Dr. Jitske Jasperse

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Professur für Bildkulturen des Mittelalters

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

Books:
Het vrouwelijk oog wil ook wat. Vrouwen als opdrachtgevers, verzamelaars en kunstenaars (Sterck & De Vreese, 2021). Reviews: Stretto. Magazine voor Kunst; Vrij Nederland, Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen; Beauty & Books Magazine, dezondvloed.be; Museumtijdschrift; NRC

Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2020). Also in Open Access (free download). Reviews: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 85 (2021): 284-285; Royal Studies Journal 8.2 (2021): 224-225.

Getting the Senses of Small Things / Sinn und Sinnlichkeit kleiner Dinge, eds. Jitske Jasperse and Karen Dempsey, special issue, Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung 25, no. 2 (2020).

Articles:
“San Isidoro de León and Saint Blaise at Braunschweig: Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World,” in Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe, ed. Christian Raffensperger (New York: Routledge), forthcoming 2022.

“With This Ring: Forming Plantagenet Family Ties,” in Relations of Power: Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages, eds. Emma O. Bérat, Rebecca Hardie and Irina Dumitrescu (Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2021), 67-84.

“Between León and the Levant: The Infanta Sancha’s Portable Altar as Material Evidence for Medieval History,” in The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange (Expanded Edition), ed. Therese Martin (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 145-170. Complete book in Open Access.

with Karen Dempsey,“Multisensorial Musings on Miniature Matters,” Getting the Senses of Small Things / Sinn und Sinnlichkeit kleiner Dinge, eds. Jitske Jasperse and Karen Dempsey, special issue, Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung 25, no. 2 (2020), 249-270. Also in Open Access

“Loss and Triumph in the Rolandslied: Cultural Poetics of Space and Gender,” in Gewalt, Krieg und Geschlecht im Mittelalter, ed. Amalie Fößel (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020), 46-78. Also in Open Access

“Of Seals and Siblings: Teresa/Matilda (d. 1218), Queen of Portugal and Countess of Flanders,” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 12, no. 3 (2020). Also in Open Access

“Matilda of Saxony’s Luxury Objects in Motion: Salving the Wounds of Conflict” in Moving Women, Moving Objects 300-1500, eds. Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 83-104.

“Between León and the Levant: The Infanta Sancha’s Portable Altar as Material Evidence for Medieval History.” The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange, ed. Therese Martin, special issue, Medieval Encounters (2019): 124-149.

“Medium en Macht in de Middeleeuwen,” Leidschrift: Historisch Tijdschrift 34, no. 1 (2019): 75-91. Website

“Manly Minds in Female Bodies: Three Women and their Power through Coins and Seals,” Memoria, género y poder en la Edad Media, ed. Ana Rodríguez, special issue, Arenal. Revista de historia de las mujeres 25, no. 2 (2018), 295-321.

“Visualizing Dynastic Desire: The Twelfth-Century Gospel Book of Henry and Matilda,” Studies in Iconography 39 (2018), 135-166.

“Women, Courtly Display and Gifts in the Rolandslied and the Chanson de Roland,” Mediaevistik. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Medieval Research 30 (2017), 125-141.

“Matilda, Leonor and Joanna: The Plantagenet Sisters and the Display of Dynastic Connections through Material Culture,” Journal of Medieval History 43, no. 4 (2017), 523-547. It is Feminae Article of the Month (November 2018).

“To Have and to Hold: Coins and Seals as Evidence for Motherly Authority,” in Royal Mothers and Their Ruling Children. Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era, eds. Carey Fleiner and Elena Woodacre (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2015), 83-104.

 “A Coin Bearing Testimony to Duchess Matilda as Consors Regni,” Haskins Society Journal 26 (2014 appeared in 2015), 169-190.

Reviews:
“Wendelien van Welie-Vink, Body Language: The Body in Medieval Art. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2020,” in Art and Christianity journal 104 (2020), 13-14.

“Johanna Dale, Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2019,” in Royal Studies Journal 6 (2019), 228-230.

“Penelope Nash, Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017,” Royal Studies Journal 5 (2018), 185-187.

“Martin Homza, Mulieres suadentes – Persuasive Women: Female Royal Saints in Medieval East Central and Eastern Europe. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, 42. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017,” Mediaevistik. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Medieval Research 30 (2018), 298-300.

“Linda E. Mitchell, Joan de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2016,” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 52, no. 1 (2016), 110-112.

“Mary Dockray-Miller, The Books and Life of Judith of Flanders. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015,” Royal Studies Journal 3, no. 1 (2016), 86-87.

“Hans Eberhard Mayer and Claudia Sode, Die Siegel der Lateinische Könige von Jerusalem, Monumenta Germaniae Historica Schriften, Band 66, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014,” The Medieval Review, 2015.09.19.

Recent Panel Organisation:
23 February 2021, Panel “Out of Sight: Artefacts and Assemblages in the Medieval Mediterranean.” The Medieval Mediterranean: Local and Global Perspectives. A panel with Prof. Anne E. Lester (Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. Verónica Carla Abenza Soria (CSIC Madrid). The session has been recorded and can be accessed here.

13-14 June 2019, International workshop “Rethinking the In/visibility of Medieval Objects,” Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

2-5 July 2018, Panel “Recollecting Medieval Artefacts: A Global Approach,” International Medieval Congress Leeds. Selected for sponsorship by the International Center of Medieval Art.

Other Activities

I serve on the Medieval Academy of America’s Leeds Program Committee, on the editorial board of CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures, Arc Humanities Press and am an International Associate on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).

Media

Gespräch über mein Buch Het vrouwelijk oog wil ook wat im Radioprogramm Nooit meer slapen, 10.08.2021.

Gespräch über mein Buch Het vrouwelijk oog wil ook wat im Radioprogramm Nieuwsweekend, 14.08.2021.

Reddit, r/AskHistorians, 17.07.2020.

Sancha trajo a León trozos de la cuna y la mesa de Jesús, Diario de León 12.09.2018.

Fragmentos de la cuna y la mesa de Jesús que trajo infanta Sancha a León, Castilla y León Televisión 18.09.2018