The Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine was founded in the 13th century by the Counts of Luxembourg. During the 13th and the 14th century the abbey served as burial ground of the Luxembourgian dynasty. The foundation of the abbey meant the creation of a material framework for the remembrance of the dead. In the meantime the noble burial ground and the tombs of the dead became lieux de mémoire, a part of the collective memory reminding not only the success of an elite family but also the emergence of an Luxembourgian political and cultural identity. The long history of the site illustrates the way this memory was perceived, maintained and rewritten by various social groups for their own social aspirations. Monastic space and both material a...
The PhD study aims at putting Denmark on the Cistercian map of medieval Europe, and investigates the...
Beatrice of Nazareth was but one of many women from the southern Low Countries who chose a religious...
When on 26 May 1662 the founding first stone was laid for a new church on the island Nordstrand at t...
The Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine was founded in the 13th century by the Counts of Luxembourg...
In the Low Countries and more particularly in the county of Flanders, the duchy of Brabant and the p...
Recent research has proven that there was a preference for Cistercian nunneries for perpetuating dyn...
Near Arlon in Belgium (province of Luxembourg), the site of Clairefontaine, the ancient abbey of the...
The 'tomb' of count Florence V of Holland in the ‘Grote Kerk’ (St. Laurentius church) of Alkmaar has...
For the last forty years the commemoration of the dead (i.e. memoria) has become an important resear...
This article analyses the use of memoria with respect to the Carthusian monastery of Scheut, a few m...
The Dominican church of Louvain (Leuven, Belgium), the oldest gothic building in the capital of Brab...
Gerard van Gelre († 1229) and his wife Margaretha van Brabant († 1231) were the founders of a Cister...
Deze scriptie richt zich op historisch fenomeen van het vrouwelijk religieus bestaan in de Lage Land...
Archeologisch en historisch onderzoek aan de Kloosterstraat 17 in Doesburg. In 2014 is begonnen met ...
In Leiden the principal parish church, St. Peter, was from 1268 served by priests from the Utrecht b...
The PhD study aims at putting Denmark on the Cistercian map of medieval Europe, and investigates the...
Beatrice of Nazareth was but one of many women from the southern Low Countries who chose a religious...
When on 26 May 1662 the founding first stone was laid for a new church on the island Nordstrand at t...
The Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine was founded in the 13th century by the Counts of Luxembourg...
In the Low Countries and more particularly in the county of Flanders, the duchy of Brabant and the p...
Recent research has proven that there was a preference for Cistercian nunneries for perpetuating dyn...
Near Arlon in Belgium (province of Luxembourg), the site of Clairefontaine, the ancient abbey of the...
The 'tomb' of count Florence V of Holland in the ‘Grote Kerk’ (St. Laurentius church) of Alkmaar has...
For the last forty years the commemoration of the dead (i.e. memoria) has become an important resear...
This article analyses the use of memoria with respect to the Carthusian monastery of Scheut, a few m...
The Dominican church of Louvain (Leuven, Belgium), the oldest gothic building in the capital of Brab...
Gerard van Gelre († 1229) and his wife Margaretha van Brabant († 1231) were the founders of a Cister...
Deze scriptie richt zich op historisch fenomeen van het vrouwelijk religieus bestaan in de Lage Land...
Archeologisch en historisch onderzoek aan de Kloosterstraat 17 in Doesburg. In 2014 is begonnen met ...
In Leiden the principal parish church, St. Peter, was from 1268 served by priests from the Utrecht b...
The PhD study aims at putting Denmark on the Cistercian map of medieval Europe, and investigates the...
Beatrice of Nazareth was but one of many women from the southern Low Countries who chose a religious...
When on 26 May 1662 the founding first stone was laid for a new church on the island Nordstrand at t...