Els Rose receives honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne - News - Utrecht University (uu.nl)

Els Rose has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne. Rose is professor of late and medieval Latin at Utrecht University. The committee commended Rose for “ her original research, that has contributed to an understanding of the breadth and depth of the reception of texts and traditions in the liturgy of the Latin Church and more widely in Western culture.”

Research focus: Latin language and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Els Rose is Professor of Late and Medieval Latin at Utrecht University. As a medievalist, she works in an interdisciplinary tradition, combining philological, literary and historical methods with the material transmission of textual culture through manuscripts. A threefold laureate of the NWO Talent Programme, she dedicates her research to the Latin religious heritage of the medieval period. Most recently, she focused on citizenship discourses in Western Europe in the period 400-1100. This project will result in the monograph Ritual Performance and the Discourse of Citizenship in Medieval Latin Liturgy (New York-London: Routledge, forthcoming). In previous research projects she focused on Christian liturgy of the Middle Ages, the cult of the saints, Christian apocryphal literature, and the Latin apocryphal Acts of the Apostles.

 

Summer feast of Saint Martin

On 3 and 4 July 2022, the city of Utrecht celebrated its 900th anniversary with the summer festival of city patron Saint Martin. The festival was part of the NWO VICI-project Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages led by Els Rose. With the theme 'The miracle of Saint Martin - the happy city', the festival focused on the meaning of Saint Martin for the inhabitants of Utrecht in the Middle Ages and today. The programme included medieval music, an exhibition in the Dom church, a public book edited by Els Rose, a symposium and a documentary about Saint Martin. Children in the final years of primary school performed new Saint Martin songs.

Areas of interest:

• Late and medieval Latin
• Medieval religious culture
• Semantic change in early medieval citizenship discourses
• Christian apocryphal literature and Latin hagiography