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Dr. Robert Flierman

Assistant Professor 
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
Celtic and Classics
Celtic and Classics
 
Humanities
Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Medieval Culture
Medieval Culture
Transcomplex
Trans 10
Kamer 1.44
3512 JK Utrecht

Dr. Robert Flierman

Assistant Professor
Celtic and Classics
Medieval Culture
+31 30 253 5756
r.flierman@uu.nl
Profile Publications Activities In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Profile Publications Activities In the media Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Areas of expertise

Publications

2026

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2026). The Carolingisation of Time: A Comparative Look at the Early Frankish Annals. In S. Kaschke, & B. van Hees (Eds.), Annals in Carolingian Europe: A Genre in Motion (pp. 17-48). (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde; Vol. 147). De Gruyter. [DOI]

2025

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R., & Williard, H. (2025). Letters, gifts and messengers: The epistolary strategies of St Radegund. Early Medieval Europe, 33(3), 309-340. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2024). The Silent Succession of Riculf of Mainz (d. 813): An Episcopal Career Reconsidered. Fruhmittelalterliche Studien, 58(1), 115-154. [DOI] [Portal]
Flierman, R. (2024). The Saint and the Citizens: Scripting Civic Behaviour in Early Medieval Hagiography. In E. Rose, R. Flierman, & M. de Bruin-van de Beek (Eds.), City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 : A Comparative Approach (pp. 171-198). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Repository]
Rose, E., Flierman, R., & De Bruin - Van de Beek, M. E. (2024). City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500: A Comparative Approach. (1 ed.) (The New Middle Ages ). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Repository]
De Bruin - Van de Beek, M. E., & Flierman, R. (2024). The Medieval City: Stones, Communities, Concepts. In City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500: A Comparative Approach (pp. 3-25). Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Portal]

Professional publications

Flierman, R., & van der Steen, I. (2024). Dragers van de briefkunst: In het voetspoor van een vergeten bode. Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen, 37(3-4), 125-135. [DOI] [Portal]

2023

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2023). REVIEW: Prosopographie der Missionare im karolingischen Sachsen (ca. 750–850), by Andreas M. Mehdorn (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2021). Early Medieval Europe, 31(3), 522-525. Article 31. [DOI] [Repository]
Martínez Jiménez, J., & Flierman, R. (2023). The uses of citizenship in the post-Roman West. In J. Filonik, C. Plastow, & R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (Eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean (pp. 669-690). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2021). Hoc anno rex plures interfecit: The Year 782 in the Major and Minor Annals. In E. S. Kooper , & S. Levelt (Eds.), The Medieval Chronicle (Vol. 14, pp. 136-158). (The Medieval Chronicle; Vol. 14). Brill. [DOI] [Portal]
Flierman, R., & Welton, M. (2021). De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain. Early Medieval Europe, 29(2), 137-160. [DOI] [Repository]
Flierman, R. (2021). Mirror Histories: Frisians and Saxons from the First to the Ninth Century AD. In J. Hines, & N. IJssennagger-van der Pluijm (Eds.), Frisians of the Early Middle Ages (pp. 223-248). (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology; Vol. 10). Boydell & Brewer. [DOI] [Portal]
Flierman, R. (2021). Gregory of Tours and the Merovingian letter. Journal of Medieval History, 47(2), 119-144. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R., & Rose, H. G. E. (2020). Banished from the Company of the Good. Christians and Aliens in Fifth-Century Rome. Al-Masaq, 32(1), 64-86. [DOI] [Repository]

Popularising publications

Flierman, R. (2020). Column: Haargrens. Madoc. Tijdschrift voor de Middeleeuwen 18 (2004), 34(4), 204-207.
Flierman, R. (2020). Column: Quarantainekroniek. Madoc. Tijdschrift voor de Middeleeuwen 18 (2004), 34(4), 283-286.
Flierman, R. (2020). Column: Postbode. Madoc. Tijdschrift voor de Middeleeuwen 18 (2004), 34(2), 91-94.
Flierman, R. (2020). Column: De Schijn van Leven. Madoc. Tijdschrift voor de Middeleeuwen 18 (2004), 34(1), 13-15.

