Cornelis van der Haven, PhD (2008, Utrecht University) is Associate Professor at Ghent University in the field of early modern Dutch literature. He published widely about Dutch and German literary history of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literature in shaping cultural and social identities.Jan Bloemendal, PhD (1997, Utrecht University) is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute and Professor of Neo-Latin at the Ruhr University Bochum. He published widely on Neo-Latin, drama and Erasmus, including (with Howard B. Norland), Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2013).Youri Desplenter, PhD (2004, Ghent University) is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature (Middle Ages) at Ghent University. He has published on Middle Dutch religious literature, including De Bijbel in de Lage Landen. Elf eeuwen van vertalen (Heerenveen: 2015; co-ed.).James A. Parente, Jr., PhD (1979, Yale University) is Emeritus Professor of German, Scandinavian and Dutch literature. He is the author of Religious Drama and the Humanist Tradition: Christian Theater in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500-1680 (Leiden, 1987), and has published widely on early modern drama and prose, Neo-Latin literature and transnational literary history.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJan Bloemendal, Youri Desplenter, James A. Parente Jr. and Cornelis van der Havenpart 1: Mediators1 Not Just a Love Story: The Dutch Translations of John Barclay’s ArgenisLia van Gemert and Lucas van der Deijl2 Bringing Young Grandisons Across the ChannelPlural and Interacting Mediator Roles as Vital Forces Behind the Production and Circulation of Transnational Children’s LiteratureFeike Dietzpart 2: Genres3 The Dutch Reynaert Tradition in National and European PerspectivePaul Wackers4 An Appeal to Study Dutch Mirrors-for-Magistrates across Linguistic, Geographical, and Institutional BoundariesDavid Napolitano5 Neo-Latin Drama between Nationality and TransnationalityJan Bloemendal6 Educating for Empire: Romance and Nation in Johan van Heemskerck’s Batavische Arcadia (1637)James A. Parente Jr.part 3: Places7 Lotharingia Lost?: An Exploration of the Utility of an Aborted Concept for the Study of Medieval Literature in the Low CountriesFrank Willaert8 Jan van Leeuwen, Johannes Tauler, Their Writings, and Their ConnectionsThe Fourteenth-Century Brabant and Rhinelandic Mystical Traditions as Textual CommunityYouri Desplenter9 Jacob van Maerlant’s Martijn Poems from a Multilingual PerspectiveBart Besamusca10 The Pearl from Spain: Calderón’s La vida es sueño in the Dutch-Speaking TerritoriesFrans R.E. BlomIndex