Doris Moreno

Doris Moreno is Professor of Early Modern History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has conducted research and published books and numerous articles on the Spanish Inquisition, sixteenth-century Spanish Protestantism, and the Society of Jesus. Across all these topics runs a general interest in the study of cultural and religious history, as well as in the boundary between tolerance and intolerance, its theorisation and its practice.

Among her publications are Casiodoro de Reina. Freedom and Tolerance in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Seville, 2017), The Invention of the Inquisition (Madrid, 2004), and Inquisition. A Critical History (with R. García Cárcel, Madrid, 2000); “Programs of Moral and Religious Reform: Inquisitions”, in Judging Faith, Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World, edited by Gretchen Starr-Le Beau (University of Kentucky) and Charles H. Parker (Saint Louis University), 2017; “Protestants”, in The Spanish Inquisition. The Cambridge Companion, edited by Lu Ann Homza, Cambridge University Press (2026); and “The autos de fe of Valladolid in 1559: an emotional and political spectacle”, in Investigaciones Históricas, época moderna y contemporánea, 44 (2024).

José Pedro Paiva

José Pedro Paiva holds a PhD in History and is Full Professor at the University of Coimbra. He served as Director of the University Archive and of the Faculty of Arts of the same university. He is a senior researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC), a collaborator of the Centre for the Study of Religious History (CEHR–UCP), and a member of the Portuguese Academy of History and of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. He has participated in and coordinated several national and international projects, has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), and a fellow of the John Carter Brown Library (USA) and of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands).

He has published extensively on Portuguese Early Modern History, religious history, the Inquisition, Catholic reform, witchcraft and sorcery in the early modern period, the Misericórdias, and the history of the Portuguese overseas empire. Among his main works is History of the Portuguese Inquisition (1536–1821) (Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros, 2013), co-authored with Giuseppe Marcocci, and his participation in the Scientific Committee of the project Dizionario Storico dell’Inquisizione (Pisa: Edizione della Normale, 2010), directed by Adriano Prosperi, with the collaboration of John Tedeschi and Vincenzo Lavenia.

Pedro Guibovich

Pedro Manuel Guibovich Pérez. PhD in History from Columbia University, New York. Full Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of the Pacific, in Lima. He has been a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University), the Beinecke Library (Yale University), and the Center for the Study of Books and Media (Princeton University), among other institutions. His three primary fields of study are the history of books and reading, the history of the Church, and the Inquisition in the Viceroyalty of Peru. 

He has published the following books: Censura, libros e Inquisición en el Peru colonial, 1570-1754 (2003); Lecturas prohibidas. La censura inquisitorial de libros en el Perú tardío colonial (2013); El edificio de letras. Jesuitas, educación y sociedad en el Perú colonial (2014); Imprimir en Lima durante la colonia. Historia y documentos, 1584-1750 (2019); El Argos de la Fe. Los textos censurados por la Inquisición de Lima (2023); Lectores, libros e intelectuales. La función social de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú (2025). He is currently preparing a study on books and readers in the Viceroyalty of Peru.