Credits

Bruce Gordon | Editor and translator

Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. His research and teaching focus on European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods, with a particular interest in the Reformation and its reception. In 2021 he published Huldrych Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet (Yale). The biography of Zwingli explores the roots of the Reformation and the problematic relationship between religion and violence. He has published numerous other books on the Swiss Reformation and on early modern religious culture, most recently, The Bible: A Global History. His other works include The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism, John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography, and Calvin. In addition, he has edited books and written widely on early modern history writing, biblical culture, Reformation devotion and spirituality, and the place of the dead in pre-modern culture. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012), and the University of King’s College, Dalhousie, in Canada (2019).

Serena Strecker | Digital Editor

Serena Strecker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Yale University specializing in early modern media and religious culture with an emphasis on digital humanities. Her article “Confessional Cross-Pollination: Basel Humanists as Suppliers of Lutheran and Catholic Exempla” in Religions showcases the vital role of Swiss humanists in cross-confessional networks of information exchange and religious discourse in early modern Europe by using the text analysis and concordance software AntConc. Her article “Unlocking the Digitized Archive of Early Modern Print: The Automated Transcription of Sixteenth-Century Printed Books,” forthcoming in the Sixteenth Century Journal discusses issues of labor ethics in the use of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) software and proposes a practical, ethical workflow for transcribing early modern print with HTR. Her dissertation examines early modern Lutheran and Catholic exempla collections using digital humanities methods, including HTR transcription, AntConc, and network analysis.

Acknowledgments

Turicum would like to thank Kayla Shipp and Gavi Levy Haskell at the Yale DHLab for their invaluable assistance conceptualizing this project and facilitating its Version 1.0.

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