| The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform Stefan Bauer is a Research Associate at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York. He is an intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe; his research interests cover humanism, religious polemic, church history, and censorship. Bauer is a Privatdozent at the University of Fribourg, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He previously held positions as a Marie Curie Research Fellow in York (2015-2017) and as a Research Fellow both at the German Historical Institute in Rome, and the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trent. His previous publications include The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's Lives of the Popes in the Sixteenth Century (2006) and Polisbild und Demokratieverstandnis in Jacob Burckhardts Griechischer Kulturgeschichte (The Idea of the Polis and the Conception of Democracy in Jacob Burckhardt's History of Greek Civilization) (2001). |