WILLEM DE BLECOURT Honorary Research Fellow, the Huizinga Institute and the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands ROBIN BRIGGS Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, UK OSCAR DI SIMPLICIO former Professor of Modern History, the University of Florence, Italy JONATHAN DURRANT Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Glamorgan, UK SARAH FERBER Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Queensland, Australia. MALCOLM GASKILL Reader in Early Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK JULIAN GOODARE Reader in Scottish History, the University of Edinburgh, UK ALISON ROWLANDS Senior Lecturer in European History, the University of Essex, UK ROLF SCHULTE Teaching Fellow, the University of Kiel, Germany RITA VOLTMER Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Pre-Modern History, the University of Trier, Germany