Drift 10
3512 BS Utrecht, Netherlands

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Early medieval religious culture
History of penance
Penitential texts and manuscripts


Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
- Het tripartite boeteboek. Overlevering en betekenis van vroegmiddeleeuwse biechtvoorschriften (met editie en vertaling van vier tripartita) (Hilversum 1994)

- 'Kanonisches Recht in Salzburg am Ende des 8. Jahrhunderts. Das Zeugnis des Paenitentiale Vindobonense B', Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte 113. Kanonistische Abteilung 82 (1996), pp. 13-34.

- 'The frequency and nature of early medieval penance', in: P. Biller, A. Minnis (ed.), Handling Sin. Confession in the Middle Ages, York Studies in Medieval Theology 2 (Woodbridge 1998) pp. 35-61

- 'The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law. The Collectio Vetus Gallica and the Collectio Hibernensis', in: Y. Hen, M. Innes (eds.), The Uses of the Past in early medieval Europe (Cambridge 2000), pp. 67-77.

- 'The oldest Manuscript witness of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis', Peritia 14 (2001), pp. 1-19.

- 'Eating animals in the early Middle Ages. Classifying the animal world and building group identities', in: A. Craeger, W.C. Jordan (eds.),The Animal/Human Boundary, (University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 2002), pp. 3-28.

- Yitzhak Hen, Rob Meens (eds.), The Bobbio Missal. Liturgy and religious culture in Merovingian Gaul, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 11 (Cambridge 2004)


WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Connections between Latin and the vernacular in pastoral care.

History of the Medieval Book:
Study of manuscripts used in pastoral care, contributor to the 'History of the Irish book.'

Medieval Chronicle Studies:


Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Adriaan Gaastra: Italian penitentials of the 10th and 11th centuries.


STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students and staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in possibly conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.


MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Tutorial religious history of the Middle Ages