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Open Access (see https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-48561-9\_1)
Link: first page (https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12475)
Open Access (see: https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12475)
Link (paywall) https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498785\_009
Open Access (see https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003138730-56)
Link (first page): https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/MADOC2023.3-4.001.FLIE
Open Access (go to https://doi.org/10.1515/fmst-2024-0004), 2024
Open Access (go to: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-48561-9\_6), 2024
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 34:4, 2020
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 34:3 (herdrukt in 34:4), 2020
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 34:2, 2020
Madoc. Tijdschrijft over de Middeleeuwen 34:1, 2020
Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 33:2, 2019
Eine neue Geschichte der alten Sachsen. Eine neue Geschichte für Niedersachsen , 2019
Journal of Medieval History, 2021
Merovingian letter-writing is traditionally studied by calling on a dozen or so high prolife lett... more Merovingian letter-writing is traditionally studied by calling on a dozen or so high prolife letter collections. This article turns to a different source: Gregory of Tours’ Histories, the foremost work of history-writing to survive from sixth-century Gaul. By studying Gregory’s narrative descriptions of letters this article seeks to shed new light on three aspects of Merovingian epistolary culture that have proved difficult to approach solely through the epistolary evidence: first, the typological variety of letters used in Merovingian Gaul, which extended far beyond the literary compositions dominating the letter collections; second, the complex practices surrounding letter delivery, such as the use of messengers, oral performance and strategies of secret communication; and finally, the repurposing of letters after their initial moment of delivery, which includes recirculation of old letters as sources of evidence and persuasion, but also covers the way Gregory himself came to employ letters as a narrative device.
NB: please see the link for the full article (open access): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03044181.2021.1893800?src=
Al Masāq, 2019
This article studies Latin civic discourse in relation to the political and legal concepts of the... more This article studies Latin civic discourse in relation to the political and legal concepts of the citizen and citizenship, and concentrates on the influence of Christianity on the development of this discourse in late-imperial Rome. While the concepts of civis and civitas gradually lost their political and legal value, the ancient Latin vocabulary in which these concepts are expressed did not disappear but acquired new contextual meaning and situational application. We will present this development in fourth-and fifth-century Rome by discussing two different yet closely related corpora of source texts, comparing the pastoral-theological sermons of the Roman bishop Leo I (440-461) with the imperial laws collected in the Theodosian Code. The juxtaposition of these corpora shows a striking similarity in the Christian appropriation of civic discourse, serving to develop and express new, religiously founded forms of belonging to as well as exclusion from the civic community in city and empire. ARTICLE HISTORY
Forthcoming
A short analysis (in Dutch) of two late-Carolingian fragments of Gregory the Great's Dialogues, c... more A short analysis (in Dutch) of two late-Carolingian fragments of Gregory the Great's Dialogues, currently in Utrecht: HUA Inv. 216-648 and UBU Hs. Fr. 8.1.
Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen, 2016
Open Access (see https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-48561-9\_1)
Link: first page (https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12475)
Open Access (see: https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12475)
Link (paywall) https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498785\_009
Open Access (see https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003138730-56)
Link (first page): https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/MADOC2023.3-4.001.FLIE
Open Access (go to https://doi.org/10.1515/fmst-2024-0004), 2024
Open Access (go to: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-48561-9\_6), 2024
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 34:4, 2020
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 34:3 (herdrukt in 34:4), 2020
Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 34:2, 2020
Madoc. Tijdschrijft over de Middeleeuwen 34:1, 2020
Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 33:2, 2019
Eine neue Geschichte der alten Sachsen. Eine neue Geschichte für Niedersachsen , 2019
Journal of Medieval History, 2021
Merovingian letter-writing is traditionally studied by calling on a dozen or so high prolife lett... more Merovingian letter-writing is traditionally studied by calling on a dozen or so high prolife letter collections. This article turns to a different source: Gregory of Tours’ Histories, the foremost work of history-writing to survive from sixth-century Gaul. By studying Gregory’s narrative descriptions of letters this article seeks to shed new light on three aspects of Merovingian epistolary culture that have proved difficult to approach solely through the epistolary evidence: first, the typological variety of letters used in Merovingian Gaul, which extended far beyond the literary compositions dominating the letter collections; second, the complex practices surrounding letter delivery, such as the use of messengers, oral performance and strategies of secret communication; and finally, the repurposing of letters after their initial moment of delivery, which includes recirculation of old letters as sources of evidence and persuasion, but also covers the way Gregory himself came to employ letters as a narrative device.
NB: please see the link for the full article (open access): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03044181.2021.1893800?src=
Al Masāq, 2019
This article studies Latin civic discourse in relation to the political and legal concepts of the... more This article studies Latin civic discourse in relation to the political and legal concepts of the citizen and citizenship, and concentrates on the influence of Christianity on the development of this discourse in late-imperial Rome. While the concepts of civis and civitas gradually lost their political and legal value, the ancient Latin vocabulary in which these concepts are expressed did not disappear but acquired new contextual meaning and situational application. We will present this development in fourth-and fifth-century Rome by discussing two different yet closely related corpora of source texts, comparing the pastoral-theological sermons of the Roman bishop Leo I (440-461) with the imperial laws collected in the Theodosian Code. The juxtaposition of these corpora shows a striking similarity in the Christian appropriation of civic discourse, serving to develop and express new, religiously founded forms of belonging to as well as exclusion from the civic community in city and empire. ARTICLE HISTORY
Forthcoming
A short analysis (in Dutch) of two late-Carolingian fragments of Gregory the Great's Dialogues, c... more A short analysis (in Dutch) of two late-Carolingian fragments of Gregory the Great's Dialogues, currently in Utrecht: HUA Inv. 216-648 and UBU Hs. Fr. 8.1.
Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen, 2016
Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming)
History of Humanities, 2017
History of Humanities, 2017
Open Access (see https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-48561-9), 2024
