This special issue was funded by the European Research Council starting grant program “Elevated Minds: The Sublime in the Public Arts in Seventeenth-Century Paris and Amsterdam."
This special issue of JHNA has been guest edited by Stijn Bussels, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society and director of the European Research Council starting grant program Elevated Minds, The Sublime in the Public Arts in Seventeenth-Century Paris and Amsterdam, at Leiden University (2013-2018). His co-editor is Bram van Oostveldt, Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher for the ERC research program.