Notes on the Contributors
Barbara Baert
is a professor at the University of Leuven. She teaches in the fields of iconology, art theory, and medieval art. In 2006, she founded the Iconology Research Group, an international and interdisciplinary platform for the study of the interpretation of images. Her most recent books are: Kairos or Occasion as Paradigm in the Visual Medium. Nachleben, Iconography, Hermeneutics, Studies in Iconology 5 (2016); and (ed. with S. Rochmes), Decapitation and Sacrifice. St. John’s Head in Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Text, Object, Medium, Art & Religion 6 (2017). In 2016, Barbara Baert was awarded the prestigious Francqui Prize for Human Sciences.
Mira Becker-Sawatzky
has been a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre “Episteme in Motion” at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2012. In April 2017 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, which will be published in 2018 under the title Scientia & vaghezza im ästhetischen Diskurs der Lombardei des Cinquecento – Zum Verhältnis von bildkünstlerischer Praxis und Texten zur Malerei. Her research interests include the aesthetics of the grotesque; art and art theory in sixteenth century Lombardy; the relation of theory and practice in the aesthetic discourse; and art academies in Italy and France from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century.
Agata Anna Chrzanowska
is an associated lecturer at the British Institute of Florence. She obtained her PhD from Durham University and she specialises in the study of fifteenth-century Florentine painting and its relationship with philosophy, religion, and popular culture. Her research interests include Domenico Ghirlandaio and Filippo Lippi’s artistic production, Neoplatonism in art, Medicean patronage, and the relationship between art and theatre in Early Modern Europe. Her professional collaborations include the Photo Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in the Florenz Max-Planck-Institut and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Wolfgang Fuhrmann
teaches in the Department of Musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). He graduated from the University of Vienna with a PhD thesis on medieval musical ethics/aesthetics, which was published in 2004 under the title Herz und Stimme. Innerlichkeit, Affekt und Gesang im Mittelalter (2004). His second thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Berne dealt with the reception of Joseph Haydn’s music between 1750 and 1815. Fuhrmann has published on Wagner’s leitmotivs, including Ahnung und Erinnerung (2013; co-authored with Melanie Wald) as well as the operas of Bizet, most recently Bizet. Carmen (2016). He is currently under contract with Laaber publishers to write a history of fifteenth-century music to be published as Volume 1 of the Handbuch der Musik der Renaissance.
Michaela Kaufmann
is currently a research fellow at the music department of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, and a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. She is completing her dissertation on the concept(ualisation)s of musical experience around 1600 using prefaces to music prints in the early seventeenth century as a main source. Her second area of interest dwells on the relationship of knowledge and music appreciations processes. Together with psychologists she is conducting experiments examining factors of music appreciation, such as framing information about the music or the listener’s expertise and preferences.
Andreas Keller
is a research associate at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, and a Privatdozent at the University of Potsdam. His areas of expertise include cultural history (with a focus on literature and arts) of the early modern period, the Renaissance, and the Reformation; rhetoric in theory and practice; emblematic arts; imagology; religion and confession; area studies; and the theory of translation. Among his book publications: Michael Kongehl (1646–1710). “Durchwandert ihn/ gewiß! ihr werdet anders werden …”. Transitorische Textkonstitution und persuasive Adressatenlenkung auf der Basis rhetorischer Geneseprinzipien im Gesamtwerk des Pegnitzschäfers in Preußen (2004); Frühe Neuzeit. Das rhetorische Zeitalter (2008); (with Winfried Siebers) Reiseliteratur. Vom Pilgerbericht bis zum Reiseblog (2017); Trauma, Raum und Sprache. Die Poetik des Physiologen Carl Hauptmann (1858–1921) (forthcoming).
Eva-Bettina Krems
is the chair for art history at the University of Münster (since 2012). Her research focuses on cultural transfer in the early modern period; courtly representation with a focus on media and rituals; Raphael and Italian Renaissance art; portrait culture; and the spatial, artistic, and musical aspects of mise-en-scène and performance. Her book publications include: Die Wittelsbacher und Europa: Kulturtransfer am frühneuzeitlichen Hof (2012); (ed. with C. Kampmann et al.) Neue Modelle im Alten Europa: Traditionsbruch und Innovation als Herausforderung in der Frühen Neuzeit (2012); (ed. with Sigrid Ruby), Das Porträt als kulturelle Praxis (2016); and (ed. with K. Deutsch and C. Echinger-Maurach) Baden im Schloss – Gestalt und Funktion höfischer Bäder in der Frühen Neuzeit (2017).
