Janneke Raaijmakers

Janneke Ellen Raaijmakers (Hilversum, 28 June 1973 - Utrecht, 2 May 2021)[1] was a Dutch historian of the Middle Ages who specialized in the formation of monastic communities and the role of religious objects in the cult of the saints, with a particular focus on Fulda and the Fulda monastery, founded by Saint Boniface.

Janneke Raaijmakers
Born28 June 1973
Hilversum, Netherlands
Died2 May 2021
Utrecht, Netherlands
Academic background
Alma materUtrecht University (B.A.)
University of Amsterdam (Ph.D.)
ThesisSacred Time, Sacred Space. History and Identity at the monastery of Fulda (744–856) (2003)
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval history
Sub-disciplineChristian monasticism

Raaijmakers received her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 2003; her dissertation, Sacred Time, Sacred Space. History and Identity at the monastery of Fulda (744–856), investigates the Fulda monastery[2] including the relics it acquired and their function,[3] and the monastery's position in the "sacred landscape" of the Carolingians.[4] Between 2005 and 2010 she did postdoctoral research on Saint Boniface and the role his life and work played in the building and transformation of various monastic communities. She has published on various aspects of monastic and religious life, including necrologies.[5] Her The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744 – c. 900 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 and offered a "multidimensional portrait of [this] influential monastery".[6][7]

Later in her career, Raaijmakers focused on the function of religious objects in the medieval West, particularly relics and their veneration. She was an editor of the Dutch history journal Madoc.[8] Raaijmakers died from cancer on 2 May 2021.[9]

References
  1. J.E. Raaijmakers, 1973 at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum.
  2. Zola, Alan G. (2008). Radbertus's Monastic Voice: Ideas about Monasticism at Ninth-century Corbie. p. 8. ISBN 9780549840299.
  3. Bolgia, Claudia (2006). "The Mosaics of Gregory IV at S. Marco, Rome: Papal Response to Venice, Byzantium, and the Carolingians". Speculum. 81 (1): 1–34. doi:10.1017/s0038713400019369. JSTOR 20463605. S2CID 154980669.
  4. Diem, Albrecht (2007). "Monks, Kings, and the Transformation of Sanctity: Jonas of Bobbio and the End of the Holy Man". Speculum. 82 (3): 521–59. doi:10.1017/s0038713400010241. JSTOR 20466000. S2CID 163124468.
  5. Coon, Lynda L. (2011). Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West. U of Pennsylvania P. pp. 269–70. ISBN 9780812204919.
  6. Coon, Lynda L. (2014). "Janneke Raaijmakers. The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744-c. 900". The American Historical Review. 119 (1): 230–31. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.1.230. ISSN 0002-8762.
  7. Sowerby, Richard (2013). "Review: Janneke Raaijmakers, The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744–c. 900". Speculum. 88 (4): 1144–45. doi:10.1017/S0038713413003230. ISSN 0038-7134.
  8. Raaijmakers, Janneke; Frank Brandsma (2005). "Interview Janneke Raaijmakers en Frank Brandsma Nadenken over emoties met Barbara Rosenwein". Madoc: 162–66.
  9. "In Memoriam Janneke Raaijmakers (1973-2021) - News - Utrecht University". www.uu.nl. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
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