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Maartje van Gelder Editor

Maartje van Gelder is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include a co-edited volume on Cross-Cultural Diplomacy and Diplomatic Intermediaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean (2015) and 'The People’s Prince: Popular Politics in Early Modern Venice', The Journal of Modern History 90.2 (2018): 249–291.

Claire Judde de Larivière is Senior Lecturerin medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Toulouse, and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has recently published The Revolt of Snowballs: Murano Confronts Venice, 1511 (trans. Thomas V. Cohen, 2018).