2019

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2019). Die Neuerfindung eines Volkes: Sächsische Identitäten vor und nach den Sachsenkriegen. In B. Ludovici (Ed.), Saxones: Eine neue Geschichte der alten Sachsen. Eine neue Geschichte für Niedersachsen (pp. 26-30). TU Braunschweig.

Professional publications

Rose, H. G. E., Boers, K., de Bruin - van de Beek, M. E., Flierman, R., & Welton, M. L. (2019). De stad verworpen en verworven. Madoc. Tijdschrift voor de Middeleeuwen 18 (2004), 33, 82-92. [Repository]

2018

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2018). Review: Owen Phelan. The Formation of Christian Europe: The Carolingians, Baptism, and the Imperium Christianum (Oxford, 2014). Early Medieval Europe, 26(4), 563-565.

Professional publications

Flierman, R., & Drieshen, C. H. M. (2018). St. Benedictus tussen de biertegoeden. In B. Jaski, M. Mostert, & K. van Vliet (Eds.), Perkament in stukken: Teruggevonden middeleeuwse handschriftfragmenten (pp. 120-125). Uitgeverij Verloren.

2017

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2017). Review: Robert E. Lerner. Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life. History of Humanities, 2(2), 530-533. [DOI] [Repository]
Flierman, R. (2017). Review: Shami Ghosh. Writing the Barbarian Past: Studies in Early Medieval Historical Narrative. History of Humanities, 2(1), 273-276. [DOI] [Repository]
Flierman, R. (2017). Review: Jeroen Wijnendaele. The Last of the Romans. Bonifatius – Warlord and Comes Africae. Res Militares, 17(1), 9-10. [Repository]
Flierman, R. (2017). Saxon Identities: AD 150-900. Bloomsbury Academic.

Professional publications

Flierman, R. (2017). Recensie. Jan J.B. Kuipers. Karel de Grote. Stamvader van Europa. Madoc, 31(2).

2016

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2016). Religious Saxons. Paganism, Infidelity and Biblical Punishment in the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae. In R. Meens, D. van Espelo, B. van den Hoven van Genderen, J. Raaijmakers, I. van Renswoude, & C. van Rhijn (Eds.), Religious Franks. Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong (pp. 181-201 ). Manchester University Press.

Professional publications

Flierman, R. (2016). Dieren in de Middeleeuwen: Krokodil. Madoc, 30(4), 224-225.

Other output

Flierman, R. (2016). Label or Libel?: The Ethnonym 'Saxo' in the Latin Textual Record, 300-900. Paper presented at International Medieval Congress 2016, Leeds, United Kingdom.

2015

Scholarly publications

Flierman, R. (2015). Gens perfida or populus Christianus: The Saxons in Carolingian Historiography. In C. Gantner, R. McKitterick, & S. Meeder (Eds.), The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe (pp. 188-205). Article art nr 11 Cambridge University Press.
Flierman, R. (2015). Pagan, Pirate, Subject, Saint: Defining and Redefining Saxons, 150-900 A.D. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [Repository]

2014

Professional publications

Flierman, R. (2014). In de schaduw van karolingische expansie: Saksische herinneringen aan de Saksenoorlogen van Karel de Grote. Madoc, 28(3), 130-39.

Popularising publications

Flierman, R. (2014). Eén Europa onder Karel de Grote. Geschiedenis Magazine, 49(2), 20-23.

2013

Other output

Flierman, R. (2013). The Claim of perfidia in Discourses on the Saxon Wars. Paper presented at British School at Rome International Conference: Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past, Rome, Italy.
Flierman, R. (2013). Mission from Mainz? Some Notes on the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae. Paper presented at Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages XVI, Wenen, Austria.

2012

Other output

Flierman, R. (2012). From Exclusion to Inclusion: The Saxons in the Ninth-Century Textual Record. Paper presented at International Medieval Congress Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Flierman, R. (2012). Karl oder Widukind? Disputing the Early Medieval Past in Nazi Germany. Paper presented at From Widukind to Wilders, Utrecht, Netherlands.

2011

Other output

Flierman, R. (2011). Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion in Carolingian Society. Paper presented at International Medieval Congress Leeds, Leeds, UK.

2010

Professional publications

Flierman, R. (2010). Tom Holland. De gang naar Canossa. De westerse revolutie rond het jaar 1000. Millennium, 24(2), 169-71.
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