Els De Paermentier is associate professor at the Department of History at Ghent University. In 2010 she obtained her PhD on the Charter production and the organisation of the comital chancery in Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244) (supervisor: Thérèse de Hemptinne). She is specialised in medieval auxiliary sciences including diplomatics, palaeography and sigillography. Her main research focuses on documentary writing practices in secular and ecclesiastical institutions in the Low Countries during the 12th and 13th centuries. Additionally, she is working on female lordship and aristocratic patronage within the same period and area.
Institutional engagements
History department: member since 2004
Academic Programme Committee: member since 2004, secretary 2010-2019
Coordinator Education Communication (History Programme): since 2022
OSGG Alumni Association: president 2016-2018
Research engagements
Member of doctoral jury's and doctoral advisory committees: since 2016
Commission internationale de Diplomatique: member since 2020
Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies: member since 2009
Belgian-Dutch working group Schrift en Schriftdragers in de Nederlanden in de Middeleeuwen (SSNM): member since 2011, president 2021-2023
Oorkondenboek Limburg edition project (Huygens ING): member of the editorial board since 2019
The Medieval Review (TMR): member of the board of review editors (2023-2024)
DiDiP - From Digital to Distant Diplomatics (ERC University of Graz): member of the scientific advisory board (2022-2026)
Belgian State Archives (ARA), Reconstructing the Ghent knowledge center of the Counts & Countesses of Flanders, 11th-18th C. (REIGN): member of the scientific committee since 2023
Digital Medievalist: member of the executive board 2015-2021, vice-director 2019-2021, editorial board member of Digital Medievalist Journal 2016-2022
Royal Library of Belgium (KB): member of the scientific board 2016-2019
Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC). A Multiple Database System for the Launch of Diplomata Belgica and for a Completely Updated Version of Narrative Sources: member of the scientific advisory board
COST Action Programm IS1005: Medieval Europe: member of the working group Design of a Virtual Center for Medieval Studies' (2012-2015)
Einhard Onderzoeksinstituut voor Middeleeuwse Studies: member 2006-2009
Public history projects
Podcast De vorstinnen van Vlaanderen (co-production VRT Klara and the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, 11 episodes) (2021-2023)
Public course Middle Dutch Palaeography (12 classes, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Historical Languages and Ghent Archives) (2022)
Public Championship Palaeography of the Low Countries (Bruges 2020, Utrecht 2022): jury member
