Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650, Volume 1

Martin Gosman, Ph.D. (1982) is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published many articles on the medieval Alexander and on ideas of political power in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe. His most recent monograph is La legende d'Alexandre le Grand dans la litterature francaise du 12e siecle (1997). He is the editor (with Volker Honemann) of Kultureller Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Fruhen Neuzeit and of Groningen Studies in Cultural Change. Alasdair MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published widely on the medieval and renaissance literature and culture of Scotland and England. He is the co-editor of The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture (1994) and of A Palace in the Wild: Essays on Vernacular Culture and Humanism (2000). Arjo Vanderjagt, Ph.D. (1981) is Professor of the History of Ideas and of Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the anthropology of the Church Fathers, the thought of Anselm of Canterbury, the political ideology of the fifteenth-century dukes of Burgundy, and on Northern Humanism. His latest book is a translation into Dutch of Anselm's De casu diaboli, with introductions and commentary (2002).