@BramCaers

Assistant Professor of medieval Dutch literature (up to 1600) @LeidenHum. Editor @redactiequeeste.

 Antwerp, Belgium
Joined July 2019
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Excited to announce that in February 2023, I will be joining @LUCAS_Leiden @LeidenHum on a permanent basis as Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature. Looking forward to sharing my enthusiasm for Medieval Literature and Culture with students and colleagues alike!
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Ms. II 3189 @kbrbe, a parchment scroll of 8 meters long, c. 1350, Northern France, with 40+ scenes from the life of St Quentin and captions in French and Dutch, models for now-lost wall paintings in St Quentin's Church in Louvain 
Recently digitised: uurl.kbr.be/2216968
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Le néerlandais en vrije val en Wallonie. 49% des élèves de première secondaire le choisissaient en 2009. Ils ne sont plus que 24% aujourd’hui. Pire encore : le gouvernement francophone renonce à le rendre obligatoire. Waarom? Daarom👇 rtl.be/actu/belgique/societe…

"Difficile", "Moche" et imposé : pourquoi le néerlandais fait fuir la plupart des élèves de...

Il y a 15 ans, 49% des élèves de première secondaire de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles choisissaient le néerlandais comme deuxième langue. Cette année, ils ne sont plus que 24%, voire moins dans...

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KBR@kbrbe22 Nov 2024
Voor haar 40ste verjaardag ging het Belgisch-Nederlands Boekbandengenootschap op zoek naar de oudste boekband uit onze regio. De winnaar? Deze unieke 10de-eeuwse boekband (Ms. 8380-9012) van eikenhouten platten die wordt gekoesterd in de collectie van KBR.
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#otd in 1424, Thomas a Kempis had copied his ‘Imitatio Christi’, the second most widely distributed book ever Pop-up expo ‘Mindfulness from the Middle Ages’ @kbrbe, tells its 600 years' story through the autograph (picture), manuscripts, incunabula, rare editions, translations
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Wealthy merchant Lowys Porquin had a remarkable book written and printed in Antwerp in 1563 with his own biography and family history, and a spiritual will with moral advice for his 11 children   II 94.724 A @kbrbe, 1 of 3 surviving copies, bound for his daughter Beatris in 1565
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spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)" universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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La @BNE_biblioteca es el guardián de nuestro patrimonio bibliográfico y uno de los grandes símbolos de nuestra cultura. Por eso, vamos a invertir 8 millones de euros en una intervención integral sin precedentes en las últimas décadas para salvaguardarla.
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Pssst! 🤫 Remember, you can also find us on 🟦☁️ bsky.app/profile/amsterdamup…
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Fancy some 14th-century vernacular songs in Middle Dutch with musical notation? Here's just the thing for you. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-… #fragmentology
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Books have layers! Book printed in black and white (1484), rubricated, woodcuts coloured and initials flourished by hand, damaged, repaired in handwriting. And still going strong today @ubleiden Dutch translation of the Gesta Romanorum, 21219 B 15: 2.
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#Vacature Medewerker #digitalisering #BijzondereCollecties @UBLeiden. Je wordt verantwoordelijk voor de digitalisering van de erfgoedcollectie waaronder gedrukte boeken, middeleeuwse handschriften, fotografie, prenten & archiefmateriaal. #werk #werkenbij universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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Bij Uitgeverij @Lannoo is 'Het kookboek van Nederland. Onze keuken van 1500 tot nu in 100 kookboeken en gerechten' verschenen, samengesteld door Jonah Freud en @garreltv: mdnl.nl/?p=17024
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I'm looking for two PhD candidates in my new research project Wording America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028! Please share widely ❤️ universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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A true pocket book!   Ms. 14862 @kbrbe, a 13th-century psalter of 7 x 5 cm, written and illustrated in Hamage Abbey (France)   F. 141: King David in water up to his waist; a bowman shooting an arrow at a bird From the Renesse-Breidbach collection, auctioned in Antwerp in 1835
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Ms. IV 1050 @kbrbe, Gaston Phoebus, ‘Le livre de chasse’, c. 1490, a popular hunting manual in French with 16th-century Dutch texts on falconry written on the blank pages, from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, auctioned in London as late as 1975 uurl.kbr.be/1844173
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VH 606 A @kbrbe, Book of Hours (Use of Rome) in French, printed on vellum in Paris for Jean de Brie, c. 1516, gilded edges, coloured illustrations and marginal decoration, bound in a mosaic binding for ‘Iehanne Cappitainne’, from the collection of Charles Van Hulthem
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Ms. 9277 @kbrbe, ‘Chronique de Baudouin d’Avesnes’, a compilation of the lives of the Emperors, c. 1465, Lille (France), 25 miniatures In the pictures: Julius Caesar defeating the Belgae (f. 73); the coronation of Charlemagne (f. 254) Recently digitised: uurl.kbr.be/2180061
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Waar Nederland al sinds jaar en dag niet voldoet aan de EU-doelstelling om 3 procent van het bbp te investeren in onderzoek en innovatie, schroeft de nieuwe Vlaamse regering de ambitie op naar 5 procent, zo blijkt uit het nieuwe regeerakkoord. scienceguide.nl/2024/09/nieu…

Nieuwe Vlaamse regering wil 5 procent van bbp investeren in onderzoek en innovatie  - ScienceGuide

Waar Nederland al sinds jaar en dag niet voldoet aan de EU-doelstelling om 3 procent van het bbp te investeren in onderzoek en innovatie, schroeft Vlaanderen de ambitie juist op: de zuiderburen...

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Job! Come join the Leiden ‘Book and Digital Media Studies’ MA programme, to complement our diachronic scope (manuscript, handpress book, industrial age, digital age) with your modern (publishing) expertise! universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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The programme is a growing MA track which recruits internationally, providing for enriching discussions with students from all over the world.
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