Mathilde Van Dijk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mathilde Van Dijk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mathilde |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Dijk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DIJK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0821-2038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ronald van Raak, Het begon in Deventer. De waarden van de Moderne Devotie
beweging in een cyclus beland van vergeten en herinnerd worden.In de eerste versie van de Canon van de Nederlandse geschiedenis had zij bijvoorbeeld geen apart
Female Spirituality in the Devotio Moderna
In a Low Countries urban context, it is not surprising that the Devotio Moderna appealed mostly to women. From the rise of the Poverty Movement from the twelfth century, contemporary sources report that the ideal of vita apostolica et evangelica attracted women first and foremost. Many chose a life without vows, as Beguines. Some acted as spiritual leaders. In the 1370s, Geert Grote intended to put a stop to what was seen as undesirable effects o…
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies
This article attempts to make a connection between two fields, that usually operate in separate intellectual contexts: critical research on heritage as a social practice and the study of historical and fantasy fiction, concentrating on renditions of the Middle Ages. Both the construction of heritage and the creation of a fictional narrative are ways of processing of the past, although, at first sight, opposites. Claiming a site as heritage and th…
Living with Time
At first sight, Denis Villeneuve's 2016 Arrival seems to provide a fairly standard science fiction narrative about the landing of aliens on earth and the panic that ensues, featuring aggressive soldiers, a suspicious CIA man, brilliant scientists and rioting populaces. The film could be read as propaganda for the humanities as it is a linguist rather than a natural scientist who saves the world. The second narrative is more important, as acknowle…
Working with Tradition, Aiming for Reform
This article examines how the Carthusian Peter Dorlandus (1454–1507) rewrote the material about well-known saints like Joseph of Nazareth, Catherine of Alexandria, Cecilia of Rome, and Francis of Assisi so as to serve in the reformation both of individual believers and of the Church. He experimented with different genres: the traditional hagiographical genre of a vita, a hybrid text between the sermon and the vita, and the dialogue. Saint Joseph …
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life. The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Spiritualité, sainteté et patriotisme. Glorification du Brabant dans l'œuvre hagiographique de Jean Gielemans (1427–1487)
Naar voorbeeld van de vaders
Sinte Gregorius seet
The adherents of the Devotio Moderna regarded the Church Fathers as reliable guides in their search for true piety, which they defined as the imitation of Christ. This article discusses the role of one of the most important among them, Gregory the Great, and takes its point of departure from the surviving texts that were ascribed to him in the convent of Saint Agnes at Maaseik. The purpose is to study how these regular canonesses used Gregory in …
Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Johannes Busch
Disciples of the Deep Desert
This article examines how biographers from the Chapter of Windesheim construed their brothers and sisters as the new desert fathers. In the Devotio Moderna, these first hermits, monks, and nuns were regarded as the epitomes of what true piety was about. Windesheim biographers like John Busch put their subjects forward as the new practitioners of true piety, as it had been coined by the desert fathers. But what did this mean to them? How did they …
The Encroaching Desert
In 1993, James Goehring published an important article entided 'The Encroaching Desert: Literary Production and Ascetic Space in Early Christian Egypt,'1 in which he unravels the presented by the early Christian sources that in Late Antiquity the Egyptian was filled with monks. Beginning with the metaphorical dichotomy between and city, Goehring shows that the desert myth was a literary construct in which holy men withdrew to the in massive numbe…
Saints, Scholars and Politicians
"Over the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies. The purpose of this volume is to evaluate its use and to search for ways in which to improve and enhance its value. The authors address the question of how gender relates to other tools of medieval research. Several articles criticize the way in which an exclusive focus on gender tends to obscure the impact of other factors, for instance class, politics,…
Henry Mande
Over the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies. The purpose of this volume is to evaluate its use and to search for ways in which to improve and enhance its value. The authors address the question of how gender relates to other tools of medieval research. Several articles criticize the way in which an exclusive focus on gender tends to obscure the impact of other factors, for instance class, politics, …
Miracles and Visions in Devotio Moderna Biographies
Sister Liesbeth of Heenvliet (d. 1450) was a scion of a high ranking noble family in the county of Holland. Her parents had named her after Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, from whom they were descended. Liesbeth was born blind. Her mother did not dare to inform the child’s father, Johan of Heenvliet. Instead, she appealed to God and His Mother. Contrary to what she should have done, she did not vow her daughter to God’s service. Despite her mother’s …
St. Katherine of Alexandria
De wil op God afstemmen
From the fourteenth century, the Dutch and the German language areas were the scenes of a revolution. There was a virtual explosion of texts in the vernacular, both original works and translations. The intended audience consisted of layfolk, inside and outside religious communities. This paper discusses a Middle Dutch copy of a most popular text on both sides of the present day border: the Decalogue by the Southern German Franciscan Marquard of L…
Manuel de la réforme intérieure
How To Be a Good Shepherd in Devotio Moderna
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies
This article attempts to make a connection between two fields, that usually operate in separate intellectual contexts: critical research on heritage as a social practice and the study of historical and fantasy fiction, concentrating on renditions of the Middle Ages. Both the construction of heritage and the creation of a fictional narrative are ways of processing of the past, although, at first sight, opposites. Claiming a site as heritage and th…
