Erika Gielen obtained a doctoral degree in Classics from KU Leuven, with a doctoral thesis on the Byzantine philosophers Joseph Racendytes ("De virtute") and Nicephorus Blemmydes ("De virtute et ascesi"). Presently she is Managing Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre LECTIO (KU Leuven). Jan Papy is Full Professor in Latin and Neo-Latin Literature at the Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven. His research focuses on Renaissance Humanism and Neo-Latin literature, with special attention for Renaissance philosophy, cultural history of the Low Countries, history of universities and history of science.