Hadewijch

This heuristic project aims to inventory the academic, as well as the literary and artistic, reception of Hadewijch's oeuvre, from its discovery in 1838 till today. It suppors four projects: (1) an exhibition on the modern reception of Hadewijch in 2017, (2) the book project Companion to Hadewijch (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), (3) the international NWO-project ‘Circulation of Dutch Literature’, (4) the development of a new line of research on the interplay between the academic Hadewijch study on the one hand, and the reception of Hadewijch in literary and artistics contexts on the other.

• Veerle Fraeters
• Project: 2013 – 2016
• Funding: BOF/KP 2013
• Publications: Veerle Fraeters and David Vermeiren, 'Hadewijch Bibliography 1987-2014', in Patricia Dailey and Veerle Fraeters, A Companion to Hadewijch, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming)

Edition of A Companion to Hadewijch (Brill), co-edited by Patricia Dailey (Columbia University, NY) and Veerle Fraeters, in which the latest developments of both Dutch and Anglo-Saxon Hadewijch studies will, for the first time, be integrated and offered to the scholarly community worldwide. The publication will galvanise international Hadewijch studies.

• Veerle Fraeters
• Project: 2010 – 2016
• Funding: BOF/KP 2010
• Publication: Patricia Dailey and Veerle Fraeters (eds), Companion to Hadewijch, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming)

The current project on Hadewijch is a study of the Poems in Couplets (Rijmbrieven). This will result in a contribution written for Brill’s Companion to Hadewijch. This chapter will provide a general outline of the pedagogical and literary framework of Hadewijch’s sixteen letter-poems.

Project: 2010-2016

• Kris Van Put (voluntary researcher)
• Publication: forthcoming (in Brill's Companion to Hadewijch)

CODL (Circulation of Dutch Literature) aims to set up a framework to the history of the circulation and export of Dutch literature. Using a diachronic approach, the project focuses on eleven key texts from the Middle Ages to the present day in order to look at their circulation history in a broad sense, including translations and adaptations, outside and inside the Dutch-speaking area. The inquiry is guided by questions such as: What are the characteristics of Dutch literary texts that cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious or disciplinary borders, taking into account that the borders themselves are also due to change in the course of time? How do Dutch literary texts cross these borders: how are they translated and/or adapted, who are the mediators (translators, editors, critics, teachers, readers, private and governmental organisations), and what role does adaptation into another genre or medium play in the transfer process? Why do these texts cross the borders? Which poetical, biographical, societal, ideological factors influence the transfer? How and why do canons of Dutch literature differ in different areas, periods and social groups?

• Project: 2012-15
• Veerle Fraeters, head of the team studying ‘Hadewijch, Liederen’: http://www.codl.nl/strofische-gedichten/
• Project management: the Centre for Reception Studies (CERES) of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels (HUB), the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in cooperation with COMENIUS (Association for Dutch Studies in Central Europe) and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING) in The Hague
• Funded by: NWO
• Publications:
  • 'Hadewijch, Liederen', in Database Circulation of Dutch Literature: http://database.codl.nl/#derivatives/results
  • Veerle Fraeters, ‘From Middle Dutch Writer to French Movie Character. The Presence of Hadewijch in France from the Perspective of the film Hadewijch (2009)’, in Elke Brems, Ton van Kalmthout en Orsi Réthelyi, Circulation of Dutch Literature, Leuven University Press, 2016 (forthcoming).

Critical edition of the Songs (Liederen) by Hadewijch, accompanied by four CD's containing all 45 songs. 

• Project: -2009
• Veerle Fraeters and Frank Willaert (University of Antwerp)
• Publication: Veerle Fraeters and Frank Willaert (eds), Hadewijch - Liederen. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij, 2009.