Dominik Fugger (PhD 2006, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) currently researches the early modern histories of ideas, religion, and scholarship. He has published widely on early modern festival culture, ritual theory, and historiography. Building upon his extensive work on the early modern scholarly perception and theorising of paganism, Fugger spent his POLY fellowship exploring the concept of polytheism: how it may be used by historians to understand identity formation within Christianity, especially within polycentric processes occurring along or across denominational boundaries.