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Leiden Medievalists Blog, 2020
In: Hofman R.H.F., Caspers C.M.A., Nissen P., van Dijk M., Oosterman J. (Eds.) Inwardness, Individualization, and Religious Agency in the Late Medieval Low Countries. Studies in the Devotio Moderna and its Contexts. Medieval Church Studies no. 43 Turnhout: Brepols. 181-221., 2020
in S. Boodts, J. Leemans, B. Meijns (eds.), Shaping Authority. How Did a Person Become an Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016, p. 389-438
A Vernacular Commentary on the Spieghel der volcomenheit'. Reading, Writing, and the Transmission... more A Vernacular Commentary on the Spieghel der volcomenheit'. Reading, Writing, and the Transmission of Knowledge, in: Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts. Religion, Learning, and Literature in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550), edited by Marieke Abram, Anna Dlabacova, Ingrid Falque, Giacomo Signore, with a foreword by Geert Warnar and Loris Sturlese (Roma, 2015: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura) pp. 229-252.
Books by Anna Dlabačová
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Eu... more This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue.
Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
Editors: Anna Dlabačová, Andrea van Leerdam, and John J. Thompson
This book seeks to provide the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide into the complex r... more This book seeks to provide the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide into the complex relationship between textual production in print, technical and human faults and more or less successful attempts at emendation in the print shop. The 24 carefully selected contributors present new evidence on what we can learn from misprints in relation to publishers' practices, printing and pre-publication procedures, and editorial strategies between 1450 and 1650. They focus on texts, images and the layout of incunabula, sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century books issued throughout Europe, stretching from the output of humanist printers to wide-ranging vernacular publications.
The Modern Devotion was one of the most influential religious initiatives in the late medieval Lo... more The Modern Devotion was one of the most influential religious initiatives in the late medieval Low Countries. It fundamentally changed the spiritual landscape through its call for an interiorized religious experience, the foundation of numerous (semi-)religious communities, and the production of literature and art focused on the imitation of Christ. Its impact was not confined to the Netherlands: at its peak communities that adhered to one of the three mutually distinct ‘branches’ of the Modern Devotion could be found in current-day Belgium, Germany, Northern France, Switzerland, and Poland.
This Dutch language volume, aimed at a wider audience than a strictly scholarly one, brings together contributions by no less than forty-six specialists in several fields (medieval history, literature, art history, book history, theology, philosophy, church history etc.) and (spiritual) professionals from the Low Countries, Belgium, Germany, and the United States. In one hundred short articles the authors discuss historical developments, important actors, prominent authors, and paint a broad picture of various aspects of spirituality and culture within the movement. There is ample attention for the historical setting within which the Modern Devotion came into-being, its sources of inspiration, but also parallel-movements in the late medieval period and the historical context within which the Modern Devotion kept developing until the sixteenth century, and even until today. Several chapters are devoted to the reception of the movement (and its literature) from the early modern period up to the twentieth century.
The late Middle Ages provide us with a fascinating religious landscape. The quest for new religio... more The late Middle Ages provide us with a fascinating religious landscape. The quest for new religious ideals and intense spirituality can be observed in movements such as the Modern Devotion and the Franciscan Observance, marking the late fourteenth and fifteenth century with new institutional dynamics and the formation of a variety of religious communities. The dissemination of these new religious ideas and ideals profited from the advent of the printing press. It is these subjects that Koen Goudriaan, professor of Medieval History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has studied for decades. This volume, edited by Anna Dlabačová and Ad Tervoort, presents a collection of eleven of his best essays. It focuses on three themes: the institutional parameters of late medieval religious movements, the cult of remembrance, and the interaction between religious movements and the early printing press. Together, these essays provide a representative sample of Goudriaan's substantial contribution to scholarship on late medieval history.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Geert Warnar and Loris Sturlese ................................ v... more Table of Contents
Foreword by Geert Warnar and Loris Sturlese ................................ vii
Myrtha de Meo-Ehlert
Über den Tod von St. Paul. Die verschiedenen
mittelhochdeutschen Versionen eines ps.-dionysischen Briefes................ 1
Luciano Micali
Comment faut-il connaître ? Règle, modèles et poursuite
de la bonne connaissance dans la théologie de la fin du Moyen Âge....... 33
Claudia Lingscheid
The Beguines, Heresy and Society in the Neunfelsenbuch .................... 49
Yves van Damme
«Noch soe rade ick dij, dattu swijchst!». Vom Sprechen und Schweigen im Dialog von Meister Eckhart und dem Laien................................... 67
DaniëLLe Prochowski
Gerson’s Legacy in Middle Dutch Religious Literature .......................... 101
Giacomo Signore
Late Medieval Miscellanies between Order and Randomness.
