Publicaties
De l'abbatiat laïque à l'avouerie : le cas des monastères de femmes en Lotharingie (IXe-début Xie siècle) Universiteit Gent
Discourses of resistance, resilience, and resignation : the secular canonesses of Bouxières and their multiple response to the French Revolution (1790-91) Universiteit Gent
Encased in silk : the women of Bouxières and their Medieval archives Universiteit Gent
Guillaume de Saint-Thierry, Sur L'observance Bénédictine Universiteit Gent
Reading English poetry at Saint-Peter’s abbey in Ghent : the mortuary roll of Mathilde of Sainte-Trinité in Caen (1113/14) in context Universiteit Gent
Study of the exchange of literary texts between England and the Low Countries allows us to get a glimpse of the complex factors that drove the circulation of specific genres and individual texts, and the fact that these genres and texts acquired significant ‘meta-data’ along their journey. In this paper I shall look at the funerary roll of Abbess Mathilde of Sainte-Trinité in Caen (d. 6 July 1113) to suggest that this document would have been of ...
À quoi sert la renovatio? Réforme carolingienne et changements institutionnels dans la vie religieuse des IXe et Xe siècles Universiteit Gent
This paper considers the question whether the renovatio of the Frankish Church at the beginning of the ninth century must be understood as a deliberate and paradigm-shifting effort to institutionalize the religious life. It argues against the notion that lawmakers created uniform cohorts of (on the one hand) houses of canons or canonesses and (on the other) monasteries of contemplative monks or nuns; that each cohort was supposed to literally ...