Gewoon hoogleraar middeleeuwse geschiedenis/Full Professor of medieval history @ugent | Please follow me @stvanderputten.bsky.social.

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JOB ALERT Anne Breitbarth and I are looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to work with us on our interdisciplinary project "Language Variation in Latin Hagiography of the Long Tenth Century". Please send any suitable candidates our way! linguistlist.org/issues/36/7…

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Enough is enough. Please follow me @stvanderputten.bsky.social.
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Out now: Steven Vanderputten, Encased in Silk. The Women of Bouxières and Their Archives, in Laura L. Gathagan and Charles Insley eds., Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, c. 900-1300, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2025, pp. 271-288.
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Out now, a study on the earliest rule for male recluses... derived from female practices! Steven Vanderputten, Grimlaicus’s Regula Solitariorum and Male Reclusion at the Turn of the First Millennium, Studi medievali 65 (2024), 523-549.
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The FWO awarded me a funded research project titled Hagiographic entanglements of the Long 10th Century! Anyone interested in doing a funded PhD project @ugent at the intersection of visual network analysis, hagiological research 1/2
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and research into how religious communities and their social environment established and maintained connections beyond the local in an era of societal fragmentation is very welcome to get in touch! 2/2
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Next week I'll be co-organizing an international conference titled "Shaping and Living Norms in Medieval Monasticism" in Milan/Chiaravalle: academia.edu/126055453/Inter…

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Félicitations ! et pour rester encore un peu avec les chanoinesses, merci pour la belle enquête dont vous avez partagé les résultats ds la conférence de ce soir.
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Wow! The Sixteenth Century Society has awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for best article on the history of France and its empire in the Early Modern Era (1450 - 1750)) to my piece on Jean Mabillon and the history of the secular canonesses. sixteenthcentury.org/roelker…... Je

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The highly anticipated "Judith" exhibition in the St. Peter's Abby in Ghent is now officially open! This exhibition accompanies the new Brepols book Judith of West Francia, Carolingian Princess and First Countess of Flanders. For more info, go to bit.ly/3YanZ3N
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Today local press were given a preview by researchers @StVanderputten , @DeGrooteI & @et_on_verra, ahead of exhibition ‘Judith. A Carolingian Princess in Ghent?’, opening Friday in @historischehuiz (St. Peter’s Abbey). @ugent @ArcheOsUgent @ugentlw 🤩
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Gave a public lecture with deeply revisionist undertones on the 1000th anniversary of the reform of Marchiennes abbey. Slightly baffled to see a huge banner with my name on it. Delighted by the inscription on the church in Marchiennes where I gave my lecture.
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Out soon!
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Looking for PhD holders in medieval history (religious/ecclesiastical topics, Latin West 800-1200) who are interested in applying for FWO postdoc fellowship of 3 years (junior/senior, dl 1 Dec.). Come and work with me @UGent!
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International candidates are most welcome to apply!
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Just as a clarification: junior fellows can have a maximum of 3 years experience, senior ones 6 years. Especially candidates in the senior category are most cordially invited to contact me.
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Very grateful to Shigeto Kikuchi and Hiroki Yumioka for giving me the opportunity to publish my study on community un/building in the tenth-century Life of John of Gorze in Japanese! Out now (in OA) in the University of Tokyo’s Clio journal: repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac….

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Pleased with superb sessions we organized for #IMC2024: Moral and Legal Defences of Property in High Medieval Monasticism and Losers and Outcasts of Monastic Reform 1-3. Recordings can be viewed through this link : imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/202…. @History_UGent @ugent @IMC_Leeds
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