Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (1975) is associate professor of early modern cultural history and urban history at Ghent University. Most of her work concerns urban culture in the Low Countries in the period from circa 1450 to circa 1650. She has published two monographs: on urban chronicles (1998) and on urban literary societies or rederijkerskamers (2008). In 2016, she co-edited with Bruno Blondé and Marc Boone a multi-authored synthesis on the urban history of the Low Countries (Gouden eeuwen. Stad en samenleving in de Lage Landen, 1100-1600; English and French translations forthcoming). Sarah Van Bouchaute (1985) is scientific collaborator in Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent. In 2007 she completed a Master's thesis on drinking and drunkenness in rederijker texts.

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