Team
The Team in the Summer Semester of 2026
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| Saskia Limbach Saskia Limbach is the PI of the WidowsPrint project. Previously she worked in various projects at universities in Heidelberg, Milan and Mainz, addressing aspects of material history as well as digital humanities. Saskia received her PhD in History from the University of St Andrews and her monograph Government Use of Print. Official Publications in the Holy Roman Empire, 1500–1600 appeared in the series Studien zur Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte of the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. It was awarded the Preis der Geisteswissenschaften by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. Saskia’s research addresses aspects of economic, cultural and legal history with a current focus on the early book business as well as women’s work. Personal website |  |
| Erik Wendlandt For the WidowsPrint project, Erik is currently looking for print runs and information on sold copies in the Early Modern period. For this, he uses archival material like letters, registers, and account books. Drawing on this data, analysed on a larger scale for the first time, Erik will trace the economic conduct of printers as well as the significance of individual books and genres for the book market. |  |
| Hanna de Lange Hanna de Lange is a postdoctoral researcher with the WidowsPrint project at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. She was awarded her PhD in History at the University of St Andrews in 2023, with a thesis examining the circulation of books printed in England on the Northern European book market. From 2024 to 2025, she was a postdoctoral research fellow on the Unlocking the Fagel Collection project at Trinity College Dublin. Within the WidowsPrint project, Hanna investigates the special markets widows focused on, especially periodical publications. She reconstructs the activities and roles of these women and compares them to those in other European regions, including the Low Countries, England, and Denmark. Personal website |  |
| Jessica Farrell-Jobst Jessica Farrell-Jobst is a guest researcher with the WidowsPrint project at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She is a scholar of the early modern period focusing on gender, print culture and concepts of work. She completed her thesis in 2021 at the University of St Andrews, examining the intersection of gender and the book. She has recently published an edited volume, Gender and the Book Trades with Brill in 2025. With the WidowsPrint project, Jessica is furthering her research into bookwomen, analysing the gendered and print realities of the imperial free city of Nuremberg. She also collaborates with the project on themes of women printing for institutions, widows crafting work identities, and gender and printed funeral sermons. |  |
| Lucas Thiemann Lucas supports the project in collecting and managing data on print runs for 16th and 17th century publications. He also investigates the business networks of women printers by examining the reuse of woodblocks and copper plates through a digital analysis of the printed illustrations. This will reveal the previously elusive networks of women printers and further our understanding of the social and business relationships of printers' widows. Personal website |  |
| Paul Schultes Paul Schultes focuses primarily on the printing activities of widows for universities across the Holy Roman Empire. In particular, his research concentrates on the two Protestant university towns of Leipzig and Jena. His main interests is the gender-specific output of print shops, which is closely connected to questions about print runs. He is also interested in the relationship of widow printers and male printers. In this context, he investigates the extent to which gender differences shaped the legal, economic, and social position of widows working for early modern universities. Personal website |  |