Harald E. Braun is Senior Lecturer in European History (1300-1700) at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (2007). He co-edited Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe (2004), The Renaissance Conscience (2011), and Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic (2013), and has published articles and chapters on early modern intellectual history, especially the history of early modern Spanish political thought, culture, and communication. Jesús Pérez-Magallón is Professor of Hispanic Studies at McGill University. His principal areas of research are the origins of modernity, particularly the transition from the Baroque to the Enlightenment, and nineteenth-century intellectual history. Other research areas are the Hispanic Baroque, Golden Age Drama, and Textuality and Nationalism. He has published extensively, including Construyendo la modernidad. La cultura española en el tiempo de los novatores (1675-1725) (2002), and Calderón. Icono cultural e identitario del conservadurismo político (2010). He was awarded the Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil by the Spanish government (2009), and is a recipient of the McGill University-Faculty of Arts Award for High Distinction in Research (2000).