research unit for the study of medieval religious communities and communicative practices

Fellowships

 

 

 June 1 - July 10 2009                                                 

 Scott G. Bruce (Ph.D., Princeton University; Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder).

Scott Bruce is a historian of religion and culture in the early and central Middle Ages (ca. 400-1200). His research interests include monasticism, hagiography, Latin poetry, and western perceptions of Islam. His first book, Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition (c. 900-1200) was published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press (UK). This book explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. He is currently at work on a book-length study of the representation of the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet in Cluniac hagiography. In relation to this project, he is also preparing a critical edition and translation of the earliest Life of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny (BHL 5180).

 June 29 - July 30 2010                                                   

Diane Reilly (Ph.D. University of Toronto; Associate Professor, Indiana University)

Diane Reilly is an art historian specialized in the study of the Romanesque illuminated manuscript and the process and functions of text illustration in monastic culture. She has published extensively on these subjects, most notably in her book The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible (Leiden, 2006). Her research project during her stay as a BOF-fellow at Ghent University is entitled 'Rebutting and recording heresy in the eleventh-century Low Countries: towards an understanding of clerical discourse on social and religious change'. This project will be carried out in collaboration with Steven Vanderputten.n of the earliest Life of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny (BHL 5180).

 1 September 2011 -29 February 2012


 

         
 

Andrew Turner (Ph.D. University of Melbourne; Postdoctoral fellow, University of Melbourne)

Andrew Turner's main research interests include editing Latin texts from manuscript, and understanding the constraints placed on ancient writers, particularly Roman writers of the early second century, by the current political situation. He is in the process of publishing a digital edition of Terence's Comedies, and has previously published (with Bernard Muir) Eadmer's Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald (Oxford, 2006). His research project during his stay as a VLAC-fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts is entitled 'Classical scholarship in Mediaeval Flanders'. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Steven Vanderputten, who has also been granted a fellowship at the VLAC.roject will be carried out in collaboration with Steven Vanderputten.n of the earliest Life of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny (BHL 5180).

 

24 February - 24 March 2012                                                   

   Jörg Sonntag (Ph.D. Technische Universität Dresden; Postdoctoral fellow, FOVOG) 

   Jörg Sonntag is a historian of religion and culture. He is specialized in the study of monastic everyday life, rituals, and the pre-modern theory of symbols.In    his book Klosterleben im Spiegel des Zeichenhaften. Symbolisches Denken und Handeln hochmittelalterlicher Mönche zwischen Dauer und Wandel, Regel    und Gewohnheit (Berlin 2008), he took this phenomenon of the monastery as symbolic order into detailed consideration. Recently, Jörg Sonntag has    analyzed the potential for the innovation, reception, and transmission of games and sports and sought to clarify their ethical, political, and theological    meanings and messages within medieval society. His project during his stay as BOF-fellow at Ghent University is entitled ‘Cultural transfers in the Middle    Ages: monasticism as a generator and mediator of ‘secular’ practices of social interaction and entertainment (Western Europe, 11th-15th centuries)’. It will    be carried out in collaboration with Steven Vanderputten.

 

 

Guest researchers

1 - 31 August 2012               Nicholas Schroeder (Ph.D. Université Libre de Bruxelles; Postdoctroral fellow, ULB)