Projects
From Dissecting Table to Courtroom. The Professionalisation of Medico-Legal Expertise in the Early Modern County of Flanders (16th-18th Centuries) Ghent University
This research proposal aims to analyse the professionalisation of medico-legal expertise in the early modern County of Flanders. This objective will primarily be achieved by an analysis of the form and content of autopsy reports produced by medical experts who offered their services to law courts.
Much attention will be paid to comparisons between courts on different institutional levels.
Opening Up Lost Medieval Fortresses in the County of Flanders in 3D KU Leuven
Knowledge creation and knowledge circulation in the Austrian Netherlands: the rinderpest epizootic of 1769 - 1785 in the duchy of Brabant and the county of Flanders. University of Antwerp
Knowledge creation and knowledge circulation in the Austrian Netherlands: the rinderpest epizootic of 1769 - 1785 in the duchy of Brabant and the county of Flanders. University of Antwerp
Knights Templar in the county of Flanders. Formation, implantation and the impact of the patrimony on the landscape (1127-1370) KU Leuven
In the run-up to the Council of Troyes in the year 1129 and shortly after the return of Hugo de Payen to the Champagne region (Fr.) in 1127, the Knights Templar received also various donations in the county of Flanders. The counts of Flanders were among the great donors and many others followed their example. This patrimony was invariably expanded, creating a considerable 'Templar landscape' within the period of 1127-1307. But how did this ...
Out of Clay, laid in Bond. Building with the Brick in the County of Flanders, 1200-1400 KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis examines the introduction and spread of brick architecture in the county of Flanders in the 13th and 14th centuries. By use of building archaeology of existing buildings, supplemented with archaeological and iconographical information about no longer extant monuments, the thesis lifts medieval brick architecture from the determinist view of brick as a cheap substitute for stone, the common explanation for the rise of ...
Lost but revived. A study of medieval grouped rural settlements in the County of Flanders (casus Nieuw-Roeselare). Ghent University
Despite their historically attested importance as centres of agrarian and artisanal production in the
hinterland of the major towns, medieval rural settlements in the County of Flanders have seldom
been at the centre of academic archaeological studies. Only in recent years and building on
important methodological improvements in the field of landscape-archaeology, a more systematic
enquiry into the ...
Lordship and State Formation in the County of Flanders, 15th-18th C. Ghent University
Proceeding from empirical research on the county of Flanders between c. 1470 and c. 1750, this project aims to (i) intervene in current debates on state formation in Europe and (ii) to develop heuristic tools for an extensive, but understudied set of archives that are of great importance for archivists, historians, and heritage specialists in Belgium. Today, the nature and development of pre-modern states is once more the subject of a fierce ...
Podcast 'The princesses of Flanders': an alternative public history of the medieval county Ghent University
Did you always think that women in the Middle Ages had no say in things? That their horizon didn’t stretch beyond the home? Then get ready for the leading ladies of the county of Flanders! Women like the mysterious princess Judith, at the time of the Viking raids, or the genius pair of power players of the Burgundian era, Margaret and Mary. “De vorstinnen van Vlaanderen” brings to life over six hundred years of history, which no one can truly ...