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Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
annelaure.vanbruaene@ugent.be
Department
Department of History
Research group(s)
GEMS - Group for Early Modern Studies
HPIMS - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies
HPIMSDH - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies
IEMH - Institute for Early Modern History
Urban History
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Retracing Ghent. City views as visual discourses on the local past, c. 1500-1900
(
2023
-
2027
)
Sodomy. A tale of middle-sized cities. Rethinking homoerotic desires in the eighteenth-century Southern Netherlands and France
(
2022
-
2025
)
The image of the city of Ghent in the nineteenth-century topographic-historical collection of Pierre-Jacques Goetghebuer
(
2021
-
2025
)
Renovating the church. Material culture, Habsburg ritual and early counter-reformation experiments in the Low Countries, c.1535-1585
(
2020
-
2024
)
The Geuzenhoek. Religious coexistence and multiple identities in rural Flanders (1600-1750)
(
2016
-
2020
)
Urban discourses on sodomy in the early modern Southern Netherlands (ca. 1400-1650)
(
2014
-
2018
)
Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies (IDC)
(
2013
-
2028
)
The forging of a pre-modern urban elite. Political networks and social change in sixteenth-century Ghent
(
2013
-
2018
)
Embodied piety in the age of iconoclasm. Church, artefact and religious routine in the sixteenth-century Low Countries
(
2013
-
2018
)
Multimedia practices and urban contexts in the reformation Low Countries
(
2013
-
2016
)
The church in the middle. An inquiry into the urban parish and parish church in the Southern Low Countries (ca. 1450-1700)
(
2010
-
2013
)
Hupsicheyt en hantgedaet. Kunstacademie en ambachtsgilden te Gent (ca. 1748-1800)
(
2007
-
2013
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Walls of words. Investigating urban representation of Bruges, Ghent and Ypres in middle Dutch and middle French literature (14th-15th century)
(
2025
-
2029
)
Tacitism in Hugo Grotius's historiography
(
2021
-
Women governing the act of writing. The princesses of Burgundy and Savoie (1470-1550)
(
2020
-
2025
)
Succulent Systems of Knowledge The Art Historical Meaning of Culinary Imagery in Early Modern Visual Arts in Antwerp
(
2015
-
2025
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Bouras, Nadia, et al., editors.
Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen : Stadsgeschiedenis van Nederland En België
. Atlas Contact, 2025.
Van Bruaene, Anne-Laure. “To the Field Sermon : Popular Reformation in the Low Countries between Urban Space and Countryside.”
EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
, vol. 55, no. 1, 2025, pp. 112–29, doi:10.1177/02656914241301623.
Van Bruaene, Anne-Laure. “Un Retour Au ‘pays’ Sous Haute Tension : L’empereur, La Régente et La Révolte de Gand.”
Marie de Hongrie : Art & Pouvoir à La Renaissance
, edited by Jean-Marie Cauchies and Gilles Docquier, Domaine & Musée royal de Mariemont, 2025, pp. 291–95.
Van Bruaene, Anne-Laure. “Les Chambres de Rhétorique et Les Fêtes.”
Fêtes et Célébrations Flamandes : Brueghel, Rubens, Jordaens
, edited by Blaise Ducos and Sabine van Sprang, Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, 2025, pp. 109–16.
Van Bruaene, Anne-Laure. “Van Kettersnest Tot Geuzenhoek.”
Margaretha : Keizersdochter Tussen Macht En Imago
, edited by Katrien Lichtert, Hannibal, 2024, pp. 154–63.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Early Modern History
History and Culture of the Netherlands
Visual Materials as Historical Sources
