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• Notes on Contributors

Andrea Bubenik is Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Queensland. Her expertise is in Renaissance and Baroque art and the continued reception of early modern visual culture. Her books include The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture (editor; Routledge, 2019) and Reframing Albrecht Dürer (Ashgate, 2013); she was the curator of the exhibitions 'Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond' (2017) and 'Five Centuries of Melancholia' (2014), both held at the UQ Art Museum.

Megan Cassidy-Welch is Dean of Research Strategy at the University of Divinity. Her recent publications include Crusades and Violence (ARC Humanities Press, 2023); War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019); and Remembering the Crusades and Crusading (editor; Routledge, 2017). She has published widely on the cultural and religious history of the high Middle Ages and is currently working on ideas of spiritual health among medieval crusaders and pilgrims, and a long history of homelessness. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has held leadership positions at The University of Queensland (including as McCaughey Chair of History) and Monash University prior to her appointment at the University of Divinity in 2024.

Pia F. Cuneo is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Arizona, where she taught classes in Renaissance art for thirty-one years. She has been publishing on the nexus of art and hippology in early modern Germany since 2000. Currently she is writing a book on the equine imagery of Hans Baldung (d. 1545), as well as an essay on armour for a horse made in 1548 for a volume on early modern fashion. Her most recent publications deal with the nexus between Reformation theology and equine imagery, and with the role of humour in the woodcuts by Baldung discussed in this Parergon issue. Horses first came into her life in 1996 and she has been owning and riding them ever since.

John E. Curran Jr, (PhD from University of Virginia) has been teaching English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, since 1997. He has written three monographs on English Renaissance literature, about the historiography of ancient Britain (2002), about Hamlet and theology (2006), and about characterization in the drama (2014). He has written many articles on such figures as Shakespeare, Milton, Chapman, Jonson, and John Fletcher and his collaborators; his most recent work is a series of articles on Spenser's Faerie Queene exploring the role of logic in the poem's 'analysis' of virtue ethics. Since 2012 he has served as the editor of Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion, a peer-reviewed journal of literary study now in its seventy-sixth year.

Sonia Hernández-Santano is a Lecturer in English at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches English literature. She has edited William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetry (2016) for the MHRA Critical Texts Series. She has also co-edited with Zenón Luis-Martínez the special issue Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts: Rethinking Renaissance Poetic Theory and Practice for Parergon (2016), which includes her chapter entitled 'William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetry: Vindicating Spenser as an Act of Self-Fashioning'. Her more recent interests have focused on the theory and practice of rhetoric as reflected in English epyllia, on which she has recently published a book chapter entitled '"Eloquent Bodies": Rhetoricising the Symptoms of Love in the English Epyllion', in Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). She is currently working on a critical edition of Thomas Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis for the MHRA.

Zenón Luis-Martínez is Professor of English Studies at the University of Huelva, Spain, where he teaches medieval and early modern literature. He is the author of In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy (Rodopi, 2002). He has edited Abraham Fraunce's The Shepherds' Logic and Other Dialectical Writings for the MHRA Critical Texts Series (2016), and coedited (with Sonia Hernández-Santano) the special issue Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the...