Arjo Vanderjagt is professor of the history of ideas at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is founding editor of Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, associate editor of Studies in the History of Christian Thought, and co-editor with Gerrit Reinink of Mediaevalia Groningana. He is a member of the editorial boards of several other series, e.g. Fifteenth-Century Studies (Rochester - Woodbridge: Camden House) and Groningen Studies in Cultural Change (Leuven: Peeters).
Scholarly interests: neoplatonism, ancient Nubia, anthropology of the church fathers, Anselm of Canterbury, the crusades, fifteenth-century Burgundy, the relation between literary style and philosophy/philosophical texts, the relation between literature and philosophy, renaissance humanism, Dante, chivalric ideology, history of universities, ideas of love in the Middle Ages, medieval travel, early-modern political thought and ideology.