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 …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Interviews on mysticism Our experts speak Interviews On this page on our Dutch website you will find interviews with (former) members of the Ruusbroec Institute about mystics and their mystical texts by Joop van der Elst. More interviews…

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 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…

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 …

Veerle Fraeters full professor 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 mysticis…

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…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Digital publications and sources Hadewijch's Songs - Interviews on mysticism - Research tools Research tools The Ruusbroec Institute Research Tools are a platform for a.o.: links to databases developed by the Ruusbroec Institute addition…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Ruusbroec Institute Library The Ruusbroec Institute Library is a modern and up to date research library with a fully equipped reading room. It houses a large collection of books and journals on the history of religious culture, spiritual…

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 …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Jesuits The Ruusbroec Institute was founded by Jesuits, and still is closely connected to the Jesuit congregation in Antwerp. Jesuit activity in Antwerp and in the Low Countries has always been a special interest of its researchers. The …

Linde Tuybens Publicaties Linde Tuybens Dataset: Symposium on Open Science in Qualitative Research - 25 September 2025 - University of Antwerp Bron -, Zenodo, 2025, Auteur(s) Bea Mertens, Eline Vandewalle, Linde Tuybens, Bea Mertens, Tamarinde Haven, Linde Tuybens, Nicki Lisa Cole, Charlotte De Back…

Kristof Smeyers onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Kristof Smeyers 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 centur…

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 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…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content 100th anniversary (2025) The Ruusbroec Institute's 100th birthday The Ruusbroec Institute was founded in 1925. It, therefore, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2025. Special activities in English: Lecture: Divine dishes. Feasting on re…

Linde Tuybens expert Publications Linde Tuybens 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. 179-198 Auth…

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…

Instituut Joodse Studies zoeken menu zoek inhoud Mystieke vrijheid Colloquium 'Mystieke vrijheid: Tradities en Toekomst' 1-2 december 2016 Universiteit Antwerpen, Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen Colloquium georganiseerd in samenwerking met het Ruusbroecgenootschap en het Universitair Ce…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa. She serves as Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Her re…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Lectures, exhibitions and workshops We hope to meet you soon The Ruusbroec Institute actively shares its expertise with colleagues and anyone with an interest in the history of spirituality. Everybody can learn about the results of our r…

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…

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…

Kristof Smeyers unpaid staff Publications Kristof Smeyers 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. 17…

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. …