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Dr Celeste McNamara is Assistant Professor of history in the School of History and Geography, Dublin City University, Ireland. She is a specialist in early modern Italian history, Catholic Reform, and religious culture. She is the author of The Bishop’s Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy (The Catholic University of America Press, 2020). Currently she is working on a project entitled Sin in the Serenissima: Illicit Sexuality in Early Modern Venice, which examines the policing of sexual morality by both secular and ecclesiastical officials.

Miles Pattenden is Program Director of the Europaeum, Oxford and a researcher at Deakin University. He is a historian of the Catholic Church and the political history of Italy and Spain from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. He is the author of Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700 (2017) and Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (2013). Miles is co-editor of the Journal of Religious History.

Joshua Rushton is a social and cultural historian of early modern religious life with a focus on Catholicism, Italy and global environments. Josh is currently Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. Josh was recently awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his new project ‘Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World’ which he will carry out at the University of Manchester.

Paul Watt is an adjunct professor of musicology at The University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (2017), The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England (2018) and Music, Morality and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2024). He is currently writing a book on a cultural history of Gregorian chant in Australia. Paul is editorial manager for the Journal of Religious History.