Miraeus lecture Margriet Hoogvliet

On 15 May Dr. Margriet Hoogvliet gave a Miraeus Lecture on the religious reading culture of lay people in the region between Paris and Antwerp in the fifteenth century. The lecture (in Dutch) is now available.

The collection of broadside ballads

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library holds a large collection of broadside ballads, ranging from the seventeenth century to the 1950’s and mostly printed in the Southern Netherlands and Belgium. Ballad singers often performed on public markets, hence the Dutch name ‘marktzangers’ and ‘marktliederen’. The last traditional ballad singers performed in the 1950’s.

Blogpost Fabio Della Schiava

Fabio Della Schiava is visiting professor in the history of humanism and neo-Latin Literature at the University of Leuven. Currently, he is working on a project about the reception of St. Augustine’s De civitate Dei. On 17 May he took his students in Latin Literature to the Hendrik Conscience Library for a workshop on Humanism. In this blogpost he gives us a vivid account of their visit.

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Painters & Writers: 50 years of gallery De Zwarte Panter

Gallery De Zwarte Panter has reached its fiftieth year. Painters & Writers provides an impressive overview of 117 book illustration collections and artists’ books that have been published since the gallery's opening.

Google Books in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library

Beyond the pandemic

In February 2020, we announced that Google Books, the Hendrik Conscience Library and the Plantin-Moretus Museum were starting a project to digitize 100,000 books from our collections that are in the public domain. Just a few days later, the country went into lockdown. How has the project proceeded over this eventful year?