The Case of Albertus Löffler .................................................................. 141
Monika Studer
Der Ritter in der Kapelle. Edition und Untersuchung bisher
unbekannter oberdeutscher Prosafassungen ............................................ 175
Joni de MoL
Conversing with God. The Role of Vision and the Auditory Perception of God in the Writings of Alijt Bake....................................................... 203

Marieke Abram and Anna Dlabacová
A Vernacular Commentary on the spieghel der volcomenheit.
Reading, Writing, and the Transmission of Knowledge.......................... 229
![Research paper thumbnail of Literatuur en observantie. De Spieghel der volcomenheit van Hendrik Herp en de dynamiek van laatmiddeleeuwse tekstverspreiding [Literature and Observance. The Mirror of Perfection by Hendrik Herp and the Dynamics of Late Medieval Textual Transmission], with a summary in English](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/47556377/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Rond het midden van de vijftiende eeuw schreef de minderbroeder Hendrik Herp een mystiek meesterw... more Rond het midden van de vijftiende eeuw schreef de minderbroeder Hendrik Herp een mystiek meesterwerk: de Spieghel der volcomenheit. Het was het enige werk dat deze bestuurlijke en spirituele leider van de franciscaanse observantiebeweging in de volkstaal zou schrijven. De taal stond een snelle verspreiding van de tekst niet in de weg. Herps Spieghel werd een ongekend internationaal succes. In Literatuur en observantie beschrijft Anna Dlabacová dit succes, dat zich afspeelt tegen de achtergrond van een brede religieuze vernieuwing in middeleeuws Europa. De lezer maakt kennis met een wereld waarin het strenge observantie-ideaal hand in hand ging met de verspreiding van nieuwe teksten onder religieuzen en leken. Persoonlijke contacten en netwerken van kloosters, drukkers en leken zorgden ervoor dat de verspreiding van literatuur een nieuwe impuls kreeg. Het verhaal van Herps Spieghel weerspiegelt deze nieuwe dynamiek.
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals by Anna Dlabačová
The Medieval Low Countries, 2018
In two little-studied Middle Dutch texts, the authors present their readers with the distaff and ... more In two little-studied Middle Dutch texts, the authors present their readers with the distaff and the activities of spinning and cloth-making as a metaphor for Christ’s Passion, and, as such, as a meditative object and activity. These texts represent the ultimate conjunction of ora et labora, but their transmission suggests that the meditative practice was not limited to religious communities. This article explores these texts in their broader cultural and religious context as tools for meditation and expressions of (religious) power relations between men and women in the transitional age between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
![Research paper thumbnail of [Open access] "Religious Practice and Experimental Book Production: Text and Image in an Alternative Layman’s “Book of Hours” in Print and Manuscript," Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9:2 (Summer 2017) DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2017.9.2.2](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/54519562/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2017
The Devote ghetiden vanden leven ende passie Jhesu Christi (Devout Hours on the Life and Passion ... more The Devote ghetiden vanden leven ende passie Jhesu Christi (Devout Hours on the Life and Passion of Jesus Christ) provides an intriguing case study of text and image relationships in the transitional age between manuscript and print. The 1483 and 1484/5 editions of the Devote ghetiden were an innovative commercial endeavor by the prolific printer Gerard Leeu. These editions of a new vernacular religious text, flexible in use and primarily aimed at laymen, combined with no less than eighty-four full-page illustrations, offered the lay reader an unprecedented level of visual material for private devotion located in the same object as the text. Changes in both composition and page layout, which occurred when text and image were refashioned in a different medium, altered the reader’s meditative experience, reflecting not only the multiform character and individuation of religious practice on the eve of the Reformation but also the influence of printed books on late medieval textual and visual culture as a whole.
