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The contributions to
Discovering the Riches of the Word. Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe explore new approaches to the study of religious reading in a long term (from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century) and geographically broad perspective.
About the author
Sabrina Corbellini is Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen (department of Medieval History). Her current research is concerned with the reconstruction of the readership of religious texts in late medieval Europe. From 2008 to 2013, she was Principal Investigator of the ERC-Starting Grant project "Holy Writ and Lay Readers".
Margriet Hoogvliet is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Groningen. Her current research is concerned with readers of biblical and religious texts in French during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. She has also published extensively on text-image relations, political communication in the period of Catherine de Médicis, and the history of cartography (
Pictura et scriptura: textes, images et herméneutique des mappae mundi (XIIIe-XVIe s.), Turnhout: 2007).
Bart Ramakers is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature at the University of Groningen. He specialises in medieval and sixteenth-century drama and has a particular interest in the intersections between performative and visual culture. He is an editor of the
Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ).
