Claudio Ferlan (PhD in Early Modern History 2007, University of Trieste) is a Researcher of Early Modern History at the Italian-German Historical Institute of Trent. In the Winter Term 2025/26, he was a POLY Writing Fellow in the Writing Group "Embodying Christianities." During the group's meetings at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg in December 2025 and May 2026, he developed his contribution to the first volume of POLY's forthcoming three-volume book project, Doing Christianity: A Praxeological Guide to Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities.