Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...This exceptional new book promises to do much to shape future work on history writing in early modern Europe.
Dr Stefan Bauer is an intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe; his research interests cover humanism, religious polemic, church history and censorship. Dr Bauer is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Co-Editor of Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources. In 2021, he was elected to the Council of the Royal Historical Society.