Irene van Renswoude

Head of Research Group Knowledge and Art Practices

Research group Knowledge and Art Practices

Specialisation Textual culture of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, rhetoric, debate and censorship

Contact irene.van.renswoude@huygens.knaw.nl
+31 (0)20-2246908

Biography

Irene van Renswoude studied Language and Culture Studies in Utrecht, with a specialisation in medieval history and literature. She held various positions at Utrecht University. In 2004 she started a PhD programme in early medieval history at the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) On 6 June 2011 she was awarded a PhD (cum laude) for her thesis entitled: Licence to speak. The rhetoric of free speech in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (CUP forthcoming), for which she received the Praemium Erasmianum Research Award in 2012 and the Heineken Young Scientist Award for History in 2014. In addition, she has published on such subjects as censorship, debate and cultural constructions of identity. As of 2011 she works at the Huygens ING as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2015, she applied together with Mariken Teeuwen (PI), for a NWO-Free Competititon project titled ‘The Art of Reasoning: Techniques of Scientific Argumentation in the Medieval Latin West (c. 400- c. 1400)’. This project runs from June 2016- June 2020.

Research projects

Anonymous Knowledge

eCodicesNL

The Art of Reasoning

2017

van Renswoude, I. & de Jong, M. (2017). Introduction Carolingian cultures of dialogue and debate. Early Medieval Europe, 27(1), 6-18. Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12183

van Renswoude, I. (2017). The art of disputation: dialogue, dialectic and debate around 800. Early Medieval Europe, 25(1), 38-53. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.12185/full

2014

van Renswoude, I. & Kramer, R. (2014). Dissens, Debatte und Diskurs. Kirche und Imperium im Karolingerreich. Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Spring/summer 2014, 22-27.

2023

Brouwer, J. & van Renswoude, I. (2023). 'Dat het beslagh noch tay om de lepel blijft': Het oudste recept voor Nederlandse oliebollen? In J. Brouwer, M. van Erp, M. Hendriksen, R. Ibáñez Martín, O. Leonhard, & I. van Renswoude (Eds.), Wat schaft de pot?: Eetcultuur in Nederland door de jaren heen (pp. 114-129). Uitgeverij Sterck & De Vreese.

Brouwer, J. van Renswoude, I. van Erp, M. Hendriksen, M. Ibáñez Martín, R. & Leonhard, O. (2023). Inleiding. In J. Brouwer, M. van Erp, M. Hendriksen, R. Ibáñez Martín, O. Leonhard, & I. van Renswoude (Eds.), Wat schaft de pot?: Eetcultuur in Nederland door de jaren heen Uitgeverij Sterck & De Vreese.

2019

van Renswoude, I. (Accepted/In press). Crass insults: Ad hominem attacks and rhetorical conventions. In U. Heil (Ed.), Formation of European Christian Identity in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (Millennium Studien). de Gruyter.

2018

van Renswoude, I. & Steinova, E. (2018). The annotated Gottschalk. Critical signs and control of heterodoxy in the Carolingian age. In W. Pezé, P. Chambert-Protat, J. Delmulle, & J. Thompson (Eds.), La controverse carolingienne sur la prédestination: histoire, textes, manuscrits (pp. 243-70). (Haut Moyen Age; Vol. 32). Brepols Publishers.

2017

Teeuwen, M. J. & van Renswoude, I. (2017). Introduction. In M. J. Teeuwen, & I. van Renswoude (Eds.), The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing (pp. 1-10). (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy; No. 38). Brepols Publishers.

van Renswoude, I. (2017). The censor's rod. Textual criticism, judgment and canon formation in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In M. Teeuwen, & I. van Renswoude (Eds.), The annotated book in the early middle ages: Practices of reading and writing (pp. 587-627). (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy; Vol. 38). Brepols Publishers.

van Renswoude, I. (2017). The censor’s wand.Textual criticism, judgment and canon formation in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In M. Teeuwen, & I. van Renswoude (Eds.), The Annotated Book in the early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing (pp. 587-627). (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy ; Vol. 38). Brepols Publishers.

