Autor: Piet Steenbakkers

Dr Jeroen M.M. van de Ven is a specialist in late medieval history and codicology, the history of the book and the history of seventeenth-century Dutch Enlightenment thought, more particularly of the intellectual networks of René Descartes and Benedictus de Spinoza. Together with Theo Verbeek and Erik-Jan Bos, he edited The Correspondence of Descartes 1643 (Utrecht, 2003), a pilot study for a new critical edition of Descartes“s correspondence. Van de Ven is currently preparing an annotated chronology in English of Spinoza“s life and works (scheduled 2012).