Nicholas Hardy, Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham,Dmitri Levitin, Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Nicholas Hardy is a Birmingham Fellow in the School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham. He took his BA and DPhil at Oxford before becoming a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Apart from his recent monograph, Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters (2017), he has published on the early modern reception of the classical poet Lucretius, and on the King James Version of the Bible. He is currently working on the vernacular contexts and readerships of biblical philology in seventeenth-century England.


Dmitri Levitin is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has published extensively on various aspects of early modern European intellectual culture. His first monograph, Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science (2015), considered visions of the history of ancient philosophy in the seventeenth century. In 2016 he was awarded the inaugural Leszek Kołakowski Prize in the History of Ideas.

Dmitri Levitin, University of Oxford
Arnoud Visser, Utrecht University
Madeline McMahon, Princeton University
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Nicholas Hardy, University of Birmingham
Simon Ditchfield, University of York
Aurelien Girard, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Jean-Louis Quantin, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Scott Mandelbrote, University of Cambridge
Jan Loop, University of Kent

"Its chapters stand individually as worthy contributions, including the highly detailed treatment of regional trends in confessionalization offered in Dmitri Levitin's introduction." -- Jason E. Cohen, Reformation