Bram Caers is an Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch literature (up to 1600). His research interest include (urban) historiography in the vernacular, early modern manuscript culture and the interplay between manuscript and print, epic literature, rhetoricians, and medievalism. He teaches courses on Medieval literature as well as book history into the modern age.

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Research

I am particularly fascinated by the contact zone between the periods traditionally labelled as the 'Middle Ages' and the 'Renaissance'. I have looked at how Renaissance texts portray the Middle Ages, and at how the medieval manuscript changed form and function in the course of the Renaissance. In my current research, I study an Early Modern manuscript dealing mostly with events from the sixteenth century. This research allows me to to combine my insights from Medieval Manuscript Studies with a good grasp of Early Modern Cultural and Political History.

CV

Grants & awards

2010 Intra-universitaire Scriptieprijs / Runner-up for the Taalunie Scriptieprijs
2018 KVAB Jaarprijs Wetenschapscommunicatie

Publications