Pleased with superb sessions we organized for #IMC2024: Moral and Legal Defences of Property in High Medieval Monasticism and Losers and Outcasts of Monastic Reform 1-3. Recordings can be viewed through this link : imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/meeti…. History Dept. UGent UGent IMC_Leeds

Out soon!

Gave a public lecture with deeply revisionist undertones on the 1000th anniversary of the reform of Marchiennes abbey. Slightly baffled to see a huge banner with my name on it. Delighted by the inscription on the church in Marchiennes where I gave my lecture.

Today local press were given a preview by researchers Steven Vanderputten , Isabelle De Groote & Dr. Jessica Palmer, ahead of exhibition ‘Judith. A Carolingian Princess in Ghent?’, opening Friday in Historische Huizen (St. Peter’s Abbey). UGent ArcheOs: UGent Lab for Biological Anthropology UGent LW 🤩

The highly anticipated "Judith" exhibition in the St. Peter's Abby in Ghent is now officially open! This exhibition accompanies the new Brepols book Judith of West Francia, Carolingian Princess and First Countess of Flanders. For more info, go to bit.ly/3YanZ3N

Wow! The Sixteenth Century Society has awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize for best article on the history of France and its empire in the Early Modern Era (1450 - 1750)) to my piece on Jean Mabillon and the history of the secular canonesses. sixteenthcentury.org/roelkerprize... Je

Steven Vanderputten Félicitations ! et pour rester encore un peu avec les chanoinesses, merci pour la belle enquête dont vous avez partagé les résultats ds la conférence de ce soir.

Next week I'll be co-organizing an international conference titled "Shaping and Living Norms in Medieval Monasticism" in Milan/Chiaravalle: academia.edu/126055453/Inte…

Out now, a study on the earliest rule for male recluses... derived from female practices! Steven Vanderputten, Grimlaicus’s Regula Solitariorum and Male Reclusion at the Turn of the First Millennium, Studi medievali 65 (2024), 523-549.

Out now: Steven Vanderputten, Encased in Silk. The Women of Bouxières and Their Archives, in Laura L. Gathagan and Charles Insley eds., Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, c. 900-1300, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2025, pp. 271-288.

JOB ALERT in medieval history/digital humanities: PhD (predoctoral) position at Ghent University in the research project "Hagiographical Entanglements of the Long Tenth Century": academia.edu/126960582/Vaca…

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JOB ALERT Anne Breitbarth and I are looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to work with us on our interdisciplinary project "Language Variation in Latin Hagiography of the Long Tenth Century". Please send any suitable candidates our way! linguistlist.org/issues/36/782/…