Lucas Burkart has been Professor of History at the University of Basel since 2012. His research focuses on medieval and Renaissance culture and society and on their global entanglements. Currently, he is also overseeing the completion of the critical edition of the works by Jacob Burckhardt.
Beate Fricke is Professor for Medieval Art at the University of Bern since 2017. Her research focuses on the history of sculpture, image theory and the veneration of images in the Middle Ages as well as on objects as archives, knowledge transfer and trade in the global «Middle Ages».