Performative Literary Culture Literary Associations and the World of Learning, 1200-1700

Arjan van Dixhoorn, Ph.D. VU Amsterdam (2004), was appointed Hurgronje Professor of the History of Zeeland in the World at Utrecht University (University College Roosevelt at Middelburg) in 2013. He has published on early modern knowledge cultures and public opinion in the Low Countries, in particular on the Dutch-speaking rhetoricians.

Susie Speakman Sutch, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1983), was a postdoctoral researcher in the History Department at Ghent University. She has published on the contribution of devotional brotherhoods, chambers of rhetoric, book production and translation to urban culture in the Low Countries during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.