Julia Derzsi is a senior research fellow at the Romanian Academy, the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu. Her main research interests are institutional, economic and urban history in premodern Transylvanian, particulary Saxon towns. Her previous publications include Delict .i pedeaps.: Justi.ie penal. în ora.ele s.se.ti din Transilvania în secolul al XVI-lea [Crime and punishment: The functioning of criminal jurisdiction in the Transylvanian Saxon towns in the 16th century] (Cluj-Napoca: Egyetemi M.hely Kiadó, 2022).