Ellen Joosten studied History at Radboud University Nijmegen, followed by a master’s degree in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Worlds at the same university and a research master’s degree in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University.
Her research focuses primarily on the medieval Iberian Peninsula and the unique liturgical tradition that developed there. In her thesis at Utrecht University, she investigated the liturgical reuse of hymns by the fourth-century poet Prudentius on the basis of an eleventh-century liturgical manuscript from the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos.
From 2025, she will be working at the Huygens Institute as a junior researcher in the Author Unknown project led by Irene van Renswoude and Carine van Rhijn, where she will be researching anonymity and authorship in manuscripts from medieval centers such as Fleury and Würzburg and working on a database.
