The editors of the volumes Gàbor Almàsi, Szymon BrzeziÅ,,ski, Ildikò Horn, Kees Teszelszky and aron Zarnòczki are based at Hungarian, Polish and Dutch institutions of historical research. Their collaboration is the result of a joint research programme generously financed by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.Gàbor Almàsi is a Research Fellow at the Eötvös Lorànd University of Budapest. He graduated from the Eötvös Lorànd University and University College London, and obtained his PhD at the Central European University in Budapest. His publications include The Uses of Humanism: Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), and the East Central European Republic of Letters (Leiden 2009).Szymon BrzeziÅ,,ski is a PhD student at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, and Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary, Eötvös Lorànd University, Budapest. His research concentrates on the history of Polish-Hungarian relations, with his PhD project focusing on Polish-Transylvanian relations in the years 1539-1571. He is the author of the book Tanulmànyok a 16.

-17. szàzadi lengyel-erdèlyi-magyar kapcsolattörtènetrÅ'l [Studies of the History of Relationships between Poland, Transylvania and Hungary in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries] (2014).Ildikò Horn is a Lecturer and Head of the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary at the Eötvös Lorànd University of Budapest, from where she also graduated and obtained her PhD. She studies the history of politics, culture and mentality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hungary and Transylvania. Her publications include Hit ès hatalom: az erdèlyi unitàrius nemessèg 16. szàzadi törtènete [Faith and Power: The History of 16th-century Unitarian Nobility in Transylvania] (2009).Kees Teszelszky is a Research Fellow at the Eötvös Lorànd University of Budapest and Temporary Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He graduated from Leiden and Amsterdam, and obtained his PhD in Groningen (2006).

His publications include Az ismeretlen korona. Jelentèsek, szimbòlumok ès nemzeti identitàs [The Unknown Crown: Meanings, Symbols and National Identity] (2009).aron Zarnòczki is a PhD student at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary at the Eötvös Lorànd University of Budapest. His research interests include the history of Hungary's and Transylvania's early modern diplomatic relations, with special regard to England, and the history of the English embassy at Constantinople. He has been the author of several articles, the editor of four volumes, and has organised several conferences.