Mayke De Jong
Department of History and Art History - Middle Ages
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Mayke de Jong is Professor of Medieval History, and a specialist of the political and religious history of the early middle ages. She has published widely on monastic life, biblical commentary, penance, historiography and political discourse in the Carolingian period (c. 750-900). Her most recent monograph is The Penitential State. Authority and Atonement in the Ages of Louis the Pious (Cambridge UP 2009; paperback, 2011). She is presently writing a book, also for CUP, on Paschasius Radbertus' Epitaphium Arsenii, a polemical work from the mid-ninth century, of which he will also publish an English translation. Furthermore, she is co-director, with Prof. Frans Theuws (UL) of the NWO-funded project Charlemagne’s Backyard? Rural society in the Netherlands in the Carolingian Age. An archaeological perspective (2013-2016).
Research Interest
Medieval History
Publications
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de Jong, M.B. & van Renswoude, Irene (2017). Themed edition - Carolingian cultures of dialogue, debate and disputation. Early medieval history, 25 (1), (pp. 1-113) (114 p.).
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de Jong, M.B. & van Renswoude, Irene (2017). Introduction: Carolingian cultures of dialogue, debate and disputation. Early medieval history, 25 (1), (pp. 6-18) (13 p.).
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de Jong, M.B. (2017). For God, king and country: the personal and the public in the Epitaphium Arsenii. Early medieval history, 25 (1), (pp. 102-113) (11 p.).
