Linn Holmberg is a Pro Futura Scientia fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden, and a researcher and teacher in History of Science and Ideas at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of the award-winning dissertation The Forgotten Encyclopedia (2014) and the book The Maurists' Unfinished Encyclopedia (2017).

Maria Simonsen is a senior researcher and teacher in Book History and History of Knowledge at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has published widely on the history of Scandinavian encyclopedias and is the author of the award-winning Den skandinaviske encyklopædi (2016).

Investigates the obstacles to knowledge dissemination

Contributes to the study of book history, history of encyclopedias, encyclopedism, and lexicography as well as history of knowledge

Considers script, print, and digital cultures

1. Why Explore Stranded Encyclopedias?, Linn Holmberg.- 2. Stranding in the Encyclopédie: The Case of Samuel Formey's Philosophical Dictionary, 1742-1747, Annelie Grosse.- 3 (Re)Inventing a New Economic Encyclopedia: The Stranding of the Abbé Morellet's Ambitious Nouveau dictionnaire de commerce (1769), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.- 4. Stranded Encyclopedias in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Exploring the Rise of Alphabetical Encyclopedism, Linn Holmberg.- 5. Failure to Launch: Stranded Geographies in Italy and the Dizionario di geografica (1797),Clorinda Donato.- 6. Stranded Encyclopedic Medical Dictionaries in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spain, Bertha Gutiérrez-Rodilla & Carmen Quijada-Diez.- 7. The Brazilian Encyclopedia: A Stranded Dream, Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb, Márcia H. M. Ferraz, Elaine Pereira de Souza, & Silvia Waisse.- 8. Stranded in Time: Andrew Clark and the Language of World War I, Lynda Mugglestone.- 9. A Successfully Stranded Translator's Dictionary: Arnold Lissance's Underappreciated Attempt to Create the Perfect Resource for Translators, Stefanie Kremmel & Marija Ivanovi¿.- 10. The Rise and Fall of Danish Encyclopedias, 1891-2017, Maria Simonsen.