BRAM CAERS is a literary historian of the late medieval and early modern period. He finished his PhD on manuscript variation in urban historiography in the city of Mechelen (1500-1650) at the University of Antwerp in 2015. He now works as a postdoctoral research fellow (NWO-veni) at the University of Leiden, studying the literary image of the Dutch Revolt in vernacular manuscript material in the Southern Low Countries (1585-1621), addressing questions of subversive literature and censorship.
He has taught courses on medieval and early modern Dutch literature in the universities of Antwerp, Utrecht, and Leuven. LISA DEMETS studied history at Ghent University and finished her PhD in 2019. Her doctoral research dealt with the late medieval Chronicles of Flanders, and in particular the Middle Dutch manuscripts of the "Excellente Cronike van Vlaenderen". She now works as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University.
Her main research interests are urban history, gender history, medieval history writing, and the political and cultural history of the medieval Low Countries. TINEKE VAN GASSEN studied history at Ghent University and finished her PhD research in 2017. Her doctoral research project was entitled : "The documentary memory of a medieval city : the development and signification of the Ghent city archives".
Her research interests are urban history, the history of the craft guilds, medieval diplomatics and the political history of late medieval Ghent.