Notes on the Contributors
Gábor Gelléri
is Lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University. He holds a PhD in French from ELTE University (Budapest), and a PhD in History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). In 2016, he published Philosophies du voyage: visiter lâAngleterre aux 17eâ18e siècles with the Voltaire Foundation, the comprehensive study of Francophone travels to England during the early modern period. He is the co-creator of the âArts of Travelâ database at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is currently finalizing his second monograph on 18th-century French arts of travel, under the title Lessons of Travel: From Grand Tour to School Trips in 18th-Century France, and a co-edited volume on travel and conflict. He is currently researching the theories and representations of seasickness during the âage of sailâ.
Thomas Haye
earned his PhD in 1993 and was Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Kiel (1996â2002). Since 2002 he has been Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Göttingen. He has published several critical editions and monographs on Latin texts. His most recent book-length publications include Verlorenes Mittelalter. Ursachen und Muster der Nichtüberlieferung mittellateinischer Literatur (Leiden â Boston 2016) and Der Laberintus des Edmund Bramfield. Eine Satire auf die römische Kurie (Stuttgart 2017).
Harald Hendrix
is director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and is professor of Italian Studies at Utrecht University. With a combined background in cultural history, comparative literature, and Italian studies, he has published widely on the European reception of Italian Renaissance and Baroque culture, on the early modern aesthetics of the non-beautiful, and on literary culture and memory. He is currently preparing a book on the cultural history of writersâ houses in Italy, from Petrarch to the present day. He is the author of Traiano Boccalini fra erudizione e polemica (1995) and Writersâ Houses and the Making of Memory (2008); he co-edited and co-authored Autorità , modelli e antimodelli nella cultura artistica e letteraria fra Riforma e Controriforma (2007), Officine del nuovo (2008), Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance (2011), The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature (2011), The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies (2012), and Cyprus and the Renaissance, 1450â1650 (2013).
Marc Laureys
is professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin philology as well as founding director of the Centre for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn. His main areas of scholarly interest are early modern historiography and antiquarianism, particularly in Italy and the Low Countries, polemical discourse in Renaissance humanism, and the reception of classical authors in Neo-Latin literature. He is editor-in-chief of the Neulateinisches Jahrbuch and the Noctes Neolatinae. His latest edited volumes are Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe, along with David Lines and Jill Kraye (2015); Polemik im Dialog des Renaissance-Humanismus. Formen, Entwicklungen und Funktionen, along with Uwe Baumann and Arnold Becker (2015); and A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392â1463), along with Angelo Mazzocco (2016).
Johanna Luggin
is a post-doctoral researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck, currently working on the ERC-funded project âNOSCEMUS â Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latinâ. Her research interest include Neo-Latin scientific prose and didactic poetry, Thomas Hobbesâ Latin works, early modern Latin travel literature, and battle descriptions in ancient and early modern Greek and Latin texts. She has prepared an edition with translation and commentary of Thomas Hobbesâ De mirabilibus Pecci (Olms: 2016) and co-edited a volume on Croatian and Tyrolean Neo-Latin in Comparative Perspective (2018) as well as a volume on Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts (2018).
Kerstin Maria Pahl
is an art historian and literary scholar, currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, where she investigates representations and the image of unfeelingness in nineteenth-century Europe. She studied art history, classical archaeology, and German literature in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Cambridge. Her PhD thesis (collaborative PhD at Humboldt University Berlin and Kingâs College London, completed in January 2018) explored portraiture and life writing in England between ca. 1660 and 1790, and was funded by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Her main research interests include British art, literature, and culture, portraiture and life writing, art theory, word-image relations and intermediality, history of emotions, social history of art, and national history/histories of art.
