Projects
Entrepreneurial strategies of building contractors. The case of Antwerp, 1490-1670 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Trust, diversity and quality in the Antwerp tapestry production and trade (1660-1720). An inclusive approach to the social and entrepreneurial strategies of 'coopman-tapissiers' via art historical research and data visualisation and analysis. KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation takes an inclusive look at the Antwerp tapestry industry (1660-1720) through art historical research, data visualisation and data analysis. The study forms part of the research project MapTap (Research Foundation-Flanders/KU Leuven, 2013-2016) ‘Mapping the Antwerp-Brussels-Oudenarde tapestry complex (1600-1700) via network analysis’ (www.maptap.be) and is supervised by Prof Dr Koenraad Brosens (Art History/KU ...
The dynamics of visionary lay devotion. Visions and apparitions in late medieval and early modern miracle books from the Low Countries (1300-1700). University of Antwerp
Rethinking the impact of economic growth: A comparative study of rural market and subaltern economies in early modern Italy (1650-1800) KU Leuven
This project aims to test whether economic growth had a positive influence on prosperity levels in the past. Growth has long been seen as a precondition for high prosperity. However, through the use of GNP figures and real wages, indicators that only record commercial transactions, commercialized companies with economic growth will automