The Craft Guilds are the City. Political Participation in Late Medieval Towns (Brabant and Liège, c. 1360-1500). KU Leuven
This dissertation studies civic political participation in late medieval towns, particularly in the duchy of Brabant and the prince-bishopric of Liège. Via a comparative analysis of three cities (Sint-Truiden, Maastricht and Leuven), this dissertation tackles four sets of research questions. First, which political structures facilitated civic participation in the political process? Which model of governance did these political structures ...