Introduction
Fabien Montcher and Hilary J. Bernstein
I. Agency and Identity: Telling One’s Story
What’s in a Name? Attesting and Contesting Genoese Family History
in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic
Richard Ibarra
Crusading Engagements: French Nobles’ Family Histories of
Religious Violence
Brian Sandberg
History Writing in Seventeenth-Century French Convents
Linda Lierheimer
Avétik, Louis XIV’s Armenian Prisoner: Narratives of
Confessional Conflict, Captivity, and Conversion in the Early
Modern Mediterranean
Junko Takeda
Puritan Narratives of Encounters in Early Eighteenth-Century
New England
Weiao Xing
II. Communities: Historical Collaborations, Engaged Arguments
Genealogical Histories: A New Literary Genre for an Uncertain Elite
Jonathan Spangler
Before the Bouillon Affair: The Counts of Auvergne and Genealogical
Debate in Early Modern France
Hilary J. Bernstein
Writing History in Provins: Social Positioning and Political
Commentary in a French Provincial Town in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
Nicolas Schapira

Between Conflict and Collaboration: The Official Chronicler
and the Construction of Community Histories in the Kingdom of
Aragon and Beyond
Héloïse Hermant
An Alternative History of Early Modern Global Contacts?
Constructing Historical Narratives of the European Trade
Companies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Indravati Félicité
III. Humanism and History: Textual Traditions and Lived Experience
Writing a History of the Florentine Language: From the Aramei
to the Crusca
Ann E. Moyer
Identifying with the Martyrs: Martyrology and National History
in Ambrosio de Morales
Katherine Elliot van Liere
Giants, Language, and Historical Narratives in 1700
Anita Guerrini
Weaving the Past into the Present: Joachim Jungius’s Historical
Narratives of ‘Contemplative’ Textile Practices Seventeenth-Century
Hamburg
Michael Friedman
Volcano Aesthetics, Scholarly Ascents, and a Return to the Ancient
Past in Early Modern Europe
Ovanes Akopyan