Hanno Wijsman

Prof. Dr. Wim Blockmans (Leiden University)
Prof. Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Catholic University of Leuven)
Prof. Dr. Bert Cardon (Catholic University of Leuven)

About

Fields of Interest
Medieval libraries. Medieval history. Cultural history. France and the Burgundian Netherlands. Manuscript production. Book possession. Library history. Function and use of books. Gender aspects of book possession. Transmission of manuscripts and libraries. Early printed books. Illuminated manuscripts. Miniatures. Text-image relationships in illustrated manuscripts. Art patronage. Iconography. The use of images as a source for historical research.

Since 2010 I work at the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des texts (IRHT – CNRS: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/) in Paris, more precisely at the ‘Section de codicologie, héraldique et histoire des bibliothèques’ where is carried out the ANR-project Biblifram: Les bibliothèques, matrices et représentations des identités de la France médiévale, see : http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/recherche/projet-biblifram.htm.

In 2007-2010 I was postdoc researcher (‘veni’) at Leiden University on a project (financed by NWO = Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) entitled: Taste in transition. Mass reproduction and consumption of visual representations in the Low Countries 1400-1550.

In June 2003 I defended my PhD thesis about the production of illustrated manuscripts and the libraries of noblemen and –women in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550). This dissertation was credited “cum laude” and was rewarded with a Research Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation(www.erasmusprijs.org). A fully revised and considerably augmented edition in English has been published in 2010: Luxury Bound. The Production of Illustrated Manuscripts and Princely and Noble Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550).

In 2005-2007 I was a half-time lecturer in medieval history at Leiden University. In 2003-2007 I was a postdoc researcher in the Belgian IUAP/PAI project Urban Society in the Low Countries, Late Middle Ages – 16th Century (www.ulb.ac.be/philo/urbs) for three years. I spent a year in Paris research institutions thanks to a grant by the Niels Stensen Stichting. In 2004 I was seconded for three months to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (www.illuminare.be), to work on the catalogue of illuminated manuscripts kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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http://fr.linkedin.com/in/hannowijsman