Ruben Buys is quickly establishing himself as an innovative scholar whose ground-breaking research on urban culture and vernacular knowledge-creation provides a theoretical structure for this research program, epitomized in his published dissertation, De kunst van het weldenken (The Art of Thinking Right) of 2009. He has also made important contributions to the influence of 16th-century spiritualists, such as Coornhert, upon Enlightenment approaches to reason and scriptural interpretation. His current research is focused on urban culture in the Low Countries in the first half of the 16th century, but this will continue to inform our analysis of the later sources.
Ruben Buys: Collaborator