Irene van Renswoude
{{Short description|Dutch historian}}
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Irene van Renswoude (born 1967) is professor by special appointment of Manuscripts and Cultural History, with a focus on the Middle Ages (500–1500), at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Humanities.{{Cite web |last=LNVH |title=Prof.dr. Irene van Renswoude |url=https://www.lnvh.nl/a-2848/prof.dr.-irene-van-renswoude |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=LNVH |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Irene van Renswoude |url=https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/medewerkers/irene-van-renswoude-2/ |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=Huygens Instituut |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Amsterdam |first=Universiteit van |date=2023-02-22 |title=Prof. dr. I. (Irene) van Renswoude |url=https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/e/i.vanrenswoude/i.van-renswoude.html |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=University of Amsterdam |language=en}}
She holds the Herman de la Fontaine Verwey Chair, a position established on behalf of the National Library of the Netherlands.{{Cite web |last=Amsterdam |first=Universiteit van |date=2018-07-24 |title=Irene van Renswoude named professor on Herman de la Fontaine Verwey chair |url=https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/professor-appointments/2018/07/irene-van-renswoude-named-professor-on-herman-de-la-fontaine-verwey-chair.html |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=University of Amsterdam |language=en}}
Career
Under Mayke de Jong, she studied Language and Culture Studies in Utrecht, specialising in medieval history and literature. 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. In addition, she has published on such subjects as censorship, debate and cultural constructions of identity. From 2011 she worked at the Huygens ING as a postdoctoral researcher.{{Cite web |title=Irene van Renswoude – Humanities Commons |url=https://hcommons.org/members/irenevanrenswoude/ |access-date=2023-09-02 |language=en-US}} In 2015, she was awarded, together with Mariken Teeuwen, funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a project titled The Art of Reasoning: Techniques of Scientific Argumentation in the Medieval Latin West (c. 400- c. 1400). This project ran from June 2016 to June 2020.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
Honours
She received the Praemium Erasmianum Research Award in 2012 for her dissertation{{Cite web |title=Dissertatieprijswinnaars |url=https://erasmusprijs.org/en/research-prizes/irene-van-renswoude/ |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=Praemium Erasmianum Foundation |language=en-US}} and the Heineken Young Scientist Award for History in 2014
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |series= Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series |volume= 115 |last=Renswoude |first=Irene van |date=September 2019 |title=The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781139811941 |isbn=9781139811941 |s2cid=204477874 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book | title=The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages: Practices of Reading and Writing|editor1= Mariken Teeuwen |editor2= Irene van Renswoude|series=Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy|volume= 38 |place=Turnhout |publisher= Brepols |date=2018 |language=en}}
- {{ Cite book | title=Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong|editor1= Dorine van Espelo|editor2= Bram van den Hoven van Genderen|editor3= Rob Meens|editor4= Janneke Raaijmakers|editor5= Irene van Renswoude|editor6= Carine van Rhijn|place= Manchester|publisher= Manchester University Press |date= 2017}}
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