Tjisje Geertje
Jasperse
Redes sociales
Research
Currently I am a Ramón y Cajal researcher (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, RYC2021-033251-I). My research focuses on the medieval visual and material culture of authority and gender, foregrounding that women were essential players in the formation and consolidation of transregional ties and liturgical practices.
In my current project “The Art of Concealment: The Display, Storage, Burial and Loss of Seals (ca. 1200-1400)” I explore the material culture connected with medieval seals - charters, seal-bags, chronicles, cartularies, and grave goods - in order to understand how and why seals were not only displayed, but also stored and buried. Using insights from anthropology and archaeology, the acts of display and concealment are connected with seals’ movement and stasis. This allows us to understand medieval practices of storing, curating, and concealing, together with modern ideas concerning retrieving and reconstructing the past.
Curriculum Vitae
My art historical path started in Amsterdam, where I studied at the Vrije Universiteit (BA) and University of Amsterdam (MA), where I also wrote my dissertation about Duchess Matilda of Saxony (defended 2013). I was a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Amsterdam (2007-2015). In 2015 I received the prestigious Juan de la Cierva-Formación, a two-year postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity. This brought me to Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid (2016-2018), where I participated in Therese Martin’s project The Medieval Treasury across Frontiers and Generations: The Kingdom of León-Castilla in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange, c. 1050-1200. From 2018-2022 I was Assistant Professor at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte (Professur für Bildkulturen des Mittelalters led by Kathrin Müller) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. There I was also involved in The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond (PI Therese Martin, 2019-2022), which addresses broad socio-cultural questions concerning the role of sumptuary collections as evidence of contacts both within and beyond Iberia during the central Middle Ages.
I was a founding member of the Center for Medieval Studies Amsterdam (2011-2015). In 2019 I was elected International Associate to the Board of Directors, International Center of Medieval Art (New York). From 2018-2022 I served on the Leeds Program Committee of the Medieval Academy of America. Since 2020 I have been the series editor for CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures (Arc Humanities Press), and since 2023 I am an editorial board member of Archivo Español de Arte.
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:
“Looking at and Listening to the Limoges Crozier in Toledo Cathedral,” Archivo Español de Arte 96.384 (2023): 449-460. Open Access https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2023.54
“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), 171-189.
“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 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.
Project Direction:
2022-2023: Out of the Bag. Unravelling Medieval Seal Bags through Cultural Studies and Scientific Analysis (PI Jitske Jasperse, in collaboration with Dr Lucía Pereira Pardo). Funded by Strategic Research Fund, The National Archives.
2019-2020: Getting the Senses of Small Things / Sinn und Sinnlichkeit kleiner Dinge (lead PI Jitske Jasperse, in cooperation with Dr Karen Dempsey). Funded by Thyssen Stiftung.
Project Participation:
2019-2022: The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, RTI2018-098615-B-I00 (PI, Therese Martin, CSIC, Madrid).
2016-2018: The Medieval Treasury across Frontiers and Generations: The Kingdom of León-Castilla in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange (c. 1050-1200). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity, HAR2015-68614-P (PI, Therese Martin, CSIC, Madrid).
2015-2018: New Interpretations of the Angevin World, International Network. Funded by The Leverhulme Trust (PI, Stephen Church, University of East Anglia).
Datos tomados de la base de datos ConCiencia