When the Antwerp printer Roland van den Dorpe died at the
turn of the fifteenth century, his wido... more When the Antwerp printer Roland van den Dorpe died at the
turn of the fifteenth century, his widow, whose name is hidden
in the shadows of history, took over the business her husband set up approximately five years earlier, in 1496. Although the continuation of a printing shop or a bookseller’s business by the wife of the deceased owner would become common practice in the Low Countries in the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century, the late medieval roots of this practice in the early modern printing and publishing industry have not yet been examined. Roland van den Dorpe’s widow was – as far as we know – the first woman in the Low Countries to take on the task of running a printing shop. This article discusses her strategies in acquiring suitable copy for her business and her connections to the Franciscan Observants within the context of late medieval Antwerp.
Members of the Franciscan Observance, introduced in the Low Countries in the 1440s, seem to have ... more Members of the Franciscan Observance, introduced in the Low Countries in the 1440s, seem to have become actively involved in the production and circulation of religious literature, both in the vernacular and in Latin, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although the observance was a factor of importance in several religious orders at that time, this issue focuses on the Franciscan order. The aim is to explore several aspects of the involvement of the Observant branch of this order in the production and dissemination of religious literature in the Low Countries, in the period before, during, and after the Reformation.
The intrinsic relationship between Tauler sermons and the comprehensive mystical guide Spieghel d... more The intrinsic relationship between Tauler sermons and the comprehensive mystical guide Spieghel der volcomenheit, written between approximately 1455 and 1460 by the observant Franciscan friar Hendrik Herp, was recognized by readers and compilers of manuscripts. Texts by Tauler and Herp were combined in two Middle Dutch manuscripts. In the first manuscript, Heverlee, Norbertijnerabdij Park: 8 (c. 1460-1500), Tauler plays a dominant role and is considered the authority, while a selection from Herp is neatly incorporated within a corpus of fourteenth-century texts by Tauler and other writers related to the Gottesfreunde literature. In the second manuscript, Ghent, University Library: 1351 (c. 1550-1575), the roles are reversed: Herp no longer maintains his reputation among 14th-century (and older) mystics and their literature, and Tauler’s role is also significantly diminished. Instead, a major role is now reserved for another group of mendicant preachers, this time from Herp’s order: the observant Franciscans. The study of these two Tauler-Herp manuscripts shows that the concomitant transmission of texts by Tauler and Herp was determined by a number of factors: the perceived connection between the two authors, the milieu in which a manuscript was written, the changes within the transmission of their texts (for example the editing and translating activities carried out by the Cologne Carthusians) and obviously other historical circumstances, such as the rise of the (Dutch) observant Franciscans as important figures within the Counter-Reformation alongside the Carthusians.
Ons Geestelijk Erf, 2011
The 16th-century manuscript Heeswijk, AB (Abbey of Berne): 7, contains four mystical texts, three... more The 16th-century manuscript Heeswijk, AB (Abbey of Berne): 7, contains four mystical texts, three of which contain larger or smaller parts of the treatise Spieghel der volcomenheit, written by the Dutch mystic Hendrik Herp between ca. 1455 and 1460. Herp was an important member of the religious movement of the Franciscan Observance. This article focuses on the role of the Spieghel within the manuscript, while also gathering other clues as to a possible historical context in which the treatises and the manuscript as a whole could have been conceived, read and used. Firstly, the text encompassing the most substantial parts of Herp’s extensive mystical handbook is examined: the Profytelycke ende scoen pelgrimagie (‘Profitable and fair pilgrimage’), in which the mystical ascent is portrayed as a journey of a pilgrim along a number of inns. Subsequently the view is broadened to the other treatises in the manuscript. By analyzing the texts, the manuscript can eventually be placed in a milieu in which Herp’s work was still being read, studied and (re)used in new texts between 1500 and 1550.
