Notes on Contributors
Renaud Adam
works for the auction house Arenberg Auctions (Brussels) and is scientific collaborator for the Modern History Department of the University of Liège, where he also taught History of the book in the Renaissance from 2012 until 2019. His research focusses on the book culture and its industry in the Low Countries during the Early Modern Period. He published a.o. Vivre et imprimer dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux (des origines à la Réforme) (2 vols., Turnhout, Brepols, 2018), Lectures italiennes dans les pays wallons à la première modernité (1500â1630), with Nicole Bingen (Turnhout, Brepols, 2015) and Itinéraires du livre italien à la Renaissance. Suisse romande, anciens Pays-Bas et Liège, edited with Chiara Lastraioli (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019).
Paul Arblaster
D.Phil. (Oxford, 2000), is a historian and translator who has taught at the Centre for European Studies of the KU Leuven and at the Maastricht School of Translation and Interpreting. He currently teaches at the Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, and the Louvain School of Translation and Interpreting. His research has focused on communication, translation and news publishing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on martyrdom, exile and monasticism in the religious conflicts of the period. He is the author of Antwerp & the World: Richard Verstegan and the International Culture of Catholic Reformation (Leuven, 2004); From Ghent to Aix: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550â1700 (Leiden, 2014); and A History of the Low Countries (third edition, fully revised and updated, London, 2019).
Rosa De Marco
has a master in conservation of cultural heritage and holds a PhD in history of modern art from the University of Burgundy. She is a scientific collaborator at the Modern History Department of the University of Liège where she has been hosted as a Marie SkÅodowska-Curie research fellow. Her researches focus on baroque ceremonies and the relationship between text and image in the European arts. She is currently preparing a monograph from her thesis, on Jesuit Festivals in France (1586â1643), and a further volume, Emblems in European stages, for the series Glasgow Emblem Studies.
Dirk Imhof
has a master in classics and in library sciences. In 2008 he obtained his doctorat in history at the University of Antwerp with a thesis on the Antwerp publisher Jan Moretus I (1543â1610). He is curator of the rare books and archives at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. His research focuses on book history in Antwerp in the early modern period and the Plantin Press in particular. Together with Karen Bowen he published Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His bibliography of the editions of Jan Moretus I, Jan Moretus and the Continuation of The Plantin Press: A Bibliography of the Works Published and Printed by Jan Moretus I in Antwerp (1589â1610), (Leiden: Brill), appeared in 2014.
Valentine Langlais
is a PhD student at the University of Montpellier and the University of Geneva. Graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, she is currently working on a thesis titled âPainting the Eucharist: the iconography of the Last Supper in Dutch and Flemish painting (1560â1660)â. Her field of research is the religious iconography in the Flemish and Dutch art and, more specifically, the links between painting and the religious and political context of the Netherlands in the wake of the crisis of iconoclasm in the 16th century, and then during the 17th century. Alongside her research, she is also working as a lecturer at the University of Montpellier and teaching Renaissance art in Europe.
Annelyse Lemmens
is Phd student in History of art at the Université catholique de Louvain and former fellow of the F.R.S.-FNRS (2010â2014). Member of the GEMCA (UCLouvain) since 2010, she also beneficiated from a short-term fellowship at the Warburg Institute (London). Her researches are centred on the statuses, functions and uses of the frontispiece in Antwerp between 1585 and 1640. Her interest concerns especially the evolution of the structures of the frontispieces in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the link between the liminal image and the book. Influenced at first by visual semiotic, her last interventions led her to consider her object of study from the angle of visual rhetoric.
Renaud Milazzo
obtained his Ph.D. in History, Art History and Archaeology at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines with a thesis about the emblem book market in Europe over the period between 1531â1750 (Tutor: Prof. Chantal Grell). His dissertation will soon be published in the series Bibliologia by Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium). Dr Milazzo has published articles on topics related to the sale of emblem books printed by Christopher Plantin and Jan Moretus I, based on the archives of the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. He joined the EMoBookTrade project team in July 2018 (Università deli Studi di Milano) through the special project EMoEuropeBookPrices (funded by FARE-MIUR, Italy) with the goal of studying the manuscript catalogue of book prices recorded by Christopher Plantin and Jan Moretus I (1555â1593 ca.) at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.
Gwendoline de Mûelenaere
is a postdoctoral researcher in history of art at Ghent University, in Belgium. Her current project focuses on illustrated lecture notebooks from the Old University of Louvain. She intends to analyze the features and the functioning of such images in order to assess their role in the transmission of knowledge, and to survey their socio-symbolic stakes from an art historical perspective. Prior to that, she obtained a PhD at the Université catholique de Louvain, under the supervision of Prof. Ralph Dekoninck. She carried out an iconological study of thesis prints produced in the Southern Low Countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her research interests include early modern prints, the history of education in the Southern Netherlands, the role of the Jesuits in the creation of images produced in academic frameworks, allegorical and emblematic languages, text/image relationships, frame and framing issues.
Ruth S. Noyes
Novo Nordisk Foundation Mads Ãvlisen Fellow at the National Museum of Denmark, holds a PhD in the History of Art from Johns Hopkins University. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she has received over 10 postdoctoral research grants, awards and fellowships, including the Rome Prize (2014) and Marie SkÅodowska-Curie EU Fellowship (2019). Author of numerous articles and essays, she published her first monograph with Routledge in 2017 and is currently preparing two further monographs.
Alexander Soetaert
earned his PhD in Early Modern History from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). In 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany. His main research interests concern transregional history, early modern book history and hagiography and the history of the Walloon provinces of the Low Countries. His PhD thesis on the Catholic printing press in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai has been published in the series of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts under the title De katholieke drukpers in de kerkprovincie Kamerijk. Contacten, mobiliteit en transfers in een grensgebied (1559â1659) (Leuven: Peeters, 2019). Together with Violet Soen, Johan Verberckmoes and Wim François, he also published the volume Transregional Reformations: Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe (Refo500 Academic Series, Göttingen, 2019).
Johan Verberckmoes
is Professor of early modern cultural history at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. His research focuses on humour and laughter as cultural movers from the 16th to the 18th century. He is currently preparing a book on the humour of ordinary people in the 17th and 18th century based on joke collections and egodocuments. His other main research interest is the history of intercultural contacts in the context of the Spanish Habsburg territories as part of the worldwide Spanish and Portugese empires in the 16th and 17th century. His latest book is Ontmoetingen in het Westen. Een wereldgeschiedenis (Encounters in the West, A World History), Pelckmans Pro 2019.
Malcolm Walsby
is Professor of book history at Enssib in Lyon, director of the Gabriel Naudé research centre, and co-founder of the Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of a number of monographs and articles on 15th-, 16th- and 17th-century French history. Most recently, he has published Lâimprimé en Europe occidentale, 1470â1680 and Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470â1600 (2020 and 2021). He has also edited volumes on European book history as well as bibliographies on French and Netherlandish books. A specialist of the archaeology of the book and the economics of the book trade, he is currently developing an international research project on the creation and use of Sammelbände in Europe.
Heleen Wyffels
is a PhD-fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) based at the University of Leuven. She is preparing a doctoral thesis on women printers in the Habsburg Low Countries (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), under the supervision of Violet Soen and Johan Verberckmoes. Before starting her PhD, Heleen Wyffels studied history at the University of Leuven and arts and heritage at Maastricht University.