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- Steven Vanderputten (°1976) is a full professor in the history of the early and high Middle Ages at Ghent University. His research focuses on the development, societal embedding and culture of religious groups in the high medieval West (c. 800-1200). It covers a wide range of subjects, including memory and the shaping of collective identities, conflict management, rituals and public behavior, oral and written practices of communication, leadership, institutional development, gender, and discourses and realities of ecclesiastical and religious reform. His work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes, and he has edited several collective volumes. Key monographs include Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100 (Cornell University Press, 2013), Reform, conflict and the shaping of corporate identities. Collected studies on Benedictine monasticism, 1050-1150. (LIT Verlag, 2015) and Imagining Religious leadership in the Middle Ages. Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform (Cornell University Press, 2015). +++ Vanderputten currently holds a Research Professorship of Ghent University's Special Research Fund. His fellowships include Clare Hall (Cambridge University, 2003), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, 2005), the Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (Eichstätt, 2008), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Wassenaar, 2009-2010), the Flemish Academic Center (Brussels, 2011-2012), and the Institute for Advanced Study of Indiana University (Bloomington, 2012). His awards include the Bessel-Award of the Humboldt Foundation (2012) and that of Laureate in Humanities of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium (2013).
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Early modern exemplars and editorial mediation in the Bollandist Project : Johannes Veldius’s work for the Acta Sanctorum (1743-1746)
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The many manuscript faces of the Miracula sancti Remacli : textual fluidity and variation in High Medieval hagiographies
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De l'abbatiat laïque à l'avouerie : le cas des monastères de femmes en Lotharingie (IXe-début Xie siècle)
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Intersecting eremitical, regular, and congregational identities : the Canons of Hérival and Their Rule (1150s/1160s–1240s)
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A state of tension : vowed monks, lay servants, and lay religious before the lay brothers (late tenth to late eleventh centuries)
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Judith of West Francia (843 or 844–?)
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Adso of Montier-en-Der’s Life and Miracles of St Basolus (BHL 1034-1035) revisited : a reformist hagiography?
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Discourses of resistance, resilience, and resignation : the secular canonesses of Bouxières and their multiple response to the French Revolution (1790-91)
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Encased in silk : the women of Bouxières and their archives
(2025) Gender, memory and documentary culture, c. 900-1300. In Medieval documentary cultures 3. p.271-288 -
The limits of fraternal love : bottom-up trends in Cluniac expansion during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries