Arie van Steensel is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Groningen. He specialises in the medieval and early modern history of western Europe and has a special interest in the urban history of Italy, England, and the Low Countries. Currently, he is the secretary of the European Association for Urban History.Ariadne Schmidt is Professor of the History of Urban Culture, in particular of Leiden, at Leiden University. She specialises in urban history, the history of work, and gender and family history. Her publications include Prosecuting Women: A Comparative Perspective on Crime and Gender before the Dutch Criminal Courts (Brill, 2020).
