Notes on the Editors
Christopher D. Fletcher
is the Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. A medieval historian by training, his research focuses on the relationship between religion and public communication technology before 1800. He has published articles on letter-writing in the Middle Ages, emblems, and the digital humanities. His current book project, Public Engagement in the Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions to a Modern Crisis, explores how medieval practices of public engagement can inform modern scholarsâ public outreach efforts.
Walter S. Melion
is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (Emoryâs institute for advanced study in the humanities). He is author of three monographs and a critical edition of Karel van Manderâs Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, editor or co-editor of more than twenty-five volumes, and has published more than eighty articles. Melion is editor of two book series: Brillâs Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History and Lund Humphriesâ Northern Lights. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He is president emeritus of the Sixteenth Century Society, current president of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and a board member of the Print Council of America.