester and leads a master’s degree by distance learning in Death, Religion and Culture. She is a dyslexic interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in the intersection between religion, and visual and material culture, especially in relation to death. She works collaboratively with a historian exploring a Victorian cemetery, and with an archaeologist on heritage in the Anglophone Caribbean.
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