Janneke Raaijmakers

Janneke Ellen Raaijmakers (Hilversum, 28 June 1973 - Utrecht, 2 May 2021)[1] was a Dutch historian of the Middle Ages who specialized in the formation of monastic communities and the role of religious objects in the cult of the saints, with a particular focus on Fulda and the Fulda monastery, founded by Saint Boniface.

[4] Between 2005 and 2010 she did postdoctoral research on Saint Boniface and the role his life and work played in the building and transformation of various monastic communities.

She has published on various aspects of monastic and religious life, including necrologies.

[5] Her The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744 – c. 900 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 and offered a "multidimensional portrait of [this] influential monastery".

[6][7] Later in her career, Raaijmakers focused on the function of religious objects in the medieval West, particularly relics and their veneration.