Irene van Renswoude (born 1967) is professor by special appointment of Manuscripts and Cultural History, with a focus on the Middle Ages (500–1500), at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Humanities.
[1][2][3] She holds the Herman de la Fontaine Verwey Chair, a position established on behalf of the National Library of the Netherlands.
On 6 June 2011 she was awarded a PhD (cum laude) for her thesis entitled Licence to speak.
The rhetoric of free speech in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
[5] In 2015, she was awarded, together with Mariken Teeuwen, funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a project titled The Art of Reasoning: Techniques of Scientific Argumentation in the Medieval Latin West (c. 400- c. 1400).