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Frivolity in church. A study of the cultural transfer of French air de cour melodies into sacred songbooks in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. University of Antwerp
IIn the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries, religious songs were used for propaganda purposes by a Catholic Church that was trying to regain by all means the ground lost after the Council of Trent. Authors of seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands sacred songbooks wrote very often religious texts on existing popular profane songs, following the principle of 'contrafacture', i.e. writing new texts to existing, mainly profane tunes. It ...
Sabbatical Gerard Claassens: A new critical edition of Seghelijn van Jherusalem KU Leuven
The production of a critical edition of the 14th century, originally Middle Dutch chivalric novel Seghelijn van Jherusalem. This text, which has about 12,000 verses, has survived in a manuscript, an incunabula and some 16th-century editions. Because the tradition is problematic (and flawed), the text has to be reconstructed from the various text carriers. This is a time consuming work best done over a longer period of continuous activity and ...
BOF Sabbatical 2022-2023 - Veerle Fraeters. University of Antwerp
The first part of my sabbatical leave will be devoted to finalizing, in close collaboration with co-editor Patricia Dailey (Columbia University NY), the book project A Companion to Hadewijch (Leiden: Brill). To this end, I've been invited as Visiting Scholar at the Comparative Literature Department of Columbia University NY in the Spring of 2022. The volume integrates my previous and current research on the oeuvre of the Middle Dutch mystic ...
BOF Expatriation allowance VLIR Scientific Chair Breughel 2014. University of Antwerp
Grad course - Nuns' Literacies in Medieval EuropeWomen religious – whether they belonged to traditional monastic orders, or to semi-religious institutions like sister houses, beguinages, etcetera – were very important and active players in literary field of the Middle Ages. A great many codices were written for and/or used in women's monasteries, and many female religious were involved in writing, translating, collecting, and performing texts – ...
Language perception and language use in the county of Flanders: the sociolinguistic impact of 1302. KU Leuven
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Leuven, Dutch Literature, Brussels Campus
Until now, the perception and use of French and Dutch in the medieval county of Flanders has never been submitted to a systematic analysis. The only article and the series of side remarks on medieval language perception always concern literary texts written in Dutch or in French, whereas a nuanced and complete image requires the presence of other text genres as well. Moreover, the contemporary Latin texts - which possibly contain valuable ...
Mystical Heritage and Modern Identities. Reception and Appropriation of the Medieval 'Flemish' Mystic Hadewijch in Interwar Belgium. University of Antwerp
This project offers an in-depth study of the polymorphic reception of the Middle Dutch or 'Flemish' mystical author Hadewijch (ca. 1240) within the intellectual field and the wider socio-cultural field in Interwar Flanders (including Brussels), a society characterized by acute 'pillarization'. The enthusiast appropriation of the hitherto hardly known oeuvre of Hadewijch by a remarkably broad range of intellectuals belonging to very different ...
Fixed forms. The material transmission of the strophic poems by Jacob van Maerlant. University of Antwerp
Fixed forms. The material transmission of the strophic poems by Jacob van Maerlant In the middle ages the material transmission of texts depended completely on the copying by hand of manuscripts (copies of copies). This gave the texts a fluid character. In this project we want to research how the use of fixed forms influenced the stability of the text transmission. We focus on all text witnesses of the ten strophic poems by the Flemish poet ...
Silent voices: A Digital Study of the Herne Charterhouse as a Textual Community (ca. 1350-1400). University of Antwerp
The Carthusian monastery of Herne has had a profound impact on the cultural history of the Low Countries, as a true hotspot in the production, negotiation and dissemination of vernacular literature for lay audiences, in a time where most written texts were still in Latin. In a short time span (ca. 1350-1400), the members of the community collectively copied a fantastic collection of 25+ Middle Dutch and Latin manuscripts, many of which contain ...
Histoire croisée and cross fertilisation between Belgium and Great-Britain: Laurence Binyon, Olivier Destrée, their networks and periodicals, 1890-1930 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marysa Demoor, Hans Vandevoorde
Ghent University, Language and literature
Research into the cultural exchanges between Belgian culture and that of the neighbouring countries at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century has so far mainly focused on the relations between artists and authors with their colleagues in the Netherlands and France (Hoozee, Frickx, Quaghebeur). More recently more attention has been paid to the way in which British art and literature influenced the Belgian and Dutch cultural ...