Patricia Stoop academic interim staff postdoc 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: …

Kristof Smeyers unpaid staff Research Kristof Smeyers Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute The political weight of carrying Christ's wounds. Stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950. 01/10/2016 - 30/09/2020 Abstract Rather than analyzing medical and theological expert discourses and single cas…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Stigmatics Research on stigmatics of the nineteenth and early twentieth century can provide new insights on lived religion, celebrity culture and the cult of living saints, political Catholicisms, and the tensions and collaborations betw…

Luc Duerloo emeritus occasional assignment Publications Luc Duerloo Introducción Source La imagen de las reinas Habsburgo españolas y su construcción durante el siglo XVII / Llorente, Mercedes [edit.]; Blanco Mozo, Juan Luis [edit.]-p. 9-13 Author(s) Luc Duerloo Citation link Portolans: portals t…

Tine Van Osselaer associate research professor Research Tine Van Osselaer Research team Research centre Ruusbroec Institute Expertise Tine iVan Osselaer s associate professor in the history of spirituality, devotion and mysticism at the Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp. In the last y…

Wilfried Decoo emeritus occasional assignment Publications Wilfried Decoo Algemene handleiding En avant 5 & 6 Source Antwerpen, Uitgeverij Zwijsen, 2024,60 p. Author(s) Wilfried Decoo, Hugo Hannaert, Ellen Decoo Citation link Marianne meets the Mormons: representations of Mormonism in nineteenth-cen…

Tine Van Osselaer associate research 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 In…

Leonardo Rossi senior researcher Publications Leonardo Rossi 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.…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Primary Sources Nineteenth and twentieth century primary sources Although the collection of primary sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be less impressive than the other special …

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Hand Press Books Early printed books Most books in our collection of early printed books are on Christian morality and private devotion. Even more so than our manuscripts and incunabula, they represent the specific research focus of the …

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Non Written Output search menu search content Marian character The Marian character of the City of Antwerp Disclosing facade sculptures via mobile digital media The VZW Kruis en Beeld aims to inventory, conserve, restore and disclose the massive collection of Marian (and other saints) statues, which…

Lowie Vercruysse doctoral scholarship holder Research Lowie Vercruysse Research team Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy (AXIS) Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES) Exploiting innovative chemical imaging techniques to understand the enigmatic creative process and studio practice in Rubens'…

Arts & Media Archaeology search menu search content Lies, Exaggeration and Myths in Historiography 21 November 2022 - Tine Van Osselaer Location: S.S209 ARIA attic, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp Time: 14h30-17h, unless communicated otherwise Target audience: junior academic and artistic rese…

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 Miracles The tradition of collecting cultic miracle stories stretches from Augustine’s miracles of Saint Stephen to those of Our Lady of Czestochowa today. During the late medieval and early modern period, parish churches and guilds in…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Scope The magic lantern The magic lantern was one of the first visual mass media. It was used for visual communication in education, religion and politics, but also in science and art. Scientists and entertainers, teachers and priests, political movements and organ…

Scientific talent scores three prestigious grants Young UAntwerp researchers receive starting grants from the European Research Council Three young scientists from the University of Antwerp will receive ‘starting grants’ from the European Research Council. These are amongst the most prestigious …

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Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Publications Our most important contributions to the knowledge of the history of spirituality in the Low Countries The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 (2020) In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic eme…

Academic calendar Your study planning tool The academic year is divided into two semesters with thirteen weeks of classes followed by an examination periode. Check the academic calendar to find out when there are activities, public holidays, exam periods, graduation ceremonies and breaks. Academic y…

Research centre Ruusbroec Institute search menu search content Research tools Profit from our research The Ruusbroec Institute Research tools are a platform for a.o.: links to databases developed by the Ruusbroec Institute additions to publications by members of the Ruusbroec Institute unpublished r…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content The Avant-Garde and the Jews The Avant-Garde and the Jews International conference 2-4 February 2015 University of Antwerp, Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen In the last decade, a number of studies in various disciplines have addresse…

European Research Council grants (ERC) The European Research Council provides funding for frontier science, irrespective of thematic priorities and within all disciplines. The sole evaluation criterion for proposals is scientific excellence. The funding of the ERC is highly prestigious and is open f…