Marc Boone Editor

Bruno Blondé is affiliated to the Centre for Urban History and the Urban Studies Institute at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. He publishes on the history of urban networks in the Low Countries, pre-industrial transport, the history of consumption and material culture, retail trade, urban growth and social inequality. Marc Boone teaches medieval history at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. At the moment, his research is oriented primarily toward financial urban history, the social and political history of towns in the late medieval Low Countries and Burgundian history. Anne-Laure Van Bruaene teaches cultural history of the early modern era at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. Her research is oriented toward urban culture in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, especially the Reformation and the Dutch Revolt, guilds and confraternities as well as the social context of art, literature and religion.