2016

van Renswoude, I. (2016). Behoud het boek. In Opening the book on open access. What researchers think, translated from the Dutch. Original title: Open boek over open access. Onderzoekers aan het woord. (pp. 40-41). Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW). https://www.knaw.nl/shared/resources/actueel/publicaties/pdf/20160404-open-boek-over-open-access

van Renswoude, I. & Raaijmakers, J. (2016). The ruler as referee in theological debates: Reccared and Charlemagne. In R. Meens, D. van Espelo, J. Raaijmakers, B. van den Hoven van Genderen, I. van Renswoude, & C. van Rhijn (Eds.), Religious Franks. Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong (pp. 50-70). Manchester University Press.

2014

van Renswoude, I. & Baumgartner, C. (2014). Censorship, Free Speech and Religion. In Controversies in Contemporary Religions: vol 2: Debates in the Public Square and Ethical Issues (1 ed. Vol. 2, pp. 123-151). Article 6 Praeger.

Teeuwen, M. J. & van Renswoude, I. (2014). Voorpublicatie, censuur en zelfscensuur in Oudheid en Middeleeuwen. Of: hoe een auteur zich kan wapenen tegen openbare kritiek en straf. In J. Gabriëls, I. Huysman, T. van Kalmthout, & R. Sluijter (Eds.), In vriendschap en vertrouwen. Cultuurhistorische essays over confidentialiteit (pp. 241-256). Verloren.

2013

van Renswoude, I. (2013). License to Speak. The Rhetoric of Free speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In A. Vandenbroucke, J. Bouterse, L. O. Fresco, & T. Goldschmidt (Eds.), The Cultural Significance of the Natural Sciences (Praemium Erasmianum Yearbook 2012) (pp. 49-50). Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.

2020

Teeuwen, M. J. van Renswoude, I. & O'Daly, I. (2020). The Art of Reasoning in Medieval Manuscripts. https://art-of-reasoning.huygens.knaw.nl/

2018

van Renswoude, I. (2019). The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rhetoric-of-free-speech-in-late-antiquity-and-the-early-middle-ages/37FE8C596D9C4D1812F1A6C3188C52DC#fndtn-information

2017

Teeuwen, M. J. (Ed.), & van Renswoude, I. (2017). The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy; No. 38). Brepols Publishers.

2012

Teeuwen, M. J. van Renswoude, I. & Raaijmakers, J. (2012). Karolingische Klöster. Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation International Conference in the Lorsch Museum Centre Lorsch, 31 October-2 November, 2012. (AHF-Information). Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Forschungseinrichtungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

2023

Brouwer, J. van Renswoude, I. van Erp, M. Leonhard, O. Hendriksen, M. & Ibáñez Martín, R. (Eds.) (2023). Wat schaft de pot? Eetcultuur in Nederland door de jaren heen. Uitgeverij Sterck & De Vreese.

2016

van Renswoude, I. Meens, R. van Espelo, D. Raaijmakers, J. van Rhijn, C. & van den Hoven van Genderen, B. (Eds.) (2016). Religious Franks. Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms. Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong . Manchester University Press.

2023

M.J. Teeuwen, I. van Renswoude (2023). eCodicesNL: het bouwen van een prototype. 06-12-2023. (Middeleeuwse manuscripten en Linked Data)

2019

M.J. Teeuwen, I. van Renswoude (2019). Annotated Books of Dialectic and Rhetoric: the Art of Reasoning in the Margin. 07-06-2019. (Glossing from a comparative perspective)

2018

M.J. Teeuwen, I. van Renswoude (2018). In de marge: sporen van middeleeuwse lezers. 16-11-2018. (Latinistendag 2018)

I. van Renswoude (2018). Indexes, filters and the regulation of reading: bibliographical guides from the fourth to the sixteenth century. 20-06-2018. (Regulating knowledge in an entangled world)

I. van Renswoude (2018). The error detector. Tools to assess orthodoxy and identify deviance. 17-04-2018. (Rethinking Carolingian Reform)

I. van Renswoude (2018). Damnatio memoriae. Doomed to failure?. 01-03-2018. (Forgotten Knowledge)

I. van Renswoude (2018). Forbidden books. Readers' responses in manuscripts and early printed books (600-1600). 02-02-2018. (PhD Conference in Book History)

2017

I. van Renswoude (2017). "The Orthodoxy Test": Error lists and dialectical procedures before the universities. 02-11-2017. (Expert meeting Art of Reasoning)

