The War of the Spanish Succession

Matthias Pohlig is Professor of Early Modern History at the Westfaelische Wilhelms University in Muenster. His publications include the monograph Zwischen Gelehrsamkeit und konfessioneller Identitaetsstiftung: Lutherische Kirchen- und Universalgeschichtsschreibung 1546-1617 (2007) and several volumes of collected essays on early modern historiography, religious history, and questions of historical theory. His book about information gathering during the War of the Spanish Succession, Marlboroughs Geheimnis: Strukturen und Funktionen der Informationsgewinnung im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg, was published in 2016.

Michael Schaich is the deputy director of the German Historical Institute London. He specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and German history. Among his publications are Staat und OEffentlichkeit im Kurfuerstentum Bayern der Spaetaufklaerung (2001) and as editor (with R. J. W. Evans and Peter H. Wilson) The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 (2011) and (with Andreas Gestrich) The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (2015). His current research focuses on the symbolic representation of the British monarchy and state under the Stuarts and Hanoverians.