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Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt

Boursière UCL

SSH/INCA Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres (INCAL)

Monograph

Edited Volume

  • With Norihiro Morimoto, Les Réceptions de la spiritualité médiévale des Pays-Bas et de la région rhénane à l’époque moderne. Héritages, circulations et réseaux (Louvain: Peeters, “Miscellanea neerlandica,” submitted, publication expected in early 2027).

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • “La spiritualité de la cellule. Métaphore et exercice spirituel aux Pays-Bas à la fin du Moyen Âge” (submitted to the Revue de l’histoire des religions).

  • “The Exercise of the Imagination in Jan Mombaer’s Rosetum,” Ons Geestelijk Erf: Journal for the History of Spirituality in the Low Countries, Special Issue “Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries,” 94: 1-3 (2024), 41-66, DOI: 10.2143/OGE.94.1.3293962.

  • “Image et dévotion domestique. Enquête à partir de testaments tournaisiens du XVe siècle,” CEM/ Cultura, Espaço & Memória 14, Special Issue “Image and devotion” (2022), 285-296, DOI: 10.21747/2182-1097/14.

  • “What approach to Flemish Annunciations?,” Arts, 11: 33, Special Issue “Flemish Art: Past and Present” (2022), DOI: 10.3390/arts11010033.

Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Books

  • “Is there such a Thing as a Carthusian Spirituality? The Bibliotheca Cartusiana and the Construction of a Tradition,” Companion to the Carthusians, ed. Tom Gaens (Leiden-Boston: Brill, in preparation). 

  • “Preaching with Paper: The Cologne Carthusians and the Illustrated Printed Book,” in Mundus Chartaceus: Paper, Virtual Presence, and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, ed. Walter S. Melion and Sarah McPhee (Leiden-Boston: Brill, “Intersections,” to be published in 2027). 

  • “The Cologne Carthusians, Images, and Spiritual Exercises: Discourses and Practices,” in Carthusians and Images: New Perspectives on Religious Art and Devotional Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Charterhouse, ed. Ingrid Falque and Tom Gaens (Turnhout: Brepols, “Proteus,” submitted).

  • “From the Mental Cell to the Composition of Place: Carthusian and Jesuit Mental Image-Making,” in The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture, ed. Walter S. Melion and Michael Zell (Leiden-Boston: Brill, “Intersection,” 2026), 229-257. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004764484-009. 

  • “Intra locum secretum: Privacy, Retreat, and Desire in Dionysius the Carthusian’s Pastoral Dialogues,” in Practices of Privacy: Vestiges of Dialogue and its Places, ed. Natacha Klein Käfer (Leuven: Peeters, accepted for publication, forthcoming).

Conference Proceedings

  • “Prier à l’image de la Vierge: dispositifs mobiles et dévotion domestique à travers les scènes d’Annonciation flamandes au XVe siècle,” in L’œuvre en mouvement de l’Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Morgan Dickson, Véronique Dominguez-Guillaume, Marie-Laurence Haack, Dominique Paris-Poulain, Philippe Sénéchal (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2022), 109-122.

Reviews and Reports

  • “Joanka van der Laan, Performative Religious Reading in the Low Countries (c. 1470-1550),” Ons Geestelijk Erf : Journal for the History of Spirituality in the Low Countries (2026).

  • “Joanka van der Laan, Performative Religious Reading in the Low Countries (c. 1470-1550),” Le Moyen Âge (2026).

  • “Frederik Buylaert and Miet Adriaens, Lordship, Capitalism, and the State in Flanders c. 1250-1570,” Renaissance Quarterly 79.1 (2026), 314-315.

  • With Norihiro Morimoto, Report on the Conference “The Receptions of Medieval Spirituality of the Low Countries and the Rhineland in Early Modern Europe: Legacies, Circulations, and Networks,” Revue Mabillon, “Chronique,” 36 (2025), 209-211.

  • “Donna L. Sadler, The Nun’s Cell as Mirror, Memoir, and Metaphor in Convent Life. Study of the Models of Nuns’ Cells from the Collection of the Trésors de Ferveur,” Ons Geestelijk Erf: Journal for the History of Spirituality in the Low Countries 94: 1-3 (2024), 239-240.

  • “Marc de Kesel, Inigo Bocken (eds), Down Town / Down Soul. Early Modern Mysticism, the Self & the Political,” Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 196 (octobre-décembre 2021), 237-238, DOI: 10.4000/assr.64384.

  • “More than one picture: an art history of the hyperimage,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, 28, 4 (2020), 612-613, DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2020.1846298.