Reading Images from the Past In Honour of Karl A.E. Enenkel

Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. His research focuses on early modern image theories and practices, the relation between aesthetics and theology, meditative image-making, emblematics, and on various aspects of Netherlandish art, with an emphasis on painters and printmakers in Haarlem.

Christoph Pieper is University Lecturer of Latin literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on Cicero and his reception, Roman oratory, Augustan poetry, and Latin literature of the Italian Quattrocento.

Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on sixteenth-, seventeenth - and twentieth-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric and early modern zoology.

Anita Traninger is Full Professor of Romance Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the shape of knowledge, predominantly in the early modern period, and specifically with a view to European literatures in a global context.