Irene van Renswoude
Biographic Data
| ID | 6574429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene van Renswoude |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | van Renswoude |
| SIGNATURE | VAN RENSWOUDE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9639-6633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
After Digitization, What More
This article explores the impact and challenges of digitizing medieval manuscripts. Initially celebrated for democratizing access to cultural heritage, digitization has yet to fully realize its potential in reaching broader, more socially diverse audiences. Accessibility remains constrained by factors including the digital divide and the specialized nature of online manuscript portals. Central to the discussion is the material turn in digitizatio…
Eingegangene Bücher
The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the Renaissance, when people finally learned to think and speak for themselves again. Challenging this tenacious image, Irene van Renswoude reveals that there was room for political criticism and dissent …
Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages
The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages
The art of disputation
It has often been noted that argumentation in the early Middle Ages was mainly based on written authority, while dialectical modes of reasoning were held in suspicion. Towards the end of the eighth century, however, dialectic was back in vogue at the court of Charlemagne. Logical reasoning played a significant role in theological discussions initiated by the court. This article explores the ‘rules of engagement’ for conducting a debate, and addre…
Introduction Carolingian cultures of dialogue, debate and disputation
This collection of articles on the theme of Carolingian cultures of dialogue and debate may seem a contradiction in terms. After all, it has recently been argued that by the end of the fourth century, Christianity had created authoritative structures of knowledge in which public disputation was replaced by catechism-like exchanges. This also spelled the end of classical dialogue, that is, the searching and open-ended exchange of ideas as it had b…
Ego Trouble
Identity can be seen as a complex interface between the individual and society, whereby in each period of history the scope of individual identification has been dealt with in different ways and defined by different parameters. Conflicts and disruptions, failure and longing for change are unavoidable elements of this process. This volume deals with a number of authors of the Middle Ages, writing between the 5th and the 11th centuries, whose works…
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Ego Trouble
Identity can be seen as a complex interface between the individual and society, whereby in each period of history the scope of individual identification has been dealt with in different ways and defined by different parameters. Conflicts and disruptions, failure and longing for change are unavoidable elements of this process. This volume deals with a number of authors of the Middle Ages, writing between the 5th and the 11th centuries, whose works…
The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages
The art of disputation
It has often been noted that argumentation in the early Middle Ages was mainly based on written authority, while dialectical modes of reasoning were held in suspicion. Towards the end of the eighth century, however, dialectic was back in vogue at the court of Charlemagne. Logical reasoning played a significant role in theological discussions initiated by the court. This article explores the ‘rules of engagement’ for conducting a debate, and addre…
Introduction Carolingian cultures of dialogue, debate and disputation
This collection of articles on the theme of Carolingian cultures of dialogue and debate may seem a contradiction in terms. After all, it has recently been argued that by the end of the fourth century, Christianity had created authoritative structures of knowledge in which public disputation was replaced by catechism-like exchanges. This also spelled the end of classical dialogue, that is, the searching and open-ended exchange of ideas as it had b…
Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages
The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the Renaissance, when people finally learned to think and speak for themselves again. Challenging this tenacious image, Irene van Renswoude reveals that there was room for political criticism and dissent …
Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Eingegangene Bücher
After Digitization, What More
This article explores the impact and challenges of digitizing medieval manuscripts. Initially celebrated for democratizing access to cultural heritage, digitization has yet to fully realize its potential in reaching broader, more socially diverse audiences. Accessibility remains constrained by factors including the digital divide and the specialized nature of online manuscript portals. Central to the discussion is the material turn in digitizatio…
History (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · History and criticism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)