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Turning superstition into science. Atmospheric tides science and the transformation of astrology in Enlightenment Continental Europe Ghent University

Steven Vanden Broecke
Department of History

The period 1700-1840 witnessed the flowering of a new U+2018atmospheric tidesU+2019 science. The basic
assumption of this science was that Sun and Moon not only generate significant tidal effects in the
earthU+2019s seas, but in its atmosphere as well. These atmospheric tides (henceforth AT) were held
responsible for important weather changes, as well as for a variety of health issues in the human
body (e.g. insanity, ...

Sabbatical 2018-2019 Prof. Christiane Stallaert. University of Antwerp

Christiane Stallaert
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
My research as a hispanist and anthropologist focuses on social and political themes (nationalism, interethnic and interreligious society, migration, human rights, historical memory), and its interrelations. The cultural border is central to my work, which is inter- and transdisciplinary, at the intersection of Anthropology, Translation Studies and History. Geographically, my research domain is in Spain and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Andean ...

The pre-industrial transformation of boys' labour. From learning through apprenticeships to being employed as an unskilled, cheap workforce? (1550 – 1800). University of Antwerp

Bert De Munck
Centre for Urban History
This project will challenge and add to the knowledge of child labour by determining how the logics behind sending children to the labour market in the Southern Netherlands (more specifically Ghent and Antwerp) changed between the 16th and late 18th century. In doing so, it will determine how mentalities and practises on children's education and labour transformed in urban societies and will shed light on children of learning and working age as a ...

Hunting for Ambition: The Royal Hunt and the Representation of Power at the Court of Savoy. University of Antwerp

Luc Duerloo
Power in History - Centre for Political History
Influenced by anthropology and the 'performative turn' in social sciences, historians and political analysts alike have begun to reconsider notions of 'authority'. Sovereignty is now understood to be a continuous activity of claim making. As a result, the on-going performance of power can be studied through seemingly trivial activities. If any of these deserves to be studied from that perspective, it is most certainly the princely hunt. It would ...

Honour Besieged? Marks of Nobility and the (Re)making of Social Order in the Habsburg Netherlands (1570-1650). University of Antwerp

Luc Duerloo
Power in History - Centre for Political History
The Dutch Revolt that afflicted the Habsburg Netherlands engendered a sense of social dislocation. From the late sixteenth century onwards, the alleged confusion of noble and bourgeois identities prompted a princely regulation of status display. These legal prescriptions imbued certain exterior signs with an exclusive 'noble' honour that confined their public appearance. Departing from a dynamic interplay between princely interventionism and ...

Agriculture, wage labour and household economies in eighteenthcentury Flanders: a regional and integrated analysis. Ghent University

Thijs Lambrecht
Department of History

During the eighteenth century the Flemish countryside experienced profound structural change.

Agricultural production increased and diversified, population rose by some 60 per cent and

agricultural holdings were increasingly subdivided. This project views this changes through the lens

of the labour market for agricultural labour. The first objective of this project consists of a

reconstruction of the labour demand of ...

On the Trail of Power: The Royal Hunt and the Performance of Sovereignty. University of Antwerp

Luc Duerloo
Power in History - Centre for Political History
Influenced by anthropology and the 'performative turn' in social sciences, historians and political analysts alike have begun to reconsider notions of 'authority'. Sovereignty is now understood to be a continuous activity of claim making. As a result, the on-going performance of power can be studied through seemingly trivial activities. If any of these deserves to be studied from that perspective, it is most certainly the princely hunt. It would ...

Fashioning 'old and new'. Secondary markets, commodity value conventions and the dawn of consumer societies in Western Europe (18th-19th centuries) University of Antwerp

Bruno Blondé
Centre for Urban History
Present-day policies to reinvigorate secondary markets and to reinforce the circular economy show a belief in societal progress through technological innovation and supply-side engineering. However, what is crucial in understanding our current 'throwaway'-attitudes – and any current-day policies shaping these – is a better knowledge of historically and culturally constructed demand-side issues, i.e. the formation of long-running consumer habits ...

Old vs. new media: handwritten newsletters in the first age of the printed newspaper University of Antwerp

Guido Marnef
Centre for Urban History
This project investigates the co-existence of old and new media in the pre-modern age. To understand how old and new communication technology shaped societies in the past is particularly relevant given current debates on the societal impact of digital technology and new social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. This project studies how and why handwritten newsletters continued to exist alongside printed newspapers in the seventeenthcentury ...

Back to the Future: future expectations in the Low Countries, 1400-1600. University of Antwerp

Jeroen Puttevils
Centre for Urban History
Back to the Future investigates future expectations in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries. The analysis of the semantics and the contents of written future statements will verify whether the future began to be perceived as open and uncertain, and if an assumed transition to modernity caused by the rise of capitalism and changes in beliefs took place. This project goes beyond the current research which focused on: 1) the ...