Notes on Contributors

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William Gibson ([email protected]) is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University, UK and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History.

Albert van der Heide ([email protected]) is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Jewish Culture, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Leiden University. Being foremost a Hebraist, Albert van der Heide combined teaching and research of rabbinic and early modern Hebrew literature with introducing and explaining Jewish religion and culture to a mainly non-Jewish and Christian audience.

Frieda van der Heijden ([email protected]) studied Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, where she focused on medieval music as well as on manuscripts and written culture. She wrote her master’s thesis on the Cangé chansonnier. She specialized further at the University of Utrecht and went to the University of Cambridge to learn more about early music notation. She is currently working on her PhD thesis at Royal Holloway, University of London, about the early fourteenth-century manuscript Paris, BnF, français 12786.

Frans A. Janssen ([email protected]) is Emeritus Professor of Book and Library History, University of Amsterdam. Frans A. Janssen has worked in the fields of textual criticism and librarianship. He published a series of books and articles on the history of printing techniques, of typographical design and of book collecting, as well as hermetic philosophy in book collecting.

Ilse Korthagen ([email protected]) recently graduated as a book conservator at the University of Amsterdam and started working at conservation studio

Restauratie Nijhoff Asser in Amsterdam. Previously, she interned at many institutions, including the National Library of the Netherlands, Trinity College Library Dublin and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Metamorfoze, the Dutch national programme for the preservation of paper heritage, funded her research into the digitization of medieval manuscripts. This research was supervised by Professor Lieve Watteeuw of KU Leuven in 2016.

Anton van der Lem ([email protected]) is curator of Rare Books at Leiden University Libraries and is editor of the website www.dutchrevolt.leiden.edu. He takes a vivid interest in the life and times of historian Johan Huizinga. Leiden University Library holds many books written by German exile authors and has recently purchased the library of Menno ter Braak.

Corinna Norrick-Rühl ([email protected]) studied English and Book Studies in Mainz, Germany and in Udine, Italy. She is assistant professor of Book Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, where she received her PhD in 2013. In 2014 she was visiting professor at the Institute for Book Studies and Textual Research in Münster, Germany. Her research deals with twentieth- and twenty-first- century book history, with a special interest in children’s and young adult pub- lishing, translation and book sales clubs.

Angela Nuovo ([email protected]) is Professor of the History of the Book at the University of Udine in Italy. She has published extensively on the book trade and private libraries in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In 2016, she has been the recipient of an ERC Grant for her project ‘EMoBookTrade – The Early Modern Book Trade: An Evidence-based Reconstruction of the Economic and Juridical Framework of the European Book Market’.

Meindert E. Peters ([email protected]) studied Philosophy and Art History at Amsterdam University College (BA 2014) and German and Cultural Studies at New College, University of Oxford (MPhil 2016). He has embarked on a doctoral degree in German Studies, also at New College, Oxford, in October 2014, on the intellectual history of the relation between body and world in the Weimar Republic.

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