Draft:Krijn Pansters



Krijn Pansters (Swalmen, June 14, 1975) is a Dutch historian and theologian in the field of the Middle Ages.

Pansters attended the gymnasium at the Bisschoppelijk College Broekhin. He studied history, theology and educational history (teacher training) in Nijmegen. He received his PhD from Radboud University on a study of cardinal virtues in the late Middle Ages and from Catholic University Leuven on a study of virtue in the writings of late medieval religious orders. He is a staff member of the Franciscan Study Center at Tilburg University and a lecturer in spirituality at that university. He is also a researcher in social spirituality at the Titus Brandsma Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen. He publishes in the field of the Christian tradition and spirituality, especially of the Friars Minor, Carthusians and Modern Devotion, and in particular in relation to virtue ethics and ecology. Pansters is founder of the Dutch translation series Middeleeuwse Monastieke Teksten. He is a member of several domestic and international associations and editorial boards in the field of medieval history and religion. He is president of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology (IGTM). and General Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Franciscan Studies of the blog franciscanconnections.com. He is also a councilor for the CDA (Christian Democratic Party) in the municipality of Beesel, the Netherlands.

Publications (selection):


 * Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self and Society, Berlin: De Gruyter 2024 (ed. Krijn Pansters & Anton ten Klooster).
 * Lesser Ethics: Morality as Goodness-in-Relationship, St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Publications 2023 (ed. Krijn Pansters & David B. Couturier).
 * Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries, Leiden: Brill 2020 (ed. Krijn Pansters).
 * Spiritual Morality: The Religious Orders and the Virtues, 1050-1300, unpublished dissertation, KU Leuven 2019.
 * Shaping Stability: The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages, Turnhout: Brepols 2016 (ed. Krijn Pansters & Abraham Plunkett-Latimer).
 * The Carthusians in the Low Countries: Studies in Monastic History and Heritage, Louvain: Peeters 2014 (ed. Krijn Pansters).
 * Franciscan Virtue: Spiritual Growth and the Virtues in Franciscan Literature and Instruction of the Thirteenth Century, Leiden: Brill 2012.