Dr. Brigitte Adriaensen
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature
Arts, Social and behavioural sciences, Humanities, Languages
Cultural transfer and dissimination of literary, artistic and religious motifs from antiquity into the Islamic world, in particular the oriental Alexander tradition in the languages and cultures of the Middle East, Africa, central Asia and south-east Asia.
Literary-historical research into the Alexander cycle in historical, religious, literary, philosophical and scientifical sources and popular epics from the Arabic and Islamic world
Gog and Magog and Islamic eschatology
Codicology and Paleography of Arabic and Islamic manuscripts
Traditional art, calligraphy and miniaturepainting of the Islamic world
De Susannah-tradition: interreligious and transcultural transmission of motifs in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources
Arabic popular epics: structure and liguisitic and paleographic features
Wisdom literature
ancient Greek, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Latin, modern Greek
Gog and Magog. The Clans of Chaos in World Literature. Eds. A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, F. Doufikar-Aerts and S. Mc Glinn, (Purdue University Press) Amsterdam / West Lafayette 2007, (2nd ed. The Embodiments of Evil, forthcoming 2012).
Alexander Magnus Arabicus. A Survey of the Alexander Tradition Through Seven Centuries, from Pseudo-Callisthenes to Suri, Mediaevalia Groningana 13 n.s., (Peeters Publishers) Louvain 2010.
"The Last Days of Alexander" in a popular Romance of Alexander, The Ancient Novel and Beyond, reds. S. Panayotakis, M. Zimmerman, W. Keulen, (Brill) Leiden/Boston 2003, 23-35.
"Alexander the Flexible Friend. Some Reflections on the Representation of Alexander the Great in the Arabic Alexander Romance", Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 55, 3-4 (2003), 195-210.
"Sirat Al-Iskandar: an Arabic Popular Romance of Alexander", Oriente Moderno, Studies on Arabic Epics, ed. G. Canova, 22, 2 (83) n.s. (2003), 505-520.
"Dogfaces, Snake-tongues, and the Wall against Gog and Magog", Gog and Magog. The Clans of Chaos in World Literature, eds. A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, F.C.W. Doufikar-Aerts and S. McGlinn, (Purdue University Press) Amsterdam/West Lafayette 2007, 37-52.
"Aristotle and Alexander: the never-ending question(s)", The Treasure of Tabriz. The Great Il-Khanid Compendium, Iranian Studies Series, eds. A.A. Seyed-Gohrab & S. McGlinn, (Purdue University Press) Amsterdam/West Lafayette 2007, 245-255.
"Gharâ'ib or 'Ajâ'ib, that's the Question. Vocalized Script in Two Arabic Romances of Alexander", Moyen Arabe et variétés mixtes de l?Arabe à travers l?histoire. Actes du premier colloque international (Louvain-la-Neuve, 10-14 mai 2004), eds. J. Lentin and J. Grand'Henry, (Peeters Publishers) Louvain 2008, 165-181.
"Dionysus, Enoch and Zakhraf: Deity, Prophet and King of the Jinn. Metamorphoses of the Golden Letter", in: Medioevo Romanzo e Orientale Temi e Motivi Epico-Cavallereschi fra Oriente e Occidente, edd. G. Lalomia and A. Pioletti, (Rubbettino Editore) Catania 2010, pp. 115-128.
"A letter in Bits and Pieces: The Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem Arabica. A First Edition with Translation Based on Four 16th-18th Century Manuscripts", Writings and Writing from another World and another Era in honour of J.J. Witkam, edd. R. Kerr and T. Milo, (Archetype) Cambridge, 2010, pp. 91-115.
"Afin que jamais il ne tombe dans l'oubli: l'influence arabe sur l'image d'Alexandre médiévale européenne", L'historiographie médiévale d'Alexandre, ed. C. Gaullier-Bougassas, (Brepols) Turnhout, 2011, pp. 105-114.
"Susanna and Her Sisters. The virtuous Lady Motif in Sacred Tradition and its Representation in Art, Secular Writing and Popular Narrative", Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel, vol. 2. Eds. M.P. Futre Pinheiro and S. J. Harrison. In: Ancient Narrative suppl.14.2, (Barkhuis Publishing & Groningen University Library) Groningen, 2011, pp. 19-30.
"King Midas' Ears on Alexander's Head: In Search of the Afro-Asiatic Alexander Cycle", The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East, eds. R. Stoneman, K. Erickson and Ian Netton. In: Ancient Narrative suppl. 15, (Barkhuis Publishing & Groningen University Library) Groningen, 2012, pp. 61-79.
Beyond the European Myth. In Search of the Afro-Asiatic Alexander Cylce and the Transnational Migration of Ideas and Concepts of Culture and Identity.
Multidisciplinary, multiligual and diachronic research project, including Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Ethiopic, Turkic languages of Central Asia, Malay and Mongolian.
VIDI grant scheme research project, NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), 2012 – 2017
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Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature
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