Bert De Munck is Full Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He teaches 'Early Modern History', 'Theory of Historical Knowledge', and 'Heritage and Public history'. He is a member of the Centre for Urban History, Antwerp, and the Director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute. De Munck is the author of
Technologies of Learning: Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Régime (2007). He is also the co-editor, along with Steven Laurence Kaplan and Hugo Soly, of
Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship (2007) and, with Anne Winter, of
Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (2012).
Thomas Max Safley is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His most recent work includes Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (2019), as author, and Labor Before the Industrial Revolution (2018), as editor. A specialist in the economic and social history of early modern Europe, he has published extensively on the history of marriage and the family, the history of poverty and charity, and the history of labor and business.