Among other facts, the analysis shows that the texts largely concentrate on Herp’s exercise of toegeesten, a form of aspiratory prayer. Herp’s warnings against a too intense spiritual life are adopted and further elaborated. Furthermore the Profytelycke pelgrimagie shows textual correspondence with the so called Opdrachtbrief (‘Letter of dedication’), written as an introduction to the Evangelische Peerle (‘Evangelical Pearl’). The Peerle was published by the Cologne Carthusians (first edition 1535). Possibly written by the Cologne Carthusian Gerard Kalckbrenner, the introductory letter expresses a strong ‘pilgrim spirituality’: the author is portrayed as an enlightened pilgrim and the readers are addressed as fellow pilgrims. As there is no mention of such a strongly pilgrim oriented spirituality in the rest of the Evangelische Peerle, it is not unlikely that the dedicational letter was inspired by the Profytelycke pelgrimagie. One of the other texts in the Heeswijk-manuscript turns out to be the so called Corte Oeffeninghe (‘Short exercise’), a from 1555 onwards frequently printed treatise, which was also linked to the circles around the author of the Evangelische Peerle. Thus the Profytelycke pelgrimagie, and the manuscript Heeswijk, AB: 7 as a whole, can be placed within a closely knit network of the Cologne Carthusians and Dutch devotional women, in particular the Canonesses Regular of St. Agnes, Arnhem. The sisters of this convent showed a great (renewed) interest in mysticism and the author of the Peerle possibly originated from their circles.
The texts in the Heeswijk-manuscript are a first indication of the influence of Herp’s Spieghel on 16th-century mysticism. This mysticism seems not to be a sole ‘merging of 14th-century flemish and rhinelandish mysticism with 16th-century renewal’. The 15th-century mysticism must have been a strong influence as well: in this intervening century the 14th-century mysticism was already brought together and adapted by the Franciscan observant Hendrik Herp and his successors.
Queeste. Tijdschrift over middeleeuwse letterkunde, 2008
Between 1455 and 1460 the Dutch mystic Hendrik Herp (c. 1410-1477) wrote a mystical handbook for ... more Between 1455 and 1460 the Dutch mystic Hendrik Herp (c. 1410-1477) wrote a mystical handbook for a spiritual daughter: the Spieghel der volcomenheit. Up to 1450 Herp had been a member of the Devotio Moderna, fulfilling several functions in Delft and
Gouda. In 1450 he decided to join the newly formed monastic reform-movement of the Franciscan Observance. As early as 1454 he became the guardian of the Observant House in Mechelen. Here, close to the Burgundian court, Herp started working on
the Spieghel. Despite the widespread popularity of the Spieghel, in manuscript, print and numerous translations, earlier studies of Herp and his Spieghel concentrated on Herp’s background in the Devotio Moderna and his presumed non-original recycling
of thoughts and ideas of fourteenth-century mystics in the Spieghel. This article reexamines the position of both Herp and his work. By concentrating on his activities within the Franciscan Observance and his connections with the Burgundian court,
and focusing on the role of spiritual literature in the Observance, Herp and the Spieghel are situated in the broader context of fifteenth-century mysticism and mystical literature.
Ons Geestelijk Erf, 2008
From the last quarter of the fifteenth century onward, a large number of Middle Dutch texts conta... more From the last quarter of the fifteenth century onward, a large number of Middle Dutch texts containing the life of Christ were printed and dispersed in the Netherlands. In a recent study, an exploration of the previously not widely studied ‘Lives of Jesus’, Koen Goudriaan pointed out a remarkable discontinuity between the circulation of these texts in manuscript and print. Furthermore, the corpus of ‘Lives’ could be divided into two basic textual forms: an ‘epical’ type and a type in which the content of the text is arranged according to liturgical ‘hours’ or ‘points’. Goudriaan suggested that the discontinuity between manuscript and print, and the division in epical and liturgical styles, is related to the intended and actual readership of these texts. This contribution contains a case-study on three different Middle Dutch ‘Lives’ that contain a more or less complete version of the life of Christ: the Tractaet vanden leven ons Heren Jesu Christi, Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi and Dat leven ons liefs heren Jhesu Christi. Concentrating on the printing history, the previous history of the texts and the actual readership of these three ‘Lives’, we can conclude that the discontinuity and the division in two types of texts within the corpus of ‘Lives of Jesus’ are not so much related to the reading public (religious people or laity), but rather to the different and various functions each one of the texts fulfilled within late medieval religious life.
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Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
Editors: Anna Dlabačová, Andrea van Leerdam, and John J. Thompson
This Dutch language volume, aimed at a wider audience than a strictly scholarly one, brings together contributions by no less than forty-six specialists in several fields (medieval history, literature, art history, book history, theology, philosophy, church history etc.) and (spiritual) professionals from the Low Countries, Belgium, Germany, and the United States. In one hundred short articles the authors discuss historical developments, important actors, prominent authors, and paint a broad picture of various aspects of spirituality and culture within the movement. There is ample attention for the historical setting within which the Modern Devotion came into-being, its sources of inspiration, but also parallel-movements in the late medieval period and the historical context within which the Modern Devotion kept developing until the sixteenth century, and even until today. Several chapters are devoted to the reception of the movement (and its literature) from the early modern period up to the twentieth century.
