Nele De Raedt, Engineer Architect and Doctor of Architectural Sciences and Engineering (Ghent University), is Associate Professor in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture at UCLouvain, LAB Institute (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Her research focuses on architectural history and theory of the late medieval and early modern period (1400-1700) with a specific interest in the ethical and political questions related to architectural patronage and design. She is associate member of GEMCA (Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis) and LAA (Laboratoire Analyse d’Architecture) at UCLouvain. She has worked at different international research institutes, such as the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and the Belgian Academy in Rome. She presented her research at multiple international conferences and has published in international peer reviewed journals such as Renaissance Quarterly and Urban History. As an editorial assistant, she helped to co-found Architectural Histories, the online open access journal of the EAHN, and continued as an editorial board member afterwards.

Philip Muijtjens is an art historian and classicist with an interest in medieval and Renaissance art and thought. He studied History of Art and Classics at Leiden University, followed by an MPhil in History of Art at the University of Cambridge where he also completed his PhD in 2024. His doctoral research focused on the social culture around funerary monuments in Italy in ca.1300-1530. In November 2024, Philip joined UCLouvain as a postdoctoral researcher on the project Governing and Building the City, under the direction of Professor Nele De Raedt. In this project, Philip will explore how the built environment was conceptualised and shaped in relation to questions and discussions of good governance. An emphasis will be placed on mirrors and other moralising texts which were meant to educate their readers.

Minne De Boodt is a historian interested in the interactions between governors and the governed, ideas of good governance, urban life, and the built environment of late medieval cities. She studied medieval history at KU Leuven University, where she earned her PhD in June 2023. Her doctoral research examined late medieval political thinking, exploring how ideas of good governance inspired diverse social groups to engage politically in the fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries. In October 2024, Minne joined UCLouvain as a postdoctoral researcher on the project Governing and Building the City, led by Professor Nele De Raedt. This project investigates how the built environment of late medieval cities was conceptualized and shaped in relation to questions of good governance. Minne also remains affiliated with the Research Group Medieval History at KU Leuven as a substitute lecturer.