Albrecht Classen (editor) - Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

: Lady World, Jacques de Gheyn, 1596

: Lady World, Jan Miense Molenaer, 1633

: Self-Portrait, Anna Maria van Schurman, 1633

: Portrait of Hans Bol , Hendrik Goltzius, 1593

: Self-Portrait, Anna Maria van Schurman, 1640

: Portrait of Jacob Cats , Willem Jacobs Delff after Michiel Jans van Mierevelt, 1635

: Self-Portrait, after Anna Maria van Schurman, 1637

: Portrait of William I , Willem Jacobs Delff after Adriaen van de Venne, 1623

: Self-Portrait, after Anna Maria van Schurman, 1643

: Portrait of Hugo Grotius, Willem Jacobs Delff after Michiel Jans van Mierevelt, 1632

: Self-Portrait, Anna Maria van Schurman, 1630s

: Portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, Jan Lievens, 1649

: Portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, Cornelis van Dalen de Jonge after Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, ca. 1660

: Portrait of Dirck Volkerts Coornhert, Hendrick Goltzius, ca. 1592

: Self-Portrait, Jan van Munnikhuysen after Anna Maria van Schurman, 1673

BO ANDERSSON is Professor of German Linguistics and Literature at Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sweden. He received the following degrees: Fil. kand. Stockholm 1977, M.A. University of Cincinnati 1979, fil. dr. Stockholm 1986. His main research interests are: seventeenth-century language, literature, and culture, especially Jacob Bhme ( Jacob Bhmes Denken Bildern , 2007). He is the co-editor of Frn Nyens Skans till Nya Sverige (2012), a collection of articles on the languages in seventeen-century Sweden (he is the author of the volumes essay on German). Currently he is working on an edition of Nordischer werauch , Aurora von Knigsmarcks collection of devotional poetry. Andersson is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

THOMAS G. BENEDEK, M.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He has also been teaching the history of medicine to undergraduates and medical students for thirty years. He is past president of the American Society for the History of Medicine and past vice-president of the International Society for the History of Medicine. His research has focused on the history of the rheumatic diseases and medicine in the Reformation period. In 2012 he published an article on the history of gout (The Spider and the Gout: The Thousand Year History of a Fable) in Gutes Leben und guter Tod von der Sptantike bis zur Gegenwart , ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter).

ELIZA BUHRER received her Ph.D from the Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University in 2013 and is an Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, where she teaches Western Civilization and courses on various aspects of the early and high Middle Ages. Her doctoral work focused on the cultural history of mental disorder and specifically explored how people in late medieval England imagined intelligence and its absence before a concrete concept of intellectual disability emerged in the western medical tradition. She is currently expanding this research into a broader project on the history of intellectual disability in the pre-modern world.

ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at The University of Arizona. He has published more than seventy books, most recently The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process (2007), The Power of a Womans Voice (2007); the English translation of the poems by Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/771445) (2008); a book on Sixteenth-Century German Jest Narratives ( Deutsche Schwankliteratur , 2009); Lied und Liederbuch in der Frhen Neuzeit , together with Lukas Richter, 2009, and Tiere als Freunde im Mittelalter , together with Gabriela Kompatscher and Peter Dinzelbacher (2010). In 2011 he published Sex im Mittelalter . Among the volumes that he has edited recently are Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2008), Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time (2008), Urban Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time (2009), War and Peace (2011), and Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time (2012). A three-volume Handbook of Medieval Studies (with Walter de Gruyter) appeared in 2010 (award of the Outstanding Academic Title by Choice ). His latest books dealt with the history of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries in eighteenth-century Sonora, The Letters of the Swiss Jesuit Missionary Philipp Segesser (16891762) , and Early History of the Southwest Through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries (both 2012). In 2008 the University of Arizona bestowed upon him its highest award for research, the Henry & Phyllis Koffler Award. In 2004 the German government awarded him with the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Band (Order of Merit), its highest civilian award. He has also received numerous teaching and service awards over the last two decades, most recently the Five Star Faculty Award (2009) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2012 Arizona Professor of the Year Award. He is serving as editor of the journals Mediaevistik and HumanitiesOpen Access, Online . For many years he has been the president of the Arizona chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, and recently he completed his function as President/Past President of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association for the third time.