Publications
Between corporatism and capitalism? Urban industry and labour in eighteenth-century Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
by the central authorities in the Austrian Netherlands in 1738, to explore the state
of urban industries in the County of Flanders on the eve of an economic revival
that would lead into the first industrial revolution on the European continent. By
focussing on three empirical questions – the extent and nature of industrial ...
Those closest to the fire enjoy the most of its glow. Inequality and energy in eighteenth-century Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This chapter begins by outlining the patterns of change in domestic heating and lighting observed in a provincial town in the Southern Netherlands between the final quarter of the seventeenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries. Using a social-historical perspective on the adoption of fossil fuels within the early modern home, this chapter aims to bring the everyday implications of energy transitions to the fore. In this context of early ...
De ambities van burgerwetenschap onder de loep. Het Getuigenissen-project als specimen Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Is it the cow that sells the steak, or the sizzle? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
today than it has been ever since the transition of hunter-gathering
to agriculture, while attitudes toward meat production and animal
killing have become increasingly characterized by moral ambiguity
and disgust. To contribute to our understanding of the genesis of
this meat paradox, this study analyses how mid-nineteenth-century
Belgian ...
Loon naar werken? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Governance, regulation and the state Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Assessing levels of traditionality and naturalness depicted on labels of fermented meat products in the retail Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Food labelling is a tool to inform consumers about the specifications and characteristics of a product. Additionally, labels display information about traditionality and naturalness, of which the meaning is highly subjective. There is a paucity of research examining attributes both of tradition and naturalness. In this study, traditionality was assessed by a model that included temporal, geographical, know-how, and cultural components. ...
Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379-85 Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
Over the past few decades there has been a tendency to focus on the political nature and cultural aspects of medieval collective action, rather than on poverty, inequality and other socio-economic causalities. Based on a detailed reinterpretation of the economic, political, social and material position of the textile workers who revolted in fourteenth-century Bruges, in the highly urbanized and economically developed county of Flanders, we ...