Contributors
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John W. Head is the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas, where he has been a faculty member since 1990. Before his academic career, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. and also served as legal counsel for both the Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. His teaching and research focus on international law, international business, and comparative law, with an emphasis on legal history and Chinese law. He is the author of several books, including Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective (2011). He has received Fulbright fellowships to China and Italy and has also taught in various other countries.
John Watkins is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where he holds affiliate appointments in history, medieval studies, and Italian studies. With Kathryn Reyerson and Patricia Lorcin, he co-convenes the Research Collaborative on the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa within the Minnesota Institute of Global Studies. He has written several books and numerous articles dealing with problems of historiography, cultural and diplomatic exchanges between England and the Mediterranean, and the classical and medieval underpinnings of early modernity.
Ana Isabel López-Salazar received her PhD from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). She is a researcher at the CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades) at the University of Évora (Portugal). Her research concerns the relationships among the Portuguese Inquisition, the New Christians, the Crown and the Holy See in the seventeenth century. She is also interested in the relationship between the Portuguese and the Spanish Inquisitions. Her main publications are Inquisición portuguesa y Monarquía Hispánica en tiempos del perdón general de 1605 (Lisbon, 2010) and Inquisición y política. El gobierno del Santo Oficio en el Portugal de los Austrias. 1578–1653 (Lisbon, 2011). [End Page 155]
Vaios Vaiopoulos is associate professor of Latin literature at Ionian University, Greece. His major publications include “The Concept of Hope in Roman Elegiac Poetry,” (Athens, 1999, PhD thesis, in Modern Greek); The Elegiac Hero Caelo Missus (Athens, 2000, in Modern Greek); F.-C.-H.-L. Pouqueville, The Orientalis Variety of the Plague: Introduction, Original Text, Translation, Annotations (Athens, 2005, in collaboration with D. Anogiatis, in Modern Greek); and The New Ways of History, Developments in Historiography (London, 2010, coedited with N. Karapidakis, G. Harlaftis, and K. Sbonias). [End Page 156]
