Harald E. Braun is Lecturer in European History (1300-1700) at the University of Liverpool. His publications include
Juan de Mariana SJ (1535-1624) and
Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (2007). Edward Vallance is Reader in Early Modern History at London's Roehampton University. His most recent publication is A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries, the Men and Women Who Fought for Our Freedoms (2009).