Mária Pakucs-Willcocks (maria.pakucs@iini.ro) is a senior researcher with the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History and a research fellow of the New Europe College in Bucharest. Her research has focused on trade and merchants between Transylvania and the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, and on urban history and political discourse. Most recent publications include “Trade Routes and Commercial Networks in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe in the Light of Transylvanian Sources,” in Cities and Economy in Europe. Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Katalin Szende et al. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024), 266-284 and the edition of the customs accounts of Sibiu, Zwanzigstrechungen aus dem Archiv der Stadt Hermannstadt (1536-1623) (Sibiu: Honterus, 2023).