Damaris Leimgruber
studied musicology and German literature at the University of Zurich with an emphasis on Medieval studies. Since October 2013 she is a PhD candidate at the NCCR Mediality at the University of Zurich, working on the project “Poetisches Spiel und mediale Transgression in der Dichtung des 17. Jahrhunderts”, under the direction of M. Schnyder. Her PhD project examines aesthetics of music and musical aesthetics – particularly “Klangsprache” and echo – in seventeenth century literature.
Tobias Leuker
born in Bamberg in 1968, is a Professor of Italian, Spanish and French Literature at the University of Münster. His main areas of research are the Middle Ages (Dante, Libro de Buen Amor, troubadour poetry) and the Renaissance (Ronsard, Tasso, Siglo de Oro poetry), including Neo-Latin literature and themes concerning art history. In 2012, he received the Premio Torquato Tasso. His numerous publications include four monographs: Angelo Poliziano – Dichter, Redner, Stratege (1997); Dürer als ikonographischer Neuerer (Freiburg i. Br.: 2001); Bausteine eines Mythos – Die Medici in Kunst und Dichtung des 15. Jahrhunderts (2007); Vom Adamsspiel bis Jodelle – Theologische und humanistische Gelehrsamkeit im frühen französischen Theater (2016). He is the co-editor of: (with Rotraud von Kulessa) Nobilitierung vs. Divulgierung? Strategien zur Aufbereitung von Wissen in romanischen Dialogen, Lehrgedichten und Erzähltexten der Frühen Neuzeit (2011); (with K. Enenkel and Ch. Pieper) Iohannes de Certaldo. Beiträge zu Boccaccios lateinischen Werken und ihrer Wirkung (2015); and (with Ch. Pietsch) Klassik als Norm – Norm als Klassik. Kultureller Wandel als Suche nach funktionaler Vollendung (2016).
Christian Peters
received his M.Ed. in Latin and history from the University of Münster in 2010 and has been a research associate with the Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, and of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster from 2010 to 2017. His Ph.D. thesis (2014) was published in 2016 (Mythologie und Politik. Die panegyrische Funktionalisierung der paganen Götter im lateinischen Epos des 15. Jahrhunderts). His research interests include political and ideological functions of literature, the reception and transformation of classical mythology in Neo-Latin poetry, and Jesuit educational literature, on all of which he has published recently.
Christoph Pieper
is University Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. He received his PhD from Bonn University in 2008. His research focuses on elegiac and epigrammatic poetry of the Italian fifteenth century, on the encomiastic poetry at the Malatesta court in Rimini, on Cicero and his reception in antiquity and beyond, and on Ovid. He has written a monograph on the Xandra by Cristoforo Landino (Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere: Cristoforo Landinos Xandra zwischen Liebe und Gesellschaft, Hildesheim – New York: 2008), and has co-edited the following volumes: (with Karl Enenkel and Marc Laureys) Discourses of Power: Ideology and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature (2012); (with J. Ker) Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World: Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII (2014); (with Karl Enenkel and Tobias Leuker) Iohannes de Certaldo. Beiträge zu Boccaccios lateinischen Werken und ihrer Wirkung (2015); (with J. de Jong and A. Rademaker) Beïnvloeden met emoties. Pathos en retorica (2015); and (with C. Damon) Eris vs. Aemulatio. Competition in Classical Antiquity (forthcoming).
Bernd Roling
is Professor of Classical and Medieval Latin at the Department of Greek and Latin Philology of the Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include high medieval and early modern Latin poetry, medieval and early modern philosophy, especially philosophy of language; the history of early modern science, university history, with special focus on Scandinavia; and early modern esoteric traditions. Recent monographs are: Aristotelische Naturphilosophie und christliche Kabbalah und im Werk des Paulus Ritius (2007); Locutio angelica. Die Diskussion der Engelsprache als Antizipation einer Sprechakttheorie in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2008); Drachen und Sirenen: Die Aufarbeitung und Abwicklung der Mythologie an den europäischen Universitäten (2010); Physica Sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2013); and, as critical editor with I. Ventura and B. van den Abeele, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, vol. 1 (2007). He is currently preparing a book on the Swedish polymath Olaus Rudbeck and his reception in eighteenth century Northern Europe.