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 (2015). With Koen Ottemheym he wrote Oudheid als ambitie. De zoektocht naar een passend verleden 1400–1700 (2017). He has (co)edited and co-authored some 30 volumes on a great variety of topics, 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), Zoology in Early Modern Culture (2014), Iohannes de Certaldo. Beiträge zu Boccaccios lateinischen Werken und ihrer Wirkung (2015), Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period (2015), Jesuit Image Theory (2016), Emblems and the Natural World (2017), and The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture (2018). He has founded the international series Intersections. Studies in Early Modern Culture (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). He is member of the Conseil international pour l’edition des oeuvres complètes d’Erasme. Currently he prepares a critical edition of and a commentary on Erasmus’s Apophthegmata, books V–VIII.
Konrad Ottenheym
is professor for architectural history at Utrecht University and director of the national postgraduate school for art history in the Netherlands (Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis). In his work he focusses on European architecture of the early modern period with a special attention to the Low Countries and its relationships with other European regions. Among other things, he has studied the life and works of some of the leading architects of the Dutch Republic, the reception of Vincenzo Scamozzi’s treatise L’idea della architettura universale in 17th-century Holland, the migration of Dutch architects, and the reception of their works in Central and Northern Europe. In 2010–2015 he was member of the steering committee of the ESF networking program PALATIUM. Together with Karl Enenkel, he coordinated recently (2014–2016) the research project ‘The Quest for an Appropriate Past’ financed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (KVAB). His recent book-size publications include: Schoonheid op maat. Vincenzo Scamozzi en de architectuur van de Gouden Eeuw (Amsterdam: 2010) and (together with Karl Enenkel), Oudheid als ambitie. De zoektocht naar een passend verleden 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: 2017). His co-edited volumes include (together with B. Bøggild Johannsen), Beyond Scylla and Charybdis. European Courts and Court Residences outside Habsburg and Valois/Bourbon Territories 1500–1700 (Copenhagen: 2015), (together with Krista De Jonge) The Low Countries at the Crossroads. Netherlandish Architecture as an Export Product in Early Modern Europe (1480–1680), Architectura Moderna 8 (Turnhout: 2013), and (with Krista De Jonge and M. Chatenet), Public Buildings in Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: 2010).