The Encroaching Desert
In 1993, James Goehring published an important article entided 'The Encroaching Desert: Literary Production and Ascetic Space in Early Christian Egypt,'1 in which he unravels the presented by the early Christian sources that in Late Antiquity the Egyptian was filled with monks. Beginning with the metaphorical dichotomy between and city, Goehring shows that the desert myth was a literary construct in which holy men withdrew to the in massive numbe…
How To Be a Good Shepherd in Devotio Moderna
De wil op God afstemmen
From the fourteenth century, the Dutch and the German language areas were the scenes of a revolution. There was a virtual explosion of texts in the vernacular, both original works and translations. The intended audience consisted of layfolk, inside and outside religious communities. This paper discusses a Middle Dutch copy of a most popular text on both sides of the present day border: the Decalogue by the Southern German Franciscan Marquard of L…
Manuel de la réforme intérieure
Saints, Scholars and Politicians
"Over the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies. The purpose of this volume is to evaluate its use and to search for ways in which to improve and enhance its value. The authors address the question of how gender relates to other tools of medieval research. Several articles criticize the way in which an exclusive focus on gender tends to obscure the impact of other factors, for instance class, politics,…
Henry Mande
Over the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies. The purpose of this volume is to evaluate its use and to search for ways in which to improve and enhance its value. The authors address the question of how gender relates to other tools of medieval research. Several articles criticize the way in which an exclusive focus on gender tends to obscure the impact of other factors, for instance class, politics, …
Miracles and Visions in Devotio Moderna Biographies
Sister Liesbeth of Heenvliet (d. 1450) was a scion of a high ranking noble family in the county of Holland. Her parents had named her after Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, from whom they were descended. Liesbeth was born blind. Her mother did not dare to inform the child’s father, Johan of Heenvliet. Instead, she appealed to God and His Mother. Contrary to what she should have done, she did not vow her daughter to God’s service. Despite her mother’s …
St. Katherine of Alexandria
Disciples of the Deep Desert
This article examines how biographers from the Chapter of Windesheim construed their brothers and sisters as the new desert fathers. In the Devotio Moderna, these first hermits, monks, and nuns were regarded as the epitomes of what true piety was about. Windesheim biographers like John Busch put their subjects forward as the new practitioners of true piety, as it had been coined by the desert fathers. But what did this mean to them? How did they …
The Encroaching Desert
In 1993, James Goehring published an important article entided 'The Encroaching Desert: Literary Production and Ascetic Space in Early Christian Egypt,'1 in which he unravels the presented by the early Christian sources that in Late Antiquity the Egyptian was filled with monks. Beginning with the metaphorical dichotomy between and city, Goehring shows that the desert myth was a literary construct in which holy men withdrew to the in massive numbe…
Johannes Busch
Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Spiritualité, sainteté et patriotisme. Glorification du Brabant dans l'œuvre hagiographique de Jean Gielemans (1427–1487)
Naar voorbeeld van de vaders
Sinte Gregorius seet
The adherents of the Devotio Moderna regarded the Church Fathers as reliable guides in their search for true piety, which they defined as the imitation of Christ. This article discusses the role of one of the most important among them, Gregory the Great, and takes its point of departure from the surviving texts that were ascribed to him in the convent of Saint Agnes at Maaseik. The purpose is to study how these regular canonesses used Gregory in …
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life. The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Working with Tradition, Aiming for Reform
This article examines how the Carthusian Peter Dorlandus (1454–1507) rewrote the material about well-known saints like Joseph of Nazareth, Catherine of Alexandria, Cecilia of Rome, and Francis of Assisi so as to serve in the reformation both of individual believers and of the Church. He experimented with different genres: the traditional hagiographical genre of a vita, a hybrid text between the sermon and the vita, and the dialogue. Saint Joseph …
Living with Time
At first sight, Denis Villeneuve's 2016 Arrival seems to provide a fairly standard science fiction narrative about the landing of aliens on earth and the panic that ensues, featuring aggressive soldiers, a suspicious CIA man, brilliant scientists and rioting populaces. The film could be read as propaganda for the humanities as it is a linguist rather than a natural scientist who saves the world. The second narrative is more important, as acknowle…
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies
This article attempts to make a connection between two fields, that usually operate in separate intellectual contexts: critical research on heritage as a social practice and the study of historical and fantasy fiction, concentrating on renditions of the Middle Ages. Both the construction of heritage and the creation of a fictional narrative are ways of processing of the past, although, at first sight, opposites. Claiming a site as heritage and th…
Female Spirituality in the Devotio Moderna
In a Low Countries urban context, it is not surprising that the Devotio Moderna appealed mostly to women. From the rise of the Poverty Movement from the twelfth century, contemporary sources report that the ideal of vita apostolica et evangelica attracted women first and foremost. Many chose a life without vows, as Beguines. Some acted as spiritual leaders. In the 1370s, Geert Grote intended to put a stop to what was seen as undesirable effects o…
Ronald van Raak, Het begon in Deventer. De waarden van de Moderne Devotie
beweging in een cyclus beland van vergeten en herinnerd worden.In de eerste versie van de Canon van de Nederlandse geschiedenis had zij bijvoorbeeld geen apart
Art (12 works) · History (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (11 works) · Classics (9 works) · Medieval history (8 works) · Church History (7 works) · Medieval Literature and History (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Theology (6 works)