Patricia Stoop academic interim staff postdoc - teaching assistant Patricia Stoop New publications Veronica O’Mara & Patricia Stoop (eds), Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Catholic Preaching and Preachers across Manuscript and Print (c. 1450 to c. 1550), Turnhout: B…

Kristof Smeyers unpaid staff Research Kristof Smeyers Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute The political weight of carrying Christ's wounds. Stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950. 01/10/2016 - 30/09/2020 Abstract Rather than analyzing medical and theological expert discourses and single cas…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Stigmatics Research on stigmatics of the nineteenth and early twentieth century can provide new insights on lived religion, celebrity culture and the cult of living saints, political Catholicisms, and the tensions and collaborations betw…

Leonardo Rossi unpaid staff Research Leonardo Rossi Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise Leonardo Rossi is a postdoc researcher at the Ruusbroec Institute, Antwerp University (Belgium), specialising in religious studies, particularly the history of Italian Catholicism in the N…

Lowie Vercruysse predoc researcher FWO Research Lowie Vercruysse Research team Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS) Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Exploiting innovative chemical imaging techniques to understand the creative process and studio practice in Rubens' large altarpiec…

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Tine Van Osselaer associate professor Research Tine Van Osselaer Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise Tine Van Osselaer is a professor of the history of spirituality, devotion, and mysticism at the Ruusbroec Society of the University of Antwerp. She works on religion and gende…

Pastoral Service search menu search content Reflection and liturgy Providing pastoral care for the liturgy is one of our core tasks. The ideal location for this? The Ignatius chapel, an “oasis of calm” amid the bustle of the Stadscampus. During Advent and Lent (the peak seasons of the liturgical…

Tine Van Osselaer associate professor About Tine Van Osselaer Tine Van Osselaer Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. +3232655785 Grote Kauwenberg 34 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Tine Van Osselaer is associate professor in the history of spirituality, devotion and mysticism at the Ruusbroec Institute. …

Evelyne Verheggen unpaid staff Publications Evelyne Verheggen Painted devotion to saints in Vermeer’s allegory of the Catholic faith Source Closer to Vermeer : new research on the painter and his art / Gabrieli, Francesca [edit.]; van Kooij, Barbera [edit.]; et al. [edit.]-p. 350-357 Author(s) Eve…

Leonardo Rossi unpaid staff Publications Leonardo Rossi Mystical phenomena as symptoms of social disease Source Pazzi di Lui-Maf dor Him : Hagiographic stereotypes, mental disturbances and antropological implications of female saintliness in Italy and aborad from the 13th to the 20th century-p. 179-…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Primary Sources Nineteenth and twentieth century primary sources Although the collection of primary sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be less impressive than the other special …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Hand Press Books Early printed books Most books in our collection of early printed books are on Christian morality and private devotion. Even more so than our manuscripts and incunabula, they represent the specific research focus of the …

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Non Written Output search menu search content Marian character The Marian character of the City of Antwerp Disclosing facade sculptures via mobile digital media The VZW Kruis en Beeld aims to inventory, conserve, restore and disclose the massive collection of Marian (and other saints) statues, which…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content Lies, Exaggeration and Myths in Historiography 21 November 2022 - Tine Van Osselaer Location: S.S209 ARIA attic, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp Time: 14h30-17h, unless communicated otherwise Target audience: junior academic and artistic rese…

Academic calendar search search content Academic calendar Your study planning tool The academic year is divided into two semesters with thirteen weeks of classes followed by an exam period. Check the academic calendar to find out when there are activities, public holidays, exam periods, graduation c…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Devotional Prints DEVOTIO Print database of the Ruusbroec Institute Devotional prints The devotional print collection at the Ruusbroec Institute Library is unequalled in the Low Countries, and counts, by estimation, 40 000 prints, pictur…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Miracles The tradition of collecting cultic miracle stories stretches from Augustine’s miracles of Saint Stephen to those of Our Lady of Czestochowa today. During the late medieval and early modern period, parish churches and guilds in…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Scope The magic lantern The magic lantern was one of the first visual mass media. It was used for visual communication in education, religion and politics, but also in science and art. Scientists and entertainers, teachers and priests, political movements and organ…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Publications Our most important contributions to the knowledge of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 (2020) In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic eme…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Research tools Profit from our research The Ruusbroec Institute Research tools are a platform for a.o.: links to databases developed by the Ruusbroec Institute additions to publications by members of the Ruusbroec Institute unpublished r…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content The Avant-Garde and the Jews The Avant-Garde and the Jews International conference 2-4 February 2015 University of Antwerp, Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen In the last decade, a number of studies in various disciplines have addresse…