Notes on the Editors
Karl Enenkel
is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster (Germany). Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at Leiden University (Netherlands). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300–1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science. Among his major book publications are Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. (1991), Die Erfindung des Menschen. Die Autobiographik des frühneuzeitlichen Humanismus von Petrarca bis Lipsius (2008), and Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350–ca. 1650). Zur autorisierenden und wissensvermittelnden Funktion von Widmungen, Vorworttexten, Autorporträts und Dedikationsbildern (2014). He has (co-)edited and co-authored some 25 volumes, among others, Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance (1998), Recreating Ancient History (2001), Mundus Emblematicus. Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books (2003), Cognition and the Book (2004), Petrarch and his Readers (2006), Early Modern Zoology (2007), The Sense of Suffering. Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture (2009), The Neo-Latin Epigram (2009), Meditatio – Refashioning the Self. Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (2011), Portuguese Humanism (2011), The Authority of the Word (2011), Discourses of Power. Ideology and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature (2012), The Reception of Erasmus (2013), Transformation of the Classics (2013), Die Vita als Vermittlerin von Wissenschaft und Werk (2013), Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge (2013), Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period (2015), Jesuit Image Theory (2016), and Emblems and the Natural World (2017). He has founded the international series Intersections (Brill); Proteus. Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation; Speculum Sanitatis: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medical Culture (500–1800) (both Brepols), and Scientia universalis. Studien und Texteditionen zur Wissensgeschichte der Vormoderne (LIT-Verlag).
Anita Traninger
is Professor of Romance Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, where she is the director of two multi-annual research projects: one on Lope de Vega’s decisive role in the development of the Spanish Golden Age novel, which is part of a research group on “Discursivizations of the New”; and one in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre “Episteme in Bewegung”, on the ‘question’ as an epistemic genre in the French learned societies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her areas of research include the history and theory of rhetoric, logic and literature, transcultural networks in European literature and discourses of knowledge from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, the history of gender and institutions, and historical shifts of the fact/fiction divide.
Among her book publications are Mühelose Wissenschaft. Rhetorik und Lullismus in den deutschsprachigen Ländern der Frühen Neuzeit (2001), Macht Wissen Wahrheit, ed. with K.W. Hempfer (2005), Dynamiken des Wissens, ed. with K.W. Hempfer (2007), Fiktionen des Faktischen in der Renaissance, ed. with U. Schneider (2010). Her most recent book publications are on practices of conflict and genres of debate shared by and jointly shaped by scholasticism and humanism (Disputation, Deklamation, Dialog. Medien und Gattungen europäischer Wissensverhandlungen zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus, 2012), on The Emergence of Impartiality (ed. with K. Murphy, 2014), and on Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period (ed. with Karl A.E. Enenkel, 2015).