Irene van Renswoude is a postdoctoral researcher at the Huygens ING (KNAW) in Den Haag. In addition, she is affiliated researcher at the Research Institute for History and Art History. At this institute (formerly OGC) she wrote a PhD thesis, entitled Licence to speak. The rhetoric of free speech in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, for which she received the Praemium Erasmianum Research Award in 2012. Currently she is preparing this thesis for publication with Cambridge UP. Since 2014 she is editor of the (soon to be launched) online journal Medieval worlds. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her current research project focusses on censorship and debate in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. This postdoc project is part of an NWO funded project on annotations and reader's notes in the margin of early medieval manuscripts: Marginal Scholarship. The practice of learning in the early Middle Ages (c.800-c.1000), led by Prof. Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens ING/UU).