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…

Marleen Cré onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Marleen Cré Walter Hilton’s Confessions in 'De imagine peccati and Epistola de utilitate et prerogativis religionis' Bron Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent / Brown, Jennifer N. [edit.]; et …

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…

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…

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 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 …

Tom Gaens onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Tom Gaens De Leuvense kartuizers en de universiteit ten tijde van het humanisme Bron Eigen schoon en de Brabander - ISSN 2031-342X-108 (2025) p. 15-26 Auteur(s) Tom Gaens Citatielink Wasser with Wein : Heinrich von Coesfeld als Prägender Theologe des Mel…

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 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…

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…

Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts search menu search content KENOSPHERA Performance by the Quantum Choir 17 October 2025 - Royal Conservatoire Antwerp with AISHA PAGNES, ALESSIA SQUARCELLA, ANKE LUDWIG, ANNA DEHAENE, CELIA TORT PUJOL, DANIEL PENCELA, ELODIE COLLIN, IRIS VEESTRAETEN, KATELIJNE …

Bonnie Zhixi Chen postdoc 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 vis…

Tom Gaens unpaid staff Publications Tom Gaens De Leuvense kartuizers en de universiteit ten tijde van het humanisme Source Eigen schoon en de Brabander - ISSN 2031-342X-108 (2025) p. 15-26 Author(s) Tom Gaens Citation link Wasser with Wein : Heinrich von Coesfeld als Prägender Theologe des Melker R…

Lieke Smits onbezoldigd medewerker Onderzoek Lieke Smits Onderzoeksgroep Onderzoekscentrum Ruusbroecgenootschap Expertise Lieke Smits Ze is mediëvist en kunsthistoricus, geïnteresseerd in de laatmiddeleeuwse religieuze verbeelding en devotionele praktijken. Ze promoveerde op een proefschrift over …

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 (…

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…

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

Onderzoekscentrum Ruusbroecgenootschap zoeken menu zoek inhoud Archief Een overzicht van onze activiteiten van de laatste jaren Ruusbroecdagen (2014-2023) Elk jaar organiseert het Ruusbroecgenootschap rond de sterfdag van Jan van Ruusbroec (2 december 1381) de Ruusbroecdag, sinds 2016 in samenwerkin…