I. van Renswoude (2017). Crass insults. The rhetorical effectiveness of ad hominem attacks. 06-07-2017. (Panel The Rhetoric of Emotion and the Politics of Debate in the Carolingian World, International medieval congress)

I. van Renswoude (2017). Sticks and stones and undertones. Florus of Lyon’s strategic abuse of Amalarius of Metz. 12-05-2017. (panel Twelve Angry Carolingians 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo)

2016

I. van Renswoude (2016). title paper ‘What not to read. Lists of ‘suspicious’ books before the Index’ (500-1500)'.. 01-09-2016. (51. Deutscher Historikertag, Hamburg 20-23 sept. 2016. )

I. van Renswoude (2016). title paper: Banned books before the Index. 01-07-2016. (International Medieval Congress)

I. van Renswoude (2016). Forbidden knowledge: censorship and cultural regulation in premodern Europe. 17-03-2016.

2015

I. van Renswoude (2015). International Medieval Congress, Leeds. 06-07-2015. (International Medieval Congress)

I. van Renswoude (2015). Practices of censorship and the transmission of heterodox texts. 04-06-2015. (Early Medieval Practices of Reading and Writing)

I. van Renswoude (2015). Stop het geweld. Kritiek op oorlogsvoering en onderdrukking. 23-03-2015. (Week van de Klassieken)

I. van Renswoude (2024). title paper: Pelagius unchained. Censorship in premodern Europe (800-1800). 23-04-2024. (Religiöses Wissen an Diskursgrenzen)

2014

I. van Renswoude (2014). Practices of censorship in early medieval Europe. 01-12-2014. (lezing voor de studenten, promovendi en postdocs van het Graduiertenkolleg Religiöses Wissen im Vormodernen (800-1800), Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Tübingen)

2013

I. van Renswoude (2013). Good books to read in prison. 16-12-2013. (conference Historiographies of Identity. History and Identity Towards the End of the First Millennium, Vienna)

I. van Renswoude (2013). Burn after reading. Censorship in the margins of late antique and early medieval manuscripts. 27-10-2013. (conference Memory and Power, Tübingen)

I. van Renswoude (2013). The Matrix reloaded. Late antique models for early medieval debates. 03-07-2013. (International Medieval Congress)

I. van Renswoude (2013). The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages I and II. 03-07-2013. (International Medieval Congress)

I. van Renswoude (2013). The Bern Master. 30-05-2013. (expert meeting research project Marginal Scholarship)

I. van Renswoude (2013). Dissens, Debatte und Diskurs. 10-04-2013. (Ring Vorlesung, Vorlesungsreihe Visions of Community. Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, Vienna)

2012

I. van Renswoude (2012). Dial D for Debate: Religious Controversies and Social Concerns in the 9th century. 10-07-2012. (International Medieval Congress)

I. van Renswoude (2012). The Control of Christian Discourse in the Carolingian Period. 19-06-2012. (Conference 'Ethnicity and Christian Discourse in the Early Middle Ages. Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion.', Vienna)

2011

I. van Renswoude (2011). 'There was a time speech was my life'. Silence and self-reflection in Christian rhetoric.. 14-07-2011. (International Medieval Congress)

2018

I. van Renswoude (2018). De canon van Nederland. 14-09-2018. (KB-Café)

I. van Renswoude (2018). Censuur is ook maar een mening. 19-06-2018. (Geheime kennis: censuur en zelf-censuur)

I. van Renswoude (2018). Gekriebel in de marge. 20-04-2018. (Thiele- dag)

2017

I. van Renswoude (2017). De sociale gevolgen van mediarevoluties. 28-11-2017. (Gala van de Wetenschap)

2023

Teeuwen, M. J. van Renswoude, I. Schilling, R. Zeeman, R. H. M. van Daalen, S. Windhouwer, M. van Wouw, L. & Meijer, K. (2023). eCodicesnl. Website https://ecodices.nl/

2015

van Renswoude, I. & Baumgartner, C. (2015). Heresy. In R. E. Segal, & K. von Stuckrad (Eds.), The Vocabulary for Study of Religion (pp. 126-158). Brill. http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/vocabulary-study-religion-3-vols