Jan Papy
(1965), PhD Classics (1992) and MPhil (1996) is Professor of Latin and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Leuven. His research focuses on Renaissance Humanism and Neo-Latin literature, with special attention for Renaissance Philosophy, Cultural History of the Low Countries, History of Universities and History of Science. In 2003 he was Laureate of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He published numerous articles on Justus Lipsius, Erasmus, Vives and Petrarch. Together with Karl Enenkel he edited Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance (Brill, 2006). Last year, he coordinated an exhibition on the Louvain Collegium Trilingue. In this context he edited an exhibition catalogue and a collection of studies which was published both in Dutch, English and French (Leuven: Peeters, 2017 and 2018). For these initiatives he has been awarded the Year Price 2018 for Science Communication by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
Bernd Roling
is professor of classical and medieval Latin in 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 the philosophy of language; the history of early modern science; university history, with a special focus on Scandinavia; and early modern esoteric traditions. Recent monographs are Aristotelische Naturphilosophie und christliche Kabbalah 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); and Physica Sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2013). Together with I. Ventura and B. van den Abeele he published a critical edition of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, vol. 1 (2007). He is currently preparing a book on the Swedish polymath Olaus Rudbeck and the reception of his work in eighteenth-century Northern Europe.
Robert Seidel
is Professor of German literature at the University of Frankfurt on the Main (Germany). His research interests are focused on Neo-Latin literature and on the history of early modern scholarship. His main book publications are Späthumanismus in Schlesien. Caspar Dornau (1577â1631). Leben und Werk (1994) and Literarische Kommunikation im Territorialstaat. Funktionszusammenhänge des Literaturbetriebs in Hessen-Darmstadt zur Zeit der Spätaufklärung (2003). He co-edited Humanistische Lyrik des 16. Jahrhunderts (1997), Jacob Balde SJ: Urania Victrix. Die siegreiche Urania (1663). Liber IâII (2003), Martin Opitz: Lateinische Werke (3 vols., 2011â2015), and several collected volumes, among others Lateinische Lyrik der Frühen Neuzeit. Poetische Kleinformen und ihre Funktionen zwischen Renaissance und Aufklärung (2003), âParodiaâ und Parodie. Aspekte intertextuellen Schreibens in der lateinischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit (2006), Das lateinische Drama der Frühen Neuzeit. Exemplarische Einsichten in Praxis und Theorie (2008), Frankfurt im Schnittpunkt der Diskurse. Strategien und Institutionen literarischer Kommunikation im späten Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit (2010), Dichtung â Gelehrsamkeit â Disputationskultur (2012), Frühneuzeitliche Disputationen. Polyvalente Produktionsapparate gelehrten Wissens (2016), Rhetorik, Poetik und Ãsthetik im Bildungssystem des Alten Reiches. Wissenschaftshistorische ErschlieÃung ausgewählter Dissertationen aus Universitäten und Gymnasien 1500â1800 (2016). Seidel is also co-editor of Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1620â1720. Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon (8 vols., forthcoming).
Justina Spencer
is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Art History Department at Carleton University and a specialist in art and visual culture of the early modern period. She earned her PhD from Oxford Universityâs History of Art Department, where she was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow. Her primary research interest concerns how artists conceptualized and translated three-dimensional space onto the canvas or page, whether by means of linear perspective, cartography, or optical instrumentation. Her first book-length project explores the role of monocular vision in the development of linear perspective and anamorphosis from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Her postdoctoral project probes the cross-cultural impact of European and Islamic art on the development of cartography and costume illustration from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, examining the dual-beneficiary network of exchange that existed between Eastern and Western imperial powers.
Justin Stagl
was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1941. He studied ethnology, psychology and linguistics at the universities of Vienna, Leiden and Münster. He obtained his PhD in Vienna in 1965, and his Habilitation Certificate (sociology and social anthropology) in Salzburg, in 1973. He was Professor of sociology in Bonn from 1974 to 1991 and in Salzburg from 1991 to 2009. He has been professor emeritus since 2009. His research interests include cultural sociology, history and theory of the social and cultural sciences. Amongst his publications are Apodemiken. Eine räsonnierte Bibliographie der reisetheoretischen Literatur des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (1983) and A History of Curiosity. The Theory of Travel 1550â1800 (1995; reprinted 2006; German edition: Eine Geschichte der Neugier. Die Kunst des Reisens 1550â1800 (2002).