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.