Foreword by Geert Warnar and Loris Sturlese ................................ vii
Myrtha de Meo-Ehlert
Über den Tod von St. Paul. Die verschiedenen
mittelhochdeutschen Versionen eines ps.-dionysischen Briefes................ 1
Luciano Micali
Comment faut-il connaître ? Règle, modèles et poursuite
de la bonne connaissance dans la théologie de la fin du Moyen Âge....... 33
Claudia Lingscheid
The Beguines, Heresy and Society in the Neunfelsenbuch .................... 49
Yves van Damme
«Noch soe rade ick dij, dattu swijchst!». Vom Sprechen und Schweigen im Dialog von Meister Eckhart und dem Laien................................... 67
DaniëLLe Prochowski
Gerson’s Legacy in Middle Dutch Religious Literature .......................... 101
Giacomo Signore
Late Medieval Miscellanies between Order and Randomness.
The Case of Albertus Löffler .................................................................. 141
Monika Studer
Der Ritter in der Kapelle. Edition und Untersuchung bisher
unbekannter oberdeutscher Prosafassungen ............................................ 175
Joni de MoL
Conversing with God. The Role of Vision and the Auditory Perception of God in the Writings of Alijt Bake....................................................... 203

Marieke Abram and Anna Dlabacová
A Vernacular Commentary on the spieghel der volcomenheit.
Reading, Writing, and the Transmission of Knowledge.......................... 229
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals by Anna Dlabačová
turn of the fifteenth century, his widow, whose name is hidden
in the shadows of history, took over the business her husband set up approximately five years earlier, in 1496. Although the continuation of a printing shop or a bookseller’s business by the wife of the deceased owner would become common practice in the Low Countries in the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century, the late medieval roots of this practice in the early modern printing and publishing industry have not yet been examined. Roland van den Dorpe’s widow was – as far as we know – the first woman in the Low Countries to take on the task of running a printing shop. This article discusses her strategies in acquiring suitable copy for her business and her connections to the Franciscan Observants within the context of late medieval Antwerp.
Among other facts, the analysis shows that the texts largely concentrate on Herp’s exercise of toegeesten, a form of aspiratory prayer. Herp’s warnings against a too intense spiritual life are adopted and further elaborated. Furthermore the Profytelycke pelgrimagie shows textual correspondence with the so called Opdrachtbrief (‘Letter of dedication’), written as an introduction to the Evangelische Peerle (‘Evangelical Pearl’). The Peerle was published by the Cologne Carthusians (first edition 1535). Possibly written by the Cologne Carthusian Gerard Kalckbrenner, the introductory letter expresses a strong ‘pilgrim spirituality’: the author is portrayed as an enlightened pilgrim and the readers are addressed as fellow pilgrims. As there is no mention of such a strongly pilgrim oriented spirituality in the rest of the Evangelische Peerle, it is not unlikely that the dedicational letter was inspired by the Profytelycke pelgrimagie. One of the other texts in the Heeswijk-manuscript turns out to be the so called Corte Oeffeninghe (‘Short exercise’), a from 1555 onwards frequently printed treatise, which was also linked to the circles around the author of the Evangelische Peerle. Thus the Profytelycke pelgrimagie, and the manuscript Heeswijk, AB: 7 as a whole, can be placed within a closely knit network of the Cologne Carthusians and Dutch devotional women, in particular the Canonesses Regular of St. Agnes, Arnhem. The sisters of this convent showed a great (renewed) interest in mysticism and the author of the Peerle possibly originated from their circles.
The texts in the Heeswijk-manuscript are a first indication of the influence of Herp’s Spieghel on 16th-century mysticism. This mysticism seems not to be a sole ‘merging of 14th-century flemish and rhinelandish mysticism with 16th-century renewal’. The 15th-century mysticism must have been a strong influence as well: in this intervening century the 14th-century mysticism was already brought together and adapted by the Franciscan observant Hendrik Herp and his successors.
