Notes on Contributors
Francisco J. Álvarez
received his PhD in Hispanic Studies (2014) from the University of Cordova; he has taught Spanish Language and Literature both in the United States and in Spain. He has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Revista de Erudición y Crítica and is co-author of Córdoba en tiempos de Cervantes (2005) and La Córdoba de Góngora (2008). His main field of research is Spanish Golden Age poetry.
Adrian Armstrong
is Centenary Professor of French at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses mainly on late medieval literature in French, and on interactions between the Dutch- and French-language cultures of the late medieval Low Countries. He is the author of The Virtuoso Circle: Competition, Collaboration, and Complexity in Late Medieval French Poetry (2012) and Technique and Technology: Script, Print, and Poetics in France, 1470–1550 (2000); and the co-author, with Sarah Kay, of Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs (2011). He has edited Jean Bouchet’s Jugement poetic de l’honneur femenin (2006) and, with Jennifer Britnell, the Épistre du roy à Hector and other topical work by Jean Lemaire de Belges and Jean d’Auton (2000). He is currently writing François Villon: A Companion, and editing the poetry of Jean Molinet.
Gabriele Ball
studied German and English Language and Literature at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her PhD, that dealt with the literary mediator and journalist Johann Christoph Gottsched, is entitled Moralische Küsse (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2000). After her PhD, she became senior researcher in the editing project Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft at the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig in cooperation with the Herzog August Bibliothek (2000–2018). Working with the letters of the members of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, she developed an interest in the communication models of early modern societies. She has worked at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 2019 again on different media and institutional contexts in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe: letters, journals and libraries concerning male and female society members.
Anita Boele
defended her PhD thesis in 2013 at the University of Groningen, entitled Leden van één lichaam. Denkbeelden over armen, armenzorg en liefdadigheid in de Noordelijke Nederlanden, 1300–1650 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2013). From 2014 until 2017 she worked as a postdoc at Utrecht University focusing on long-term developments in elderly care provisions. Currently, Boele works as a project manager of the Dutch National Research Agenda route ‘Towards Resilient Societies’.
Cynthia J. Brown
is Research Professor of French (Emerita) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has numerous publications on the Rhétoriqueur poets, female patronage, and the influence of the transition from manuscript to print on late medieval and early Renaissance literary culture. Patrons, Poets and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Cornell University Press, 1995) was awarded the MLA Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies in 1996. She co-edited Women, Art and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe with Anne-Marie Legaré (Brepols, 2015) and in 2018 her edited two-volume issue of Le Moyen Français (81–82), Manuscript to Print, Print to Digital: Editions in Performance and Performance in Editions in Late Medieval and Renaissance France (1400–1550), appeared in print. She has recently completed Volume III of the works of Pierre Gringore, Les Oeuvres moralisatrices (1499–1510) (Droz, 2020).
Susanna de Beer
(PhD University of Amsterdam, 2007) is Senior University Lecturer in Renaissance Latin Literature and Early Modern Studies at Leiden University, with a specialization in Classical Reception Studies, Renaissance Humanism and Digital humanities. In 2009 she co-edited The Neo-Latin Epigram. A Learned and Witty Genre and in 2013 she published The Poetics of Patronage. Poetry as Self-Advancement in Giannantonio Campano. She is currently finalizing a monograph, The Renaissance Battle for Rome, about the competitive claims to the ancient Roman legacy in Humanist Latin Poetry. In the context of this project she has developed the virtual research environment ‘Mapping Visions of Rome’, and coordinates the collaboration network and web portal www.digi talromanheritage.com.
Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
was Professor (Emerita) in Medieval History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and in Early Modern History at Ghent University. Her fields of research were the History of European Universities and mainly the mobility of students and teachers (thirteenth through eighteenth centuries), and intellectual and cultural life during the Renaissance (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries) in its educational and social context. She was the former secretary-general, president and vice-president of the International Commission of the History of Universities.
