Dr. Kay Boers is a Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History, employed by the Department of History and Art History in the Faculty of Humanities.  He is a board member of the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies and affiliated with the Toletum Red para la investigación sobre la Península Ibérica en la Antigüedad. He works on various aspects of Late Antiquity, which includes the reception of classical literature, language, and culture in the Post-Roman Kingdoms (especially in Hispano-Visigothic Iberia); the erasure and reuse of architecture and material culture; cities and citizens; and the Late Roman politics of violence and victimhood.

His PhD-thesis CIVIS. Rhetoricity, Citizens, and Citizenship in Seventh-Century Hispania (2024) financed by the Faculty of Humanities and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), investigates how Christians in seventh century Hispania made use of civic vocabulary to structure heuristic and rhetorical argument, and in particular, explores how Hispano-Visigothic authors and editors used this idiom to think about the relation between subject wellbeing and the exercise of royal and episcopal authority

His current research focuses on the global seventh-century and investigates the cultural and religious interactions of the period from a comparative and transregional perspective with a heavy emphasis on the relation between debates, (inter)text, and community.

Out now in full Open Access: 
Boers, K., Grose, B., Usherwood, R., and Walker, G. (eds.), Erasure in Late Antiquity. Trivent Medieval: Budapest (2024). 
https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/185-345-erasure-in-late-antiquity.html#/27-cover-paperback