Dr Ineke van 't Spijker
I read history at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and then lectured in Utrecht and Groningen before moving to Cambridge in 2000, where I became a life member of Clare Hall. My research interests are in medieval hagiography, medieval exegesis, and ideas about inwardness.
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Key publications:
Fictions of the Inner Life. Religious literature and formation of the self in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Brepols 2004).
‘The Literal and the Spiritual. Richard of Saint-Victor and the Multiple Meaning of Scripture’ in Ineke van ’t Spijker, ed. The Multiple Meaning of Scripture. The Role of Exegesis in Early-Christian and Medieval Culture, Leiden, Brill, 2009, pp. 225-247.
‘Partners in Profession. Inwardness, Experience, and Understanding in Heloise and Abelard’, in Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing. Reading the Book of Life, ed. by Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Liz Herbert McAvoy The New Middle Ages, New York, Palgrave MacMillan: 2009, pp. 47-64.
‘Ad commovendos affectus: Exegesis and the affects in Hugh of Saint-Victor’, in Rainer Berndt SJ, ed., Bibel und Exegese in der Abtei Saint- Victor zu Paris. Form und Funktion eines Grundtextes im europäischen Rahmen. Münster, Aschendorff Verlag: 2009, Corpus Victorinum, Instrumenta 3, pp. 215-234.
“Image of thought. Hugh of Saint-Victor and Richard of Saint-Victor On thinking.” In: Speaking to the Eye. Sight and Insight through Text and Image (1150-1650), ed. Thérèse de Hemptinne, Veerle Fraters, and Maria Eugenia Gongora, Turnhout:Brepols, 2013, pp. 17-46.
“Conflict and Correspondence. Inner and Outer in Abelard and Hugh of Saint-Victor” in Babette Hellemans, ed., Rethinking Abelard. A Collection of Critical Essays. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 229, Leiden/Boston:Brill, 2014, pp. 84-101
“Impressed by Their Stamp”: Hagiography and the Cultivation of the Self, in Samantha Kahn Herrick, ed., Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500, Leiden/Boston: Brill 2019, pp. 192-208.