Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE

Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE

Master-apprentices

Several research apprentices have joined the lettercraft project for the first two blocks of 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, to work on the project database. Each apprentice is working on their own Merovingian hagiographical or historiographical text(s).

Apprentices 2025-2026

Ger Sierink is a second-year research master’s student in the Medieval Literature track of Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University. His research mainly focusses on questions of transmission and performance of 12th-century Old French epic literature, branching out into hagiographical plays and the history of translation.

Texts: Gregory of Tours’ Gloria martyrum & Gloria confessorum, Mitrias of Aix

Wouter Hofland, BA BSc, is a second year RMA student of Ancient History in Leiden, interested in the transition from the Roman to the post-Roman world in the late antique West. He mainly focusses on late antique perceptions of a Roman and Christian identity.
Texts: Liber Historiae Francorum, Libri de virtutibus sancti Martini episcopi, Liber de passione et virtutibus sancti Juliani martyris, Vita  Martini, Commemoratorium vitae sancti Severini, Chronicle of Fredegar.

Apprentices 2024-2025

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.

Alexander de Graaf is a master’s student of Medieval history at Utrecht University. His research is mainly focused on the late Merovingian and early Carolingian period, with a particular focus on letters, gifts and saints.

Texts: the Passio Praeiecti and the two lives of Leodegar.