Gouda. In 1450 he decided to join the newly formed monastic reform-movement of the Franciscan Observance. As early as 1454 he became the guardian of the Observant House in Mechelen. Here, close to the Burgundian court, Herp started working on
the Spieghel. Despite the widespread popularity of the Spieghel, in manuscript, print and numerous translations, earlier studies of Herp and his Spieghel concentrated on Herp’s background in the Devotio Moderna and his presumed non-original recycling
of thoughts and ideas of fourteenth-century mystics in the Spieghel. This article reexamines the position of both Herp and his work. By concentrating on his activities within the Franciscan Observance and his connections with the Burgundian court,
and focusing on the role of spiritual literature in the Observance, Herp and the Spieghel are situated in the broader context of fifteenth-century mysticism and mystical literature.
Catalogues by Anna Dlabačová
Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
Editors: Anna Dlabačová, Andrea van Leerdam, and John J. Thompson
This Dutch language volume, aimed at a wider audience than a strictly scholarly one, brings together contributions by no less than forty-six specialists in several fields (medieval history, literature, art history, book history, theology, philosophy, church history etc.) and (spiritual) professionals from the Low Countries, Belgium, Germany, and the United States. In one hundred short articles the authors discuss historical developments, important actors, prominent authors, and paint a broad picture of various aspects of spirituality and culture within the movement. There is ample attention for the historical setting within which the Modern Devotion came into-being, its sources of inspiration, but also parallel-movements in the late medieval period and the historical context within which the Modern Devotion kept developing until the sixteenth century, and even until today. Several chapters are devoted to the reception of the movement (and its literature) from the early modern period up to the twentieth century.
Foreword by Geert Warnar and Loris Sturlese ................................ vii
Myrtha de Meo-Ehlert
Über den Tod von St. Paul. Die verschiedenen
mittelhochdeutschen Versionen eines ps.-dionysischen Briefes................ 1
Luciano Micali
Comment faut-il connaître ? Règle, modèles et poursuite
de la bonne connaissance dans la théologie de la fin du Moyen Âge....... 33
Claudia Lingscheid
The Beguines, Heresy and Society in the Neunfelsenbuch .................... 49
Yves van Damme
«Noch soe rade ick dij, dattu swijchst!». Vom Sprechen und Schweigen im Dialog von Meister Eckhart und dem Laien................................... 67
DaniëLLe Prochowski
Gerson’s Legacy in Middle Dutch Religious Literature .......................... 101
Giacomo Signore
Late Medieval Miscellanies between Order and Randomness.
The Case of Albertus Löffler .................................................................. 141
Monika Studer
Der Ritter in der Kapelle. Edition und Untersuchung bisher
unbekannter oberdeutscher Prosafassungen ............................................ 175
Joni de MoL
Conversing with God. The Role of Vision and the Auditory Perception of God in the Writings of Alijt Bake....................................................... 203

Marieke Abram and Anna Dlabacová
A Vernacular Commentary on the spieghel der volcomenheit.
Reading, Writing, and the Transmission of Knowledge.......................... 229
turn of the fifteenth century, his widow, whose name is hidden
in the shadows of history, took over the business her husband set up approximately five years earlier, in 1496. Although the continuation of a printing shop or a bookseller’s business by the wife of the deceased owner would become common practice in the Low Countries in the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century, the late medieval roots of this practice in the early modern printing and publishing industry have not yet been examined. Roland van den Dorpe’s widow was – as far as we know – the first woman in the Low Countries to take on the task of running a printing shop. This article discusses her strategies in acquiring suitable copy for her business and her connections to the Franciscan Observants within the context of late medieval Antwerp.
Among other facts, the analysis shows that the texts largely concentrate on Herp’s exercise of toegeesten, a form of aspiratory prayer. Herp’s warnings against a too intense spiritual life are adopted and further elaborated. Furthermore the Profytelycke pelgrimagie shows textual correspondence with the so called Opdrachtbrief (‘Letter of dedication’), written as an introduction to the Evangelische Peerle (‘Evangelical Pearl’). The Peerle was published by the Cologne Carthusians (first edition 1535). Possibly written by the Cologne Carthusian Gerard Kalckbrenner, the introductory letter expresses a strong ‘pilgrim spirituality’: the author is portrayed as an enlightened pilgrim and the readers are addressed as fellow pilgrims. As there is no mention of such a strongly pilgrim oriented spirituality in the rest of the Evangelische Peerle, it is not unlikely that the dedicational letter was inspired by the Profytelycke pelgrimagie. One of the other texts in the Heeswijk-manuscript turns out to be the so called Corte Oeffeninghe (‘Short exercise’), a from 1555 onwards frequently printed treatise, which was also linked to the circles around the author of the Evangelische Peerle. Thus the Profytelycke pelgrimagie, and the manuscript Heeswijk, AB: 7 as a whole, can be placed within a closely knit network of the Cologne Carthusians and Dutch devotional women, in particular the Canonesses Regular of St. Agnes, Arnhem. The sisters of this convent showed a great (renewed) interest in mysticism and the author of the Peerle possibly originated from their circles.
