Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Devotional Prints Devotional prints The devotional print collection at the Ruusbroec Institute Library is unequalled in the Low Countries, and counts, by estimation, 40 000 prints, pictures and drawings from before ca. 1850. Since 2014 t…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Devotional literature In Tune with Eternity (2012-2016) Since the 1470’s onwards collections of vernacular devout songs have been copied into manuscripts. These codices were often owned by (semi)religious women. Many questions about th…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Current research Which questions do we try to answer? The Ruusbroec Institute is active in a unique domain of research. Nowhere else has the history of spirituality in the Low Countries been studied on a long-term, structural basis in su…

Archives and Heritage search menu search content Thijs collection - Heritage Library Thijs Collection of devotional images and texts is now online The Special Collections division of the University of Antwerp Library is pleased to announce that ca. 1100 objects from the extensive collection of the h…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Seminar: Fragments of heaven on earth Seminar: Fragments of Heaven on Earth (26 April 2017) Research Training on Devotional Prints and Relics from the Heritage Collection of the Ruusbroec Institute Organized by the Ruusbroec Institute Th…

Lieke Smits unpaid staff Research Lieke Smits Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise Lieke Smits is a medievalist and art historian, interested in the late medieval religious imagination and devotional practices. She wrote a dissertation on the influence of bridal mysticism on t…

Marleen Cré unpaid staff Publications Marleen Cré Walter Hilton’s Confessions in 'De imagine peccati and Epistola de utilitate et prerogativis religionis' Source Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent / Brown, Jennifer N. [edit.]; et al.-p. …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Research at the Ruusbroec Institute Research projects since 2000 The Ruusbroec Institute has a long research tradition. Many publications by its former members of staff (e.g. Jozef Van Mierlo, Albert Ampe or Paul Mommaers) remain relevan…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content The library's history Treasuring spiritual heritage since 1925 The Ruusbroec Institute and its Library were founded in 1925. However, in the early years there was no proper library building. The large collection of books belonging the fo…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Who are we? The Ruusbroec Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre for the academic study of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries. Drawing mainly on textual sources, we employ research perspectives pertaining to the …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Reproductions Microfilms and other reproductions The Ruusbroec Institute Library owns a collection of ca. 1000 microfilms and other reproductions (microfiches, paper copies) of medieval manuscripts kept in libraries all over Europe, in t…

Lieke Smits unpaid staff About Lieke Smits Lieke Smits Contact Stadscampus Show email address Grote Kauwenberg 34 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Lieke Smits is an FWO junior Junior postdoctoral fellow, conducting her research at the Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp. She is a medievalist and art…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Special Collections Special Collections The Ruusbroec Institute Library is a recognised heritage library, and holds a number of special collections: Approx. 500 manuscripts, including 34 which date from between the twelfth and fifteenth …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Ruusbroec Institute 100 years of leading academic research into the history of spirituality in the Low Countries The Ruusbroec Institute is an interdisciplinary research centre for the academic study of the history of spirituality in the…

Arts Research at the Faculty of Arts Research at the Faculty of Arts On this page: Departments and research groups Institutes and expertise centres Find out more: Research axes spin-offs Doctoral research Departments and research groups Department of History Centre for Urban History The Centre for U…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Marguerite Porete Writing into annihilation. The performative power of Le Miroir des simples âmes anéanties of Marguerite Porete as mystatogic tool (2007-2012) The project aims to gain insight into the performative power (agency) of Ma…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Reproductions Photocopying - Scanning - Photographing - Digitizing Photocopying and scanning A self-service photocopying and scanning machine is available in the reading room. Readers should obtain a copy card at the University Library (…

John Arblaster associate professor Research John Arblaster Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Expertise John Arblaster mainly conducts research into medieval and early modern mystics from the Low Countries, with a parti…

Books and Culture | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content The Plantin Press and the Religious Book Location: University of Antwerp Date: 27 June - 1 July 2022 Partners: Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum Antwerp, Consortium of European …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Ruusbroec Institute Staff We love to share our expertise with you Director prof. dr. John Arblaster Permanent academic members of staff prof. dr. John Arblaster - Lecturer prof. dr. Veerle Fraeters - Professor prof. dr. Kees Schepers - L…

Archives and Heritage search menu search content Wikimedia - Heritage Library Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Through Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons the University Library publishes historical print collections as Linked Open Data and free of copyright. Collections The historical print collections of…

University Fund search menu search content Baroque Influencers Baroque influencers. Jesuits, the city and the muses The Baroque period in Antwerp is inextricably linked with the Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation. Through education, preaching and pastoral care, the order promoted the Catholic faith…

Books and Culture | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Workshops Monday 27 June Location: venue to be announce 19:00 Evening event: Via Via Travelers’ Cafe Informal gathering, meet and greet of participants and staff Tuesday 28 June Location: Reading Room Ruusbroe…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Printed religious books from before 1800 In much of the research at the Ruusbroec Institute religious texts, both handwritten and printed, have provided the focal point. This has lead to numerous publications. It has also lead to the cre…

Tine De Koninck Academic interim staff postdoc Research Tine De Koninck Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Frivolity in church. A study of the cultural transfer of French air de cour melodies into sacred songbooks in the seventeenth-century Southern Low C…