MOM 1: In Love with Your Stepmother 23 to 31 March is the Dutch National Week of the Book. For this reason, the month March will be devoted to this year's theme ‘de moeder de vrouw’, as the Month of the Mother (MOM). This week's blog explores a son's problematic love for his stepmother. Tim Vergeer • March 07, 2019
It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands A small corpus of extant seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouses shares traits with other contemporary collecting practices, but demonstrates different potentials for microcosmic thinking. Jun Nakamura • February 21, 2019
How to Share Your Research with the World On blogs and other platforms to share academic research and what universities and funding organizations can do to help. Lieke Smits • February 14, 2019
Dutch Christmas: Morbid & Melancholic Music In this blog post, Tim prepares for Christmas Eve in his own special way by listening to the Christmas Carol 'O Kerstnacht, schooner dan de dagen', written by Joost van den Vondel in 1637. Tim Vergeer • December 21, 2018
Medieval ASMR? Physical sensations were and important part of medieval religious experience. Can we compare this tot he sensations of ASMR? Lieke Smits • December 06, 2018
Strange Strophes: Rebellious Singing in Heynck’s Veranderlyk geval In this blog post, Tim Vergeer tries to discover the melody of one of the songs in Veranderlyk geval, which was the most popular adaptation of a Spanish play in the Dutch Republic. Tim Vergeer • November 25, 2018
I, Mary of Guelders Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presents the exhibition 'I, Mary of Guelders'. Who was this 'Máxima of the fifteenth century'? Lieke Smits • November 15, 2018
̶M̶o̶n̶k̶'̶s̶ Nun's work Andrea Reyes Elizondo has taken two research stays at Mexican archives. Here she talks about the challenges encountered and discoveries made during those visits. Andrea Reyes Elizondo • October 11, 2018 • 1 comment
One hundred and eleven drawings identified as the work of Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder The scoop every project is hoping for. Dirk Geirnaert • October 04, 2018 • 2 comments