The texts in the Heeswijk-manuscript are a first indication of the influence of Herp’s Spieghel on 16th-century mysticism. This mysticism seems not to be a sole ‘merging of 14th-century flemish and rhinelandish mysticism with 16th-century renewal’. The 15th-century mysticism must have been a strong influence as well: in this intervening century the 14th-century mysticism was already brought together and adapted by the Franciscan observant Hendrik Herp and his successors.
Gouda. In 1450 he decided to join the newly formed monastic reform-movement of the Franciscan Observance. As early as 1454 he became the guardian of the Observant House in Mechelen. Here, close to the Burgundian court, Herp started working on
the Spieghel. Despite the widespread popularity of the Spieghel, in manuscript, print and numerous translations, earlier studies of Herp and his Spieghel concentrated on Herp’s background in the Devotio Moderna and his presumed non-original recycling
of thoughts and ideas of fourteenth-century mystics in the Spieghel. This article reexamines the position of both Herp and his work. By concentrating on his activities within the Franciscan Observance and his connections with the Burgundian court,
and focusing on the role of spiritual literature in the Observance, Herp and the Spieghel are situated in the broader context of fifteenth-century mysticism and mystical literature.
Bold and boundless.
De onbegrensde mogelijkheden van de medioneerlandistiek
De medioneerlandistiek kan niet zonder internationaal perspectief: dit biedt zowel uitdagingen als onbegrensde mogelijkheden. Het materiaal dat wij bestuderen kwam niet alleen tot stand als deel van een groter – Europees – cultuurgebied, maar ligt tegenwoordig ook over de hele wereld verspreid in bibliotheken en musea. Alleen al dit gegeven dwingt onderzoekers er toe internationaal te opereren en samenwerking te zoeken. Sinds de bundel onder redactie van Erik Kooper, Medieval Dutch literature in its European context (1994), is er niet meer een soortgelijke publicatie verschenen die de medioneerlandistiek als eenheid internationaal voor het voetlicht brengt.
Dit terwijl ons vakgebied in toenemende mate internationaliseert (vaak wel in de ‘eigen niche’), mede door het belang van internationale samenwerking bij nationale en internationale onderzoeksfinanciering. Bovendien worden binnen het vakgebied in toenemende mate andere grenzen verlegt: denk aan de toenemende interdisciplinariteit en de toepassing en integratie van digitale technieken. Wij willen deze dag in de eerste plaats gebruiken om de rijkdom, vernieuwing en internationale relevantie van ons vakgebied te laten zien. Een tweede doel is een verkenning van de mogelijkheden om ons vakgebied nog beter bij een internationaal publiek zichtbaar te maken. (bijvoorbeeld door middel van een ‘Companion to Middle Dutch Literature’).
18 mai 2017
Atelier du Gemca
Université catholique de Louvain
Margriet Hoogvliet (University of Groningen), « Multilingual and multi sensory devotion in the Religious Household (Flanders, Picardie, 15th-16th century) »
Sarah Joan Moran (Utrecht University), « Inside Beguine Houses in the Counter-Reformation: Visual Culture, Devotion, and Family Ties »
- Vincenzo Paudice, "Étude de la réception de l’art flamand dans la théorie de l’art italienne au XVIIe siècle"
- Anna Dlabacova, "The Use and Function of Woodcuts in Netherlandish Books for the Pre-Reformational Market, c. 1480-1520"
- Mathieu Ferrand, "Théâtre latin et mise en scène des classiques à l’université de Louvain, dans les premières décennies du XVIe siècle : corpus et perspectives de recherche"
Université catholique de Louvain
Collège Mercier – SOCR 28
FIAL, Place Cardinal Mercier, 14
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
De 14h à 17h