Mayke de Jong

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Mayke de Jong, 2019

Mayke de Jong (born October 13, 1950 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch historian .

Mayke de Jong graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Masters in 1977 . In 1986 she received there with Co van de Kieft the Ph.D. with the dissertation on Kind en klooster in de vroege middeleeuwen . From 1977 to 1987 she was a lecturer in medieval history and cultural anthropology in The Hague . She was also a lecturer at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen from 1977 to 1987 . Since 1987 she has been teaching as professor for medieval history at the University of Utrecht .

De Jong researched in detail the monastic life and the role of penance in the context of the politico-religious culture of the Carolingian period (approx. 750-900). With her work The Penitential State , published in 2009, she devoted herself to the rulers' penance that has arisen since Ludwig the Pious . Repentance was the answer to various conflicts and crises. The rebellions of 830 and 833 with Ludwig's renewed penance and monastery instruction were for them the high points of the “penitent state”. Your work is considered to be an important contribution to a recent reassessment of this Carolingian ruler.

She has been a corresponding member of the Royal Historical Society since 1999 . She received the research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2015 and 2016 she will conduct research with Stefan Esders at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Fonts

  • Epitaph for an Era. Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2019, ISBN 978-1-107-01431-2 .
  • The Penitential State. Authority and Atonement in the Age of Louis the Pious, 814-840. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-88152-4 .
  • In Samuel's image. Child oblation in the early medieval West (= Brill's studies in intellectual history. Vol. 12). Brill, Leiden et al. 1996, ISBN 90-04-10483-6 .

literature

  • Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswoude and Carine van Rhijn (eds.): Religious Franks. Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms. Studies in honor of Mayke de Jong. Manchester University Press, Manchester 2016, ISBN 0-7190-9763-0 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Johannes Fried : Canon and Medieval Studies. New literature on canon law, incest, and the marriage of Pippin of Italy. In: Historische Zeitschrift 294 (2012), pp. 115–141, here: pp. 120ff.
  2. ↑ Cf. u. a. the review by Annette Grabowsky in: Das Mittelalter Vol. 16 (2011), pp. 188-189.
personal data
SURNAME Jong, Mayke de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam