Practising Piety

Marlene Dirschauer earned a doctoral degree in Comparative literature from Freie Universität Berlin. Her main areas of research are British modernist literature and early modern devotional poetry. She is the author of Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf (2023).Rogier Gerrits is a literary scholar at the University of Hamburg where he obtained a doctoral degree in Romance Studies. He has published articles on early modern French literature and is co-editor of Reproducing Miracles. On Media and the Miraculous in Early Modern Europe (2025). Marc Föcking is Professor of Romance Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has written books and many articles on Italian spiritual poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and on French novels and medical knowledge in the nineteenth century. He is co-editor of A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento (2023).Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University. He has extensively published on the history of the Reformation and of Protestantism more widely. He is the author of Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013) and Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019).