Catharina Geertruida Santing (born 1958), commonly going by Catrien Santing, is a Dutch

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. Her research focuses on cultural history and medical history in the late-medieval and early-modern

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Career

Santing studied History and Art History at the

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, and worked as a lecturer in the same institution. She obtained her doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on the Renaissance physician Theodericus Ulsenius. She has since 2009 been

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of Medieval History in Groningen. She has also served as chair of the editorial board of '' BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review''.

Publications

*Catrien Santing (ed.), ''De geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen aan de Groningse universiteit 1614-1939'' (Hilversum, 1997) *Frank Huisman, Catrien Santing (eds.), ''Medische geschiedenis in regionaal perspectief: Groningen 1500-1900'' (Rotterdam: Erasmus 1997) *Catrien Santing, Henk te Velde, Margrith Wilke (eds.), ''Machtige lichamen. Het vingertje van Luns en andere politieke wapens'' (Amsterdam, 2005)Reviewed
in ''

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'' by Niek Pas, 10 Feb. 2006. Accessed 11 March 2015. *Maarten Duijvendak, Hidde Feenstra, Martin Hillenga, Catrien Santing (eds.), ''Geschiedenis van Groningen'', 3 vols. (Zwolle: Waanders, 2008) * Hans Cools, Catrien Santing, Hans de Valk (eds.), ''Adrian VI: A Dutch Pope in a Roman Context'' (Turnhout:

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, 2012) *C. G. Santing & J. J. Touber (eds.), ''Blood – Symbol – Liquid'' (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change; Leuven: Peeters, 2012). *Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert & Anita Traninger (eds.), ''Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture'' (Leiden:

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, 2013)

References

External links

Staff page
at the

website. Accessed 15 March 2015. 1958 births Living people Dutch art historians Dutch medievalists Women medievalists Dutch medical historians University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen People from Meppel Dutch women art historians 20th-century Dutch women writers 20th-century Dutch historians 21st-century Dutch women writers 21st-century Dutch historians {{Netherlands-historian-stub