Research

Current projects

• Bilingualism in Medieval Ireland - language choice as part of intellectual culture
  2012-2016
• In Tune with Eternity: Song and the Spirituality of the Modern Devotion
  2012-2015
• Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past: 400-1000 AD
  2010 - 2013
• The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective
  2010 - 2013
• Dutch Songs Online
  1 May 2009 - 30 April 2013
• Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO)
  May 2009 – February 2013
• The Dynamics of Apocryphal Traditions in Medieval Religious Culture
  1 January 2008 – 1 January 2013
• Medieval Urban Literacy
  1 September 2007 – 1 September 2010

Collaboration

Members of the research group participate in Utrecht University's research focus areas Cultures and Identities and Origins and Impacts of Institutions, and in the Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek (Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies). The group also contributes to the Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis (Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History), the Onderzoekschool Literatuurwetenschap (Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies) and NOSTER (Netherlands Research School for Theology).

Furthermore, researchers of Medieval Culture are involved in the international research projects Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages and Animaliter - Tiere in der Literatur des Mittelalters (pilot version). Prof. Orlanda Lie is chair of the Werkgroep Middelnederlandse Artes Literatuur (WEMAL, Research group Middle Dutch Artes Literature). Lastly, members of the group play a role in the administration of the International Arthurian Society and the International Reynard Society.

Completed projects

• The Interplay between Middle Dutch Charlemagne and Arthurian Romances
  1 January 2007 – 1 January 2010
• The Fifteenth-Century Variants of the Hundred Articles of the Passions by Henry Suso
  1 October 2004 - 27 January 2009