Catharina Geertruida Santing (born 1958), commonly going by Catrien Santing^[2] is a Dutch medievalist. Her research focuses on cultural history and medical history in the late-medieval and early-modern Low Countries.

Career

Santing studied History and Art History at the University of Groningen, and worked as a lecturer in the same institution.^[3] She obtained her doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on the Renaissance physician Theodericus Ulsenius. She has since 2009 been full professor of Medieval History in Groningen.^[4] 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)^[5]
• 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: Brepols, 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: Brill Publishers, 2013)