Projects
The portrayal of the Ottomans in the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands of the Habsburgs (seventeenth and eighteenth century): printed materials, opinions and imaging of the Ottomans KU Leuven
The theme of the Ottomans was in the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands a common topic in media such as celebrations, printed matter, sermons, etc. A study on media and communications in the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands on the Ottomans can be enlightening for how the imagery proceeded for the identification processes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exposing one’s own culture by mirroring it to other cultures. The analysis of ...
Marriage Politics. Transregional Families in the Spanish Habsburg Netherlands, ca. 1650-1700 KU Leuven
Throughout the early modern period, the Spanish Habsburg crown needed the support of local elites to maintain a grip on the government of its polycentric empire, a global patchwork of territories governed through a network of viceroys and governors, military leaders, and hundreds of councils. A Hispano-Flemish world of political, cultural and economic exchanges shaped the lives of the peoples of both the Iberian Peninsula and the Low ...
Jesuit Musical Inheritance in the Spanish Netherlands and United Provinces (1540–1648) KU Leuven
The Counter Reformation caused the most dramatic musical shift the Catholic Church had seen in centuries. One of the key actors in this change were the Jesuits. Their expansion resulted in the dissemination of new music across the globe, reaching China, the Philippines and Mexico. But despite substantive research on Jesuit music elsewhere, we know little about their musical legacy in the Low Countries. Understanding this facet of Jesuit music ...
God, the devil, and the nun. Visions as mystical experiences among religious women in contemplative conventual orders in Spain and the Spanish Netherlands (1660-1700) KU Leuven
In the decades after 1560, female conventuals in Catholic Europe experienced a sharp increase in the number of visions with a divine or diabolic content. The increase was partly due to renewed attention to medieval mysticism and to new contemplative methods. In the eyes of many theologians, visions soon became an exclusive and dangerous feature of female spirituality. Some of them led to exorcism or even accusations of witchcraft. However, ...
God, the devil, and the nun. Visions as mystical experiences among religious women in contemplative conventual orders in Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, 1560-1700 KU Leuven
In the decades after 1560, female conventuals in Catholic Europe
experienced a sharp increase in the number of visions with a divine
or diabolic content. The increase was partly due to renewed attention
to medieval mysticism and to new contemplative methods. In the
eyes of many theologians, visions soon became an exclusive and
dangerous feature of female spirituality. Some of them led to
exorcism or even ...
The Triumph of Kermis in the Spanish and the Austrian Netherlands KU Leuven
Agents of change. Visual arts, altar and church architecture and religious actors in the Spanish Netherlands in the period 1598-ca. 1656. Ghent University
No world without the stars. Prophecy and society in the Spanish- Habsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt(1560s-1640s) KU Leuven
This project will study the interaction of astrology with politics and religion in the Habsburg Netherlands (1560s-1640s). Special attention will be paid to the cross-fertilization of Dutch astrological cultures and traditions with those of neighboring territories and to the general position of astrology within the framework of the Dutch Revolt (1566-1648). The project will analyze prognostic works, produced within the cities of Antwerp, ...