Geschiedenis Blog Wouter Broekmans Blog Wouter Broekmans Van de negende tot de dertiende eeuw was de gemiddelde temperatuur in Noord-Europa enkele graden warmer dan nu. Ook was het klimaat aanzienlijk droger. Tijdens dit ‘Middeleeuwse Klimaatoptimum’ was het zelfs mogelijk om Mediterrane kruiden…

Patricia Stoop praktijkassistent Patricia Stoop Nieuwe publicaties 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: Brepols, 2022 (Sermo: Studies on …

Patricia Stoop teaching assistant My website Patricia Stoop Patricia Stoop is a research fellow at the Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp. Until March 2023 she taught Historical Dutch Literature in the Department of Literature of the same university). She held the prestigious Visiting …

Kees Schepers associate professor Research Kees Schepers Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise My expertise lies in the field of mediëval and earl-modern spiritual literature in The Low Countries. I have published studies and critical editions of spiritual literature both in M…

Patricia Stoop 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: Brepols, 2022 (Sermo: Studies on P…

Patricia Stoop teaching assistant Research Patricia Stoop Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise Patricia Stoop is teaching Historical Dutch Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp …

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…

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 Sermons Sermons have been written down since the early days of Christianity. The Low Countries have known a rich tradition of writing down sermons since the Middle Ages. Some 3,700 different Middle Dutch sermons survive. The Ruusbroec In…

Ontwerpwetenschappen JDS - 2018 JDS - 2018 32nd 'Joint Doctoral Seminar in History and Theory of Architecture' Thursday 13 September 2018 - University of Antwerp The architecture faculties and architectural engineering departments of Universiteit Antwerpen, KU Leuven, Université Catholique de Louva…

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…

Mike Kestemont full research professor Research Mike Kestemont Research team Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS) Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC) Expe…

Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Modernist Authors' Reading: Genesis in Authors' Libraries (MARGINAL). 01/01/2026 - 31/12/2030 Abstract MARGINAL examines authors' creativity through the traces of their own reading. The …

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Academic Projects - Centre for Urban History Ongoing projects Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examine…