Dr L.S. van Raaij (Lenneke)

I am an assistant professor in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen and specialise in the period 800-1200. Especially cultural, intellectual and religious themes catch my eye. In particular, my interests include medieval manuscripts, ritual and liturgical texts, early and high medieval monasteries, and bishops and popes. I am working on broader research topics such as identity formation in local communities and the role saints play in this respect, but also on the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages.

I wrote my PhD thesis on the production of local liturgical texts in tenth-century Trier at the university of Exeter (UK). This research was conducted in cooperation with the HERA project: 'After Empire. Using and not using the past in the crisis of the Carolingian World (c. 900-1050).