In Ecclesia Nostra: The Collatiehuis in Gouda and Its Lieux de Savoir RESEARCH PIETER H. BOONSTRA ABSTRACT CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Pieter H. Boonstra This article will show how the concept of lieux de savoir as theorized by Christian Jacob University of Groningen, NL provides an intriguing framework from which to examine the interactions between
[email protected] laypeople and religious professionals and the transmission of knowledge in the late medieval city, by applying it to the Collatiehuis in Gouda. Here, religious knowledge was shaped and communicated in the interaction between the Brothers of the Common KEYWORDS: Life and visiting laypeople. The separate rooms in which these interactions took spatiality; communication of place, as well as the location of the house within the city, influenced the circulation knowledge; collatio; lieux de of knowledge. Aside from this spatial approach, the article will also propose that the savoir texts used during these meetings can be considered their own lieux de savoir as they played an important role in shaping and communicating religious knowledge between TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: the lay and religious participants of the collatio. Boonstra, Pieter H. "In Ecclesia Nostra: The Collatiehuis in Gouda and Its Lieux de Savoir." Le foucaldien 7, no. 1 (2021): 5, 1–13. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.16995/lefou.93 1. INTRODUCTION Boonstra 2 Le foucaldien In the year 1445, a small community of Brothers of the Common Life took up residence in DOI: 10.16995/lefou.93 the Dutch city of Gouda, in a house located in the Spieringstraat. This community represented an urban branch of the Devotio moderna or Modern Devotion, the most renowned religious movement in the late medieval Low Countries.