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…

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. …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Passion: Histories of the Heart Exhibition (1 April - 20 May) and city walk in Antwerp (14 February - 20 May 2021) Passion: Histories of the Heart tells some of the many histories of our most intimate muscle. The heart pumps blood and ox…

Bonnie Zhixi Chen predoc researcher FWO Research Bonnie Zhixi Chen Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Visual Catechism and Spiritual Formation: Jesuit Art in the Counter-Reformation Low Countries. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This project explores how Jesuit art functioned as visu…

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…

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…

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…

Tine Van Osselaer hoofddocent Over Tine Van Osselaer Tine Van Osselaer Contact Stadscampus Toon e-mailadres Tel. +3232655785 Grote Kauwenberg 34 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Tine Van Osselaer is hoofddocent in de geschiedenis van spiritualiteit, devotie en mystiek aan het Ruusbroecgenootschap. Haar onderzoek…

Lieke Smits onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Lieke Smits Dynamic domestic devotion : pipe-clay images moving through the home in the late medieval Low Countries Bron Material religion - ISSN 1743-2200-22:2 (2026) p. 137-154 Auteur(s) Lieke Smits Citatielink Material entanglements and flows of life…

Leonardo Rossi onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Leonardo Rossi Mystical phenomena as symptoms of social disease Bron 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-…

Evelyne Verheggen onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Evelyne Verheggen Painted devotion to saints in Vermeer’s allegory of the Catholic faith Bron Closer to Vermeer : new research on the painter and his art / Gabrieli, Francesca [edit.]; van Kooij, Barbera [edit.]; et al. [edit.]-p. 350-357 Auteur…

Thom Mertens emeritus occasional assignment Research Thom Mertens Research team The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe. 01/04/2015 - 31/12/2015 Abstract This project represents a research contract awarded by the University of Antwerp. The supervisor provides the Antwerp University resear…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Traineeships at the Ruusbroec Institute Library A look behind the scenes of a heritage library Every year the Ruusbroec Institute Library offers traineeships to students as part of their academic curriculum (e.g. library sciences, book h…

Lieke Smits unpaid staff Publications Lieke Smits Dynamic domestic devotion : pipe-clay images moving through the home in the late medieval Low Countries Source Material religion - ISSN 1743-2200-22:2 (2026) p. 137-154 Author(s) Lieke Smits Citation link Material entanglements and flows of life: The…

Tine Van Osselaer hoofddocent Onderzoek Tine Van Osselaer Onderzoeksgroep Onderzoekscentrum Ruusbroecgenootschap Expertise Tine Van Osselaer is professor in de geschiedenis van de spiritualiteit, devotie en mystiek aan het Ruusbroecgenootschap van de Universiteit Antwerpen. Ze werkt over religie en …

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 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 …

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…

Veerle Fraeters Research Veerle Fraeters Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise - Middle Dutch literature: mystical texts, women authors, Hadewijch; alchemical texts - Mysticism: vernacular mysticism, 'mystique co…

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…

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 …

Pierre Delsaerdt professor Research Pierre Delsaerdt Research team Centre for Urban History Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Expertise Historical study of the book: production techniques, design, publishing and the booktrade, libraries, cultures of collecting, books …

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…

Onderzoekscentrum Ruusbroecgenootschap zoeken menu zoek inhoud Stigmatici Onderzoek naar stigmatici uit de negentiende en twintigste eeuw kan nieuwe inzichten opleveren in beleefde religie, 'celebrity culture' en de verering van levende heiligen, politiek katholicisme en de spanning en samenwerking …