Irene van Renswoude

Irene van Renswoude (born 1967) is professor by special appointment of Manuscripts and Cultural History, with a focus on the Middle Ages (500-1500), at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Humanities.[1][2][3]

She holds the Herman de la Fontaine Verwey Chair, a position established on behalf of the National Library of the Netherlands.[4]

Career

Under Mayke de Jong, she studied Language and Culture Studies in Utrecht, specialising in medieval history and literature. On 6 June 2011 she was awarded a PhD (cum laude) for her thesis entitled Licence to speak. The rhetoric of free speech in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In addition, she has published on such subjects as censorship, debate and cultural constructions of identity. From 2011 she worked at the Huygens ING as a postdoctoral researcher.[5] In 2015, she was awarded, together with Mariken Teeuwen, funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a project titled The Art of Reasoning: Techniques of Scientific Argumentation in the Medieval Latin West (c. 400- c. 1400). This project ran from June 2016 to June 2020.

Honours

She received the Praemium Erasmianum Research Award in 2012 for her dissertation.[6] and the Heineken Young Scientist Award for History in 2014

Selected publications

The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series Book 115 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).[7]

The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing, edited by Mariken Teeuwen and Irene van Renswoude. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 38 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).[8]

Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong, edited by Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Rob Meens, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude, Carine van Rhijn, (Manchester: Manchester University Press Manchester, 2017).

References
  1. LNVH. "Prof.dr. Irene van Renswoude". LNVH. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  2. "Irene van Renswoude". Huygens Instituut. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  3. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2023-02-22). "Prof. dr. I. (Irene) van Renswoude". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  4. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2018-07-24). "Irene van Renswoude named professor on Herman de la Fontaine Verwey chair". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  5. "Irene van Renswoude – Humanities Commons". Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  6. "Dissertatieprijswinnaars". Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  7. Renswoude, Irene van (September 2019). The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. doi:10.1017/9781139811941. ISBN 9781139811941. S2CID 204477874. Retrieved 2023-09-02. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  8. "Brepols - The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages". www.brepols.net. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
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