CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Medieval History
Department of History / OGC (UCMS)
Universiteit Utrecht
Kromme Nieuwegracht 66
NL-3512 HL Utrecht The Netherlands
| Office Telephone: | ** 31 30 2537858 |
| Office Fax: | ** 31 30 2537858 |
| Active email: | marco.mostert@let.uu.nl |
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
History of communication in the middle ages
History of mentalities
History of medieval scholarship
Religious history of the earlier middle ages
History of libraries
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
King Edmund of East Anglia (+ 869); chapters in historical criticism (Ann Arbor, 1986).
The political theology of Abbo of Fleury. A study of the ideas about society and law of the tenth century monastic reform movement (Hilversum, 1987: Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen [Medieval Studies and Sources] 2).
The library of Fleury. A provisional list of manuscripts (Hilversum, 1989: Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen [Medieval Studies and Sources] 3).
The Life and Times of Guglielmo Libri (1802-1869), scientist, patriot, scholar, journalist and thief. A nineteenth-century story (Hilversum, 1995) (with P.A. MACCIONI RUJU).
New Approaches to Medieval Communication (Turnhout, 1999: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 1) edited [a second edn. Will be published in 2004].
Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages (Turnhout, 2003: Studies in the Early Middle Ages 7), edited (with P.S. BARNWELL).
Organizing the Written Word: Scripts, Manuscripts and Texts. Papers from the First Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy organized by the `Pionier Project Verschriftelijking', Utrecht, 5-7 June 1997 (Turnhout, 2004: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 2) edited.
Spoken and Written Language: Relations between Latin and the Vernaculars in the Earlier Middle Ages. Papers from the Second Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, organized by the `Pionier Project Verschriftelijking', Utrecht, 24-26 June 1999 (Turnhout, 2004: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 4) edited (with M.D. GARRISON, A.P. ORBÁN and W.S. VAN EGMOND).
Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication. Papers from the Third Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, organized by the `Pionier Project Verschriftelijking', Utrecht, 7-9 December 2000 (Turnhout, 2004: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 8) edited (with M. HAGEMAN).
The Development of Literate Mentalities in East Central Europe. Papers from the Fourth Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, organized by the `Pionier Project Verschriftelijking', Utrecht, 28-30 June 2001 (Turnhout, 2004: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 9) edited (with A.B. ADAMSKA).
Trust in Writing (Turnhout, 2004) edited (with P. SCHULTE en I. VAN RENSWOUDE).
Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400-1000 (Turnhout, 2005) edited (with G. DE NIE, H. KESSLER and K. MORRISON).
The Dream of the Library. The Quest for Complete Knowledge (London, 2004).
Medieval Studies. A Research Bibliography (Turnhout, 2005: Medieval Workshop 1).
Les oeuvres d'Abbon de Fleury, 1, Les oeuvres politiques, édition, traduction et commentaire par R.-H. BAUTIER, G. LABORY, M. MOSTERT et al. (Paris, 2004: Sources d'histoire médiévale publiées par l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes).
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Please see above, edition of conference proceedings on Spoken and Written Language.
History of the Medieval Book:
Please see above, edition of conference proceedings on Organizing the Written Word and The Dream of the Library.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Other Possible Themes:
The history of medieval communication (see a.o. New Approaches to Medieval Communication)
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Babette Hellemans, 13th c. Bibles moralisées
Irene van Renswoude, Lotharingian historiography (10th-11th c.)
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in possible exchange of PhD students through the research master in Medieval Studies (Please see http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/homelet/master/medieval/ [under construction])
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Please see http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/homelet/master/medieval/index.htm
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