Damien Tricoire is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Trier University, Germany, and Associate Member of the Center Roland Mousnier (Sorbonne/CNRS). His research concentrates on the religious, intellectual, informational and social underpinnings of political order, projects, conflicts and revolutions in the European and colonial world from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Lionel Laborie is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research concentrates on the cultural history of ideas and beliefs in early modern Europe, with a particular interest in religious dissenters, transnational networks, radicalism and tolerance in the 'long' eighteenth century.