Joris Oddens
is Senior Researcher in Political Culture and History of the Netherlands at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. His research focuses on Dutch political culture since c. 1600. His publications include Pioniers in schaduwbeeld. Het eerste parlement van Nederland 1796–1798 (Vantilt 2012), In dit Huis. Twee Eeuwen Tweede Kamer (Boom 2015, co-edited) and recent work on petitioning and portraiture. He is currently preparing, with Alessandro Metlica, an edited volume on cultural representations of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
Mart Rutjes
is University Lecturer of Dutch History at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam. He has published on the Dutch revolutionary era and the political culture of the Netherlands since the 18th century. His books include Door gelijkheid gegrepen. Democratie burgerschap en staat in Nederland 1795–1801 (Vantilt, 2012) and The Poltical Culture of the Sister Republics, 1794–1806 (co-edited with Joris Oddens and Erik Jacobs, AUP, 2015). He is currently completing a history of the relations between religious organisations and the state in the Netherlands (with James Kennedy).
Arthur Weststeijn
is Research Fellow at the University of Padua. He has published widely on Dutch, Spanish, and Italian intellectual and political history since the Renaissance, including Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age (Brill, 2012) and the co-edited volumes Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (Brill, 2017), The Dutch Empire Between Ideas and Practice (Palgrave, 2019) and The Renaissance of Roman Colonization (OUP, 2020).