Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE

Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE

Master-apprentices

Apprentices 2024-2025

Several research apprentices have joined the lettercraft project for the first two blocks of 2024-2025, to work on the project database. Each apprentice is working on their own Merovingian hagiographical or historiographical text(s).

 

Jasper Leonora Kamermans, MSc is a masters student of Medieval and Early Modern history in Utrecht, interested in the social changes happening outside of cities in this large timespan. They are focusing on the hagiographies of female saints Bathild and Genevieve.

 

Seppe Snellenberg  – Kievit is a second years Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UU)student who focuses on the (European) medieval period. His main interest is researching how the wider public acces, use and discuss medieval history in (modern) public media such as videogames, books and cultural institutions like museums
Texts: Radegund (finished) and now Getrude of Nivelles.

 

Faye Kruithof is a second year student of the rMA Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University, following the Early Medieval Insular Studies track. Studying Latin, Old Irish, Old Norse, Middle Welsh and Old English, her main interests are intertextuality and early translations of texts from early medieval northwestern Europe.

Texts: Vita Sancti Columbani

 

Ellen Joosten is a master’s student of Medieval History at Utrecht University, specializing in medieval Iberia. Her research interests revolve around the themes of spatiality, movement, and stational liturgy. Having previously worked on the hagiography of Radegunde,

Texts: Historia Wambae regis.