Projects
The economics of court life. The interaction of court and the city in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Eating with your fingers, dining with your eyes. Table manners in the late mediëval and early modern Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Spiritual Morality. The Religious Orders and the Virtues, 1050-1300 KU Leuven
Spiritual Morality aims to contribute to modern-day virtue ethics from a medieval perspective; to the reflection on method and form in the study of medieval theology; and to the history of the birth of the religious orders of the “long twelfth century.” It discusses basic religious ideas that gave powerful impulses to incipient institutions. By analyzing a selection of foundational (Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, Augustinian, ...
The Lure of Lady Luck: lotteries and economic culture in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Hispano-Flemish elites in the Habsburg Netherlands. Transregional marriages and mixed identities, 1659-1708. KU Leuven
Who is who in late medieval Brussels? KU Leuven
The Rhythm of Life in Late Antiquity: The Impact of Christianity. KU Leuven
Reform and the Bishop: Episcopal Attitudes towards the Administration and Reform of Religious Communities during the Central Middle Ages (Ecclesiastical Province of Rheims, c. 900-c. 1100). KU Leuven
Tutor ac Nutritor. Episcopal Agency, Lordship and the Administration of Religious Communities in the Ecclesiastical Province of Rheims (c. 888 -1073) KU Leuven
My dissertation focuses on interactions between tenth-century bishops and religious communities in the church province of Rheims, between c. 888 and 1073. It offers new insight on the history of the early medieval Frankish kingdoms, more specifically, on the concept of monastic reform, the relations between abbeys and bishops, the post-Carolingian political transformation and the mechanisms of lordship. The main goal of this research can be ...