Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Mystical Freedom Colloquium "Mystical Freedom: Traditions and Future" 1-2 December 2016 University of Antwerp, Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp Colloquium organized in cooperation with the Ruusbroec Institute and the University Centre …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Mystical Theology Network Annual conference (Antwerp: 4-6 June 2025) Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (Relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism The Ruusbroec Institute, Antwerp University and the Mysti…

Robert Faesen emeritus occasional assignment Education Robert Faesen 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2022-2023 Introduction in Christian Culture Introduction in Christian Culture Course code: 1030FLWGES Bachelor of History Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature: Dutch-TFL Bachelor of Linguistics and L…

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…

Veerle Fraeters full professor Education Veerle Fraeters 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2022-2023 Mystical authors Mystical authors Course code: 2003FLWTLN Master of Linguistics and Literature: Dutch Master of Linguistics and Literature: German-Dutch Master of Linguistics and Literature: English-Dutc…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Mysticisim: anonymous texts The second quarter of the sixteenth century saw the emergence of a short-lived mystical renaissance in the Low Countries duchy of Guelders and in the neighbouring Rhineland. The Saint-Agnes convent in Arnhem w…

Linguistics and Literary Studies Dutch Dutch 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2025-2026 Important: Students following the Master of Linguistics and Literature cannot choose courses for languages they did not study in the Bachelor. Model Path Besides the Master's …

Robert Faesen emeritus occasionele opdracht Publicaties Robert Faesen Western vernacular mystics Bron The Oxford handbook of deification / Gavrilyuk, P. L. [edit.]; Hofer, A. [edit.]; Levering, M. [edit.]-p. 282-300 Auteur(s) John Arblaster, Rob Faesen, Louise Nelstrop Citatielink Medieval mystical …

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…

John Arblaster associate professor Education John Arblaster 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2025-2026 Introduction to Christian Culture Introduction to Christian Culture Course code: 1030FLWGES Bachelor of History Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature: Dutch-TFL Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature…

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…

Linguistics and Literary Studies Dutch Dutch 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2025-2026 Important: students in this master cannot take courses in other languages than those taken in the bachelor. The students take courses for 36 ECTS-credits from two sections: se…

Linguistics and Literary Studies Dutch Dutch 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2025-2026 Important: students in this master cannot take courses in other languages than those taken in the bachelor. The students take, in addition to the master's thesis (18 ECTS-cred…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Symposia and lectures 4-6 June 2025 Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (Relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism Annual conference of the Mystical Theology Network Location: Antwerp Organisation: Ruusbro…

John Arblaster hoofddocent Publicaties John Arblaster 'Flowing from the Wild Sea and Back to the Sea': water metaphors and mystical union in the late medieval Low Countries Bron Journal of religion - ISSN 0022-4189-98:2 (2018) p. 169-191 Auteur(s) John Arblaster Citatielink The blessed and the burne…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Beatrice of Nazareth Beatrice of Nazareth (ca. 1200-1268) was prioress in the Cistercian abbey of Our Lady in Nazareth (near Lier in Brabant). She is well known for her treatise Seven manieren van minne (Seven manners of love) in which s…

Robert Faesen emeritus occasional assignment Publications Robert Faesen Western vernacular mystics Source The Oxford handbook of deification / Gavrilyuk, P. L. [edit.]; Hofer, A. [edit.]; Levering, M. [edit.]-p. 282-300 Author(s) John Arblaster, Rob Faesen, Louise Nelstrop Citation link Medieval mys…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Mysticism As all mysticism, Christian mysticism can only be known as far as it is uttered in language. These testimonies describe mystical experience as a direct and passive experience of God. In itself it is suprarational and above all …

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Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content John of Ruusbroec John of Ruusbroec (1293-1381) is one of the most important mystical authors in the Christian tradition. He combined the Latin tradition of authors like William of St. Thierry and Bernard of Clairvaux with Middle Dutch w…

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Linguistics and Literary Studies German-Dutch German-Dutch 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2025-2026 Important: Students following the Master of Linguistics and Literature cannot choose courses for languages they did not study in the Bachelor. German-Dutch The s…

John Arblaster associate professor Publications John Arblaster 'Flowing from the Wild Sea and Back to the Sea': water metaphors and mystical union in the late medieval Low Countries Source Journal of religion - ISSN 0022-4189-98:2 (2018) p. 169-191 Author(s) John Arblaster Citation link The blessed …

John Arblaster associate professor About John Arblaster John Arblaster Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. +3232655781 Grote Kauwenberg 34 2000 Antwerpen, BEL John Arblaster (Bonheiden, 1985) is associate professor at the Ruusbroec Institute, of which he is currently the director. He is also…

Linguistics and Literary Studies English-Dutch English-Dutch 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2025-2026 Important: Students following the Master of Linguistics and Literature cannot choose courses for languages they did not study in the Bachelor. English-Dutch Th…