Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (C. 1450-1600)

Anna Dlabačová, Ph.D. (2014), is Associate Professor at Leiden University and PI of the project 'Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550' (ERC Starting Grant).

Andrea van Leerdam, Ph.D., is a book historian at Utrecht University with a particular interest in the materiality of early printed books, early modern reading practices, and visual culture. She has previously worked as a humanities communications advisor.

John J. Thompson is Professor emeritus at Queen's University, Belfast and honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has written widely on late medieval and Early Modern English book history with a particular focus on significant transitional episodes in pre and post Reformation English textual cultures.