Notes on the Contributors
Helwi Blom
is a literary historian whose research focuses on early modern France. Her scholarly interests include popular literature (the ‘Bibliothèque bleue’), book history, and reception studies. In 2012 she earned her PhD in French Studies from Utrecht University with a dissertation on the reception of medieval romances of chivalry in 17th-century France (‘Vieux romans’ et ‘Grand Siècle’; éditions et réceptions de la littérature chevaleresque médiévale dans la France du XVIIe siècle). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the MEDIATE (Middlebrow Enlightenment Disseminating Ideas, Authors and Texts in Europe, 1665–1830) project at Radboud University Nijmegen. In the context of this project, that seeks to study the circulation of books and ideas in 18th-century Europe by drawing on a corpus of 18th-century printed book sale catalogues from the Dutch Republic, France, and the British Isles, she works on private library catalogues published in France between 1630 and 1830.
Tobias Bulang
studied German and philosophy at the TU Dresden and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (USA). In 2002 he obtained his PhD in Dresden with a work about literature and historicism. Between 2003 and 2012 he had different engagements at the Universities of Göttingen, Dresden, Zurich, and Munich. In 2009 he obtained his Habilitation in Zurich with a study on medieval and early modern encyclopaedic poetry. Since 2012 he has been a Professor for Medieval German Literature at the University of Heidelberg.
Raphaël Cappellen
is maître de conférences (Associate Professor) in French Renaissance literature at the University of Paris VII-Diderot. He has written his doctoral thesis (Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, 2013) and several papers on Rabelais’s writings.
Ronnie Ferguson
is Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of St. Andrews, Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia, and Fellow of the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. His research interests include medieval and Renaissance epigraphy, the language and culture of Venice, Renaissance comedy, historical linguistics, and Renaissance translation. He was the first Full Professor of Italian at St. Andrews and has been Head of the School of Modern Languages there. He has published several books, i. a., The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante): Text, Context and Performance (2000); A Linguistic History of Venice (2007); Le iscrizioni in antico volgare delle confraternite laiche veneziane (2015). He is completing a major volume to be published shortly: Venetian Inscriptions. Vernacular Writing for Public Display in Medieval and Renaissance Venice (forthcoming).
Dirk Geirnaert
works as a researcher at the binational Dutch-Flemish Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) in Leiden, where he was one of the editors of the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (the Dutch counterpart of the Oxford English Dictionary). He also was responsible for the release of the Cdrom Middelnederlands (1998), a CD-ROM containing the 10 volumes of the Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek (Dictionary of Middle Dutch) and an extensive collection of Middle Dutch texts. He is co-author of Het Antwerps liedboek (1544), edition by D.E. van der Poel a.o., with a reconstruction of the tunes by L.P. Grijp (2004) and, with R. Lievens, of Van zondeval tot hemel, staties uit de heilsgeschiedenis, a study and edition of an unknown 15th-century work by Anthonis de Roovere on the life and passion of Christ (2018). Furthermore, he has published many articles on Dutch literature of the Middle Ages and of the 16th century, especially in Bruges.
Jelle Koopmans
works in the French department of the University of Amsterdam. His main research interests focus on medieval and early modern drama and song culture. He published many critical editions of drama texts (sermons joyeux, farces, sotties), but also many articles on the history of the disciplines and its essence. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and holds the medal of the city of Tours.
Marijke Meijer Drees
is Associate Professor in historical Dutch literature at the University of Groningen. She conducted NWO-funded research projects on early modern pamphlets and on the power of satire.
Claudine Nédelec
is Emeritus Professor of 17th-century French literature at the University d’Artois (France). Her work focuses on genres of comedy and gallantry, from an aesthetical and sociological perspective. She has published, among other works: Les États et empires du burlesque (2004), Ballets burlesques pour Louis XIII. Danse et jeux de transgression (1622–1638) (2012, with M.-C. Canova-Green), Le Burlesque selon les Perrault. Œuvres et critiques (2013, with J. Leclerc), and Scarron. Le Roman comique (2018).
Patrizia Pellizzari
teaches Italian literature at the University of Turin. Her research interests, between philology and criticism, span the 16th to 18th centuries in particular. She has published about tales (Boccaccio, Doni, Bandello, Giraldi Cintio, Scipione Bargagli), books of journey, heroic poems, the Carlo Emanuele I Duke of Savoy’s library, and Vittorio Alfieri’s translations. She edited Doni’s Mondi e Inferni and La Moral filosofia e Trattati, and Alfieri’s Frammenti di traduzioni and Sallustio. She has been a board member of the Fondazione Centro di Studi Alfieriani; she is a board member of the series ‘Alfieriana’ and co-editor of the scientific magazine Levia Gravia. Quaderno annuale di Letteratura italiana.
Dirk Werle
is Professor of German literature with a focus on the early modern period at Heidelberg University. In 2005, he earned his PhD at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, followed by a Habilitation at Leipzig University in 2012. His main research interests include European literary history in the context of intellectual history from the 16th century on, the theory and methodology of literary studies, the history of scholarship, and the history of literary genres in the early modern period (lyric poetry, fictional narrative, epic poems). He is the author of Copia librorum. Problemgeschichte imaginierter Bibliotheken 1580–1630 (2007), Ruhm und Moderne. Eine Ideengeschichte (1750–1930) (2014), and ‘Barocke’ Lyrik lesen (2019).