Liesbeth Geevers Editor

Dr Liesbeth Geevers is a postdoctoral researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). From 2008 to 2011 she was a lecturer of Political History at Utrecht University. She has published on the dynastic identity of William of Orange in the 1560s and the identity of the Nassau dynasty (1541-1616) and is currently studying the position of dynastic juniors in Eurasian empires (1300-1800). Mirella Marini obtained a BA in Law (1996) and an MA in history (2006) at the KU Leuven (Belgium). Her doctoral research on the religious patronage of high noble women is undertaken at the VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Marini has published on female diplomacy, funeral culture and the politics of dynastic marriages.