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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Medieval History,Other Areas of History |
| Keywords | Medieval Europe, cultural history, history of religious movements, social history |
| Honours and awards | 2017: Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, IAS, University of Bristol (United Kingdom) 2013: Laureate of the Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgium 2012: Fellow, IAS, University of Indiana at Bloomington (USA) 2012: Laureate, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award, Humboldt Foundation 2010: Fellow, VLAC, Brussels (Belgium) 2009: Fellow, NIAS, Wassenaar (The Netherlands) 2008: Fellow, FOVOG, Eichstätt (Germany) 2005: Member, School of Historical Studies, IAS Princeton (USA) 2003: Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (United Kingdom) 2001: Prix Baron de Saint-Genois, Académie Royale de Belgique |
Current contact address
| Country | Belgium |
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| City | Gent |
| Institution | Ghent University |
| Institute | Department of History |
| Homepage | http://www.resoma.ugent.be |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Gert Melville | Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte / FOVOG - Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2012 |
Programme(s)
| 2012 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Vanderputten is well known internationally for his outstanding research in the social and religious history of the Central Middle Ages, in particular the study of monasticism. He has made important contributions to the study of the shaping of collective identities, institutional development, leadership, per formative aspects of social and political behaviour, and discourses of power and authority. He is strongly interested in combining traditional methods of historical investigation with those inspired by, or developed in, other disciplines in the Humanities. Recently he has been working on a series of studies relating to monastic reform, looking in particular at its relation to long-term trends in monastic institutional development and at questions relating to abbatial leadership. During his stay in Germany he will be focusing on per formative aspects of reform and on the formation of a sense of community in reformed communities. He will also be looking at the discourses underlying the study of reform in nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiography and their role in shaping our understanding of medieval realities. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2013 | Steven Vanderputten: Death as a Symbolic Arena: Abbatial Leadership, Episcopal Authority and the 'Ostentatious Death' of Richard of Saint-Vanne (d. 1046). In: Viator, 2013, 29-48 |
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| 2013 | Steven Vanderputten, Tjamke Snijders: From Scandal to Monastic Penance: A Reconciliatory Manuscript from the Early Twelfth-Century Abbey of St. Laurent in Liège. In: Church History, 2013, 523-553 |
| 2013 | Steven Vanderputten: Monastic Reform as Process. Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100. Cornell University Press, 2013 |
| 2013 | Steven Vanderputten: Reform, Conflict, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities. Collected Studies on Benedictine Monasticism, 10501150. LIT Verlag, 2013 |
| 2012 | Steven Vanderputten: Crossing Boundaries: Connecting with Secular Society in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries. In: C. Andenna, K. Herbers and G. Melville, Die Ordnung der Kommunikation und die Kommunikation der Ordnungen. Band 1. Netzwerke: Klöster und Orden im Europa des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts. 2012. 243-252 |
| 2012 | Steven Vanderputten: Monastic reform, abbatial leadership and the instrumentation of Cluniac discipline in the early twelfth-century Low Countries. In: Revue Mabillon, 2012, 41-65 |