Eyal Poleg is a reader (associate professor) in Material History at Queen Mary University of London. He is a historian of premodern objects and faith and the Principal Investigator of Hidden in Pain Sight: Historical and Scientific Analysis of Premodern Sacred Books. He has published widely on the late medieval and the early modern Bible, most recently in his latest monograph: A Material History of the Bible. England 1200-1553 (OUP, 2020). He often liaise with scientists, curators and conservators in the analysis of historical objects, advancing the use of new technologies, from DNA and proteomics to microscopy and XRF, within historical and book-historical analyses.