Ivo Wolsing
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. I. Wolsing
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2123
- i.wolsing@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Ivo Wolsing is a researcher at the Institute for History.
More information about Ivo Wolsing
Fields of interest
- Latin literature
- Classical reception
- Crusades and crusader states
- Orientalism
- Twelfth-century literature
Research
My research focuses on the interaction between Latin literature and literature in other languages (Old French, Arabic) during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. I am also interested in cross-cultural interactions in Crusader States and Norman Sicily.
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis
- Wolsing I. (2024), History and politics in the Latin East: William of Tyre and the composition of the Historia Hierosolymitana. In: Buck A.D., Kane J.H. & Spencer S.J. (Eds.), Crusade, settlement and historical writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100-c.1300. Crusading in Context no. 5. Woodbridge: Boydell&Brewer. 174-190.
- Wolsing I. (2024), Diplomatie en hofceremonieel in het oostelijke Middellandse Zeegebied, ca. 900-1200: Ontvangstrituelen in comparatief perspectief, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 137(3): 246-262.
- Wolsing I. (2023), De middeleeuwen waren wereldvreemd. In: Kleij N. van & Roelens J. (Eds.), Middeleeuwse medemensen: de cliché's over de donkere eeuwen voorbij. Deurne: Ertsberg. 291-316.
- Wolsing I. (2022), Een zoektocht naar de epische held: polemiek en (meta)poëzie in de AlexandreÏs van Walter van Châtillon, Madoc: tijdschrift over de middeleeuwen 36(3): 164-173.
- Wolsing I (2022), Epic, Empire and Tradition: The Classical East Recontextualized in Twelfth-Century Epic Poetry. In: Franzoni S., Lonati E. & Russo A. (Eds.) Le sens des textes classiques au Moyen Âge: Transmission, exégèse, réécriture. Recherches sur les Réceptions de l'Antiquité no. 4 Turnhout: Brepols. 225-244.
- Wolsing I. (2022), William of Tyre, orientalism and the (de)construction of Latin identity in twelfth-century Jerusalem, Medieval Encounters. Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 28(6): 485-516.
- Wolsing I. (2020), Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Turkish Alterity in Chronicles from the Latin East, 1099-1127, Viator 51(2): 189-227.
- Wolsing I. (2019), “Look, there comes the half-man!” Delegitimising Tancred of Lecce in Peter of Eboli’s Liber ad honorem Augusti, Al-Masaq. Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 31(3): 323-337.