Projects
The theme of deification in the Middle Dutch works of the understudied authors in Groenendaal: Jan van Leeuwen, Willem Jordaens and Godfried Wevel. Was Groenendaal a 'textual community' or an 'authorial community of practice'? University of Antwerp
The Theme of Deification in the Middle Dutch Works of the Groenendaal Authors: Jan van Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Willem Jordaens and Godfried Wevel. Was Groenendaal a 'Textual Community' or an 'Authorial Community of Practice'? University of Antwerp
The Theme of Deification in the Middle Dutch Works of the Groenendaal Authors: Jan van Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Willem Jordaens and Godfried Wevel. Was Groenendaal a 'Textual Community' or an 'Authorial Community of Practice'? KU Leuven
In the 14th century, the community of Groenendaal, in the Sonian Forest near Brussels, was home not only to the much-studied mystical author Jan van Ruusbroec, but also to three understudied Middle Dutch mystical writers: Jan van Leeuwen, Willem Jordaens, and Godfried Wevel. It is thus a unique hotspot of Middle Dutch mystical literature. Surprisingly, however, the (inter)relationships between these authors’ texts have never been thoroughly ...
Rerouting the 'ridderroman'. Adaptation Strategies in the Poetics of the 14th-Century Middle Dutch Ridderroman Ghent University
The 14th-century is seen as a highlight for secular literature in large areas of Western Europe. In contrast, 14th-century Middle Dutch secular literature has been largely underexposed. Its main exponent, the verse romance or ridderroman, has consistently been depreciated by 19th- and 20th-century literary historians as derivative, a mixture of older romance motifs amplified into sometimes grotesque proportions: 'epic in decay'. Yet, this ...
Apocalyps and eschatology in the works of the 14th-century Middle Dutch authors Jan van Boendale, Lodewijk van Velthem and Jan van Leeuwen Ghent University
The Apocalyptic-eschatological views were subjects to change soon after the writing of the Apocalys. Alternative interprestations cna be discerned at certain points in time, especially in the Western European Middle Ages. The evolution of the Apocalyptic-eschatological ideas in the work of the 14th-century Middle Dutch authors Velthem, Boendale en Van Leeuwen will be the focus of the research project.
They have travelled farther and more extensively in spirit and personally": the position of the late Middle Dutch travel narrative Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele (ca. 1490) in medieval etnography. University of Antwerp
Vanden Twaelf dogheden: an exemplary study of the functions, distributuin and impact of Middle Dutch mustical writing Ghent University
the proposed project wants to examine the function, distribution and carry-over of a 14th-century mustical treatise, vanden twaelf dogheden, and in broader sense the development and impact of medieval and early modern spiritual literature.
Literary rebels in Ghent from the middle ages until the present Ghent University
Since the Middle Ages until today literary works have contributed to the image of Ghent as a city of rebels. Literature also criticizes and transforms this image. The present project disseminates recent research into those literary rebels. It chooses the format of an illustrated book for a broad audience, city walks and a podcast series. The audience will be acquainted with a broadened understanding of literature, in which performance (e.g., ...
views on authorship in Dutch literary histories (from c. 1850 onwards) Ghent University
research on the views of authorship which can be deducted from manuscripts containing the collected works of Hadewijch, Jan van Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen and Willem van Hildegaersberch, and confrontation of those views with the implicit and expliciet ones on those particular medieval authors in the major Dutch literary histories (c. 1850 up to now).