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Stephen Bowd Editor

Stephen Bowd is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Edinburgh and the author of studies of the Bresciano, among other works on Renaissance Italy. He has recently published Renaissance Mass Murder: Civilians and Soldiers during the Italian Wars (2018). Sarah Cockram specializes in gender history and historical animal studies. Sarah’s recent interests include animal emotion, companion animal health, and care of exotics. Sarah has taught at the University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh and is currently a member of the Renaissance Skin project team at King’s College London. John Gagné is Senior Lecturer in History and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney. Much of his research focuses on cultural problems in the history of premodern war, especially the Italian Wars of the early sixteenth century. He is the author most recently of Milan Undone (2021).