Historian of art & women. Research faculty at the University of Oslo. Developmental academic editor specialized in early modern art/religious/social history.
Rotterdam/Oslo
Joined June 2012
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"We have to protect creation," Sr. Consuelo Peset Laudeña said. "We are Franciscans. St. Francis is the patron saint of veterinarians, and that is the source of the love we feel for the Spanish giant rabbit."
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My book on the Bourbons is coming out next month! Some of the material that didn't make it in includes two families with Bourbon blood, the dukes of Sueca and the dukes of Riansares, both descended from young men who caught the royal eye! dukesandprinces.org/2026/09/…
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Yesterday's great honour to talk about dynastic survival strategies
Day 2 of #KQ15 in #prague
Thank you @JSpanUK for opening as today's keynote speaker, and everyone who delivered a wide variety of thought-provoking papers and our hosts
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#conference #royalstudies #kingship #queenship #history
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In the 1540s Granvelle also commissioned a grand Renaissance palace in Brussels. The palace no longer exists as it was demolished in the 1930s.
#OTD in 1517, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle was born. He would serve as Archbishop of Mechelen and as extremely unpopular de facto principal minister to Margaret, Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Just dropped *today*: Early Modern Women and Religious Innovation, eds Katherine O’Donnell&Francesco Quatrini (Bloomsbury), w/my chapt "Reform and Resistance in the 1540s, or How the Diest Beguines Tried to Get Rid of Their Priest"
Preview on GoogleBooks:tinyurl.com/r9d59y74
A few scenes from the #Lier Beguinage, with church and houses built mostly in the 17th century. Unlike nuns, Beguines had to pay for their own housing, which was key to the Beguinages' remarkabe financially stability.
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#Lier Beguinage gate, 17th c, w/a statue of St. Begga dated 1777. Beguinage gates stood open from dawn to dusk, when the "schavanie" bell was rung to tell all men and boys to leave before the gates were locked.
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Mechelen Grand Beguinage church pulpit, early to mid‑eighteenth century, attr. Theodoor Verhaegen, w/ images of Catherine, Alexis, Begga, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, & four religious allegories for the base.
For more on Beguines, check out my new book! h1.nu/1uO-T
Jan Baptist van Helderbergh's pulpit for the Small Beguinage of Ghent, 1731–1732, w/ scenes of the Woman at the Well, Mary Magdalene Washing Christ’s Feet, Parable of the Good Shepherd, Christ Calming the Storm, & Jesus and Zacchaeus, & base figures of Faith, Divine Love, & Hope.
Anonymous 17th-c painting of a Beguine in an enclosed garden, Mechelen cityscape in the background.
Anyone know where this work might be? It's featured in the Hooglied catalog (1994) but I haven't been able to trace it.
#ArtHistory #FlemishArt #ArtCollecting
Theodoor van Loon's beautiful Trinity/Holy Family, probably made for the Brussels Vineyard Beguinage church. Another version was installed on an altar at the Leuven Beguinage church but is now untraced.
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A grand and gorgeous painting by Theodoor Boeyermans in the Leuven Beguinage church: St. Begga of Andenne in Adoration of the consecrated host; in the background, Ansegisel discovers the baby Goudin in the background.
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To celebrate her 1648 election as grand mistress of Ghent's St. Elisabeth Beguinage, Maria vanden Haute comm'd a gilded monstrance w/her patron, Mary, at center. She died in 1675 & was buried in the Dominican tertiary habit.
Learn more in my new book: h1.nu/1uO-T
My new book, Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries: 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages, is officially available for pre-order from Routledge!
An absolute must for your university library, if you ask me 😉.
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Christopher Leutbrewer’s Gulde biecht‑konste was pub'd in many eds in the Southern Low Countries from 1646 into 18th c. Over time the penitents in the print change: males & females on different sides (as instructed by Borromeo in 1577) til the 1697 print, where sexes are mixed.
Pulpit at the #Lier Beguine church, by Ludovicus Willemssens, c.1670. The base is formed by female saints: Begga, Margaret, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, w/ symbols of the Evangelists bracing the rostrum.
Find out more in my book! h1.nu/1uO-T
