Dr B. Roest (Bert)

Bert Roest (Ph.D. University of Groningen, 1996) teaches medieval history at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses in particular on the intellectual and institutional history of religious orders in the late medieval and early modern period. He also works on university history, late medieval and sixteenth-century preaching and religious indoctrination, and body history. In January 2015, he completed the activities for the NWO Research Project 'Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation'. Currently, he is collaborating with a number of International scholars on a project that focuses on the Franciscan preacher Giovanni da Capestrano (d. 1456), and he is writing a book on Franciscan Utopias (13th-17th cent.). In addition, he maintains the Franciscan Author Website (http://users.bart.nl/~roestb/franciscan/) and the Franciscan Women Internet Database (http://franwomen.sbu.edu/). For information on further scholarly output see also the list of publications (pdf file).