Ignacio García Aguilar
is Associate Professor at the University of Cordova. He has been a Teaching Assistant at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and “Juan de la Cierva” at the University of Huelva. He has published five monographs, twelve critical editions and more than eighty articles, book chapters and reviews on Spanish Golden Age literature. His research has been published in journals such as Edad de Oro, Bulletin Hispanique, Criticón, Versants, Iberoromania, Studi Ispanici, eHumanista and Romance Notes, among others.
Laura Kendrick
is an Associate Member of the Research Center DYPAC (Dynamiques Patrimoniales et Culturelles) at the Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, where, before retiring, she taught courses on medieval literature and culture. She has published monographs on playful aspects of the poetry of Chaucer (Chaucerian Play) and of the troubadours (The Game of Love), as well as of manuscript illumination (Animating the Letter). She has published over a dozen articles on the verse of Eustache Deschamps and is a member of the team, headed by Jacqueline Cerquiglini Toulet, currently working on a critical edition of Deschamps’ complete works.
Samuel Mareel
is a Curator at the Museum Hof van Busleyden. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Literature at Ghent University. He specializes in the art and culture of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries. His articles have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, The Sixteenth-Century Journal and The Modern Language Review. He was a researcher at the Universities of Ghent, Berkeley, Groningen and London, Queen Mary. As a curator Samuel Mareel mounted the exhibitions Call for Justice. Art and Law in the Burgundian Low Countries (1450–1650) (Museum Hof van Busleyden, in collaboration with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, 23.03.2018–24.06.2018) and Renaissance Children (Museum Hof van Busleyden, 26.03.2021–4.07.2021).
Inmaculada Osuna
is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her work has focused on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, with a particular interest in occasional poetry (mainly poetic academies and contests), Andalusian and later Baroque poetic production. Her publications include Poesía y academia en torno a 1600: la ‘Poética silva’ (2003) and articles published in journals such as Criticón, Bulletin Hispanique, Revista de Literatura, eHumanista and Boletín de la Real Academia Española, among others.
Bart Ramakers
is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature at the University of Groningen. He works on sixteenth-century rhetoricians’ theatre, mainly in Bruges (the plays by Cornelis Everaert) and Haarlem (the Trou Moet Blijcken collection). He is particularly interested in the interaction between performance, rhetoric, and the visual arts. Among his recent publications are the co-edited volumes Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion (2016) and Lessons in Art: Art, Education, and Modes of Instruction since 1500 (2018). He is an editor of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ).
Dylan Reid
is a Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on sixteenth- century urban culture, with a focus on the French city of Rouen. In addition, he works as copyeditor for the CRRS publication series ‘Essays and Studies’. He is also the executive editor of Spacing, a quarterly magazine about contemporary urban issues, and is the author of the Toronto Public Etiquette Guide (2017) and the co-editor of other books about Toronto.
Catrien Santing
is a cultural historian focusing on intellectual history, as well as the history of medicine and the body in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Currently she holds the chair of Medieval History at the University of Groningen and is involved in projects such as the Histories of Healthy Ageing and Lifestyle Regimes in the Premodern Period. Recent publications are ‘Dancing with death. A historical perspective on coping with covid-19’ with Rina Knoeff, Lotte Jensen, and Beatrice de Graaf (2021) and ‘Gezond, goed en gelukkig: De actualiteit van het middeleeuwse welzijnsmodel’ (2021).
Susie Speakman Sutch
spent many rewarding years as a postdoctoral researcher in the History Department of Ghent University. Her research encompasses the contribution of chambers of rhetoric, devotional brotherhoods, book production, and translation to urban culture in the Dutch-speaking Low Countries during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. She recently published on the Brussels Seven Sorrows Confraternity and on politics and printing in the region.
Arjan van Dixhoorn
has taught at various universities in the Netherlands and Belgium and was the recipient of several research grants. From 2005 to 2014 he worked as a research fellow at the Universities of Antwerp and Ghent (funded by FWO-Research Foundation – Flanders). Since his special appointment as Hurgronje Professor for the History of Zeeland in the World at Utrecht University in 2013, he has taught history at its international honours college, University College Roosevelt, in Middelburg. His main research interests are the history of the public sphere and public opinion, the history of voluntary associations, and the history of (early) modern culture of knowledge and learning.