Harald Ernst Braun, D.Phil. Oxon. (2001), is Reader in European History (1300–1700) at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on early modern Catholic, especially Spanish political thought and culture.Erik De Bom, Ph.D. (2009, KU Leuven) is Research Fellow at that university. He has published on the history of political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, early modern intellectual history and Renaissance humanism.Paolo Astorri, Ph.D. (2018, KU Leuven) is Postdoctoral Researcher in Legal History at the University of Copenhagen, Centre for Privacy Studies. His book Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520–1720), published in Brill’s new series Law and Religion in Early Modern Period, won the REFORC book award in 2020.