Project Leader

Dr. Robert Flierman is assistant professor in Medieval Latin. He has published a monograph on the continental Saxons in the early Middle Ages: Saxon Identities AD 150–900 (London: Bloomsbury, 2017) and has co-edited the volume City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400-1500. A Comparative Approach (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). From 2023 onwards, he leads the NWO VIDI project on the pragmatics of medieval letter-delivery, entitled ‘Lettercraft and Epistolary Performance in Early Medieval Europe’.

Currently he is also the chair of the Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies.