Jan Machielsen is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. He is the author of Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation (Oxford 2015) and The War on Witchcraft: Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography (Cambridge 2021). An expert on the early modern witch-hunt and demonology, he has also written on seminal early modern intellectual figures such Cesare Baronio, Jean Bodin, Michel de Montaigne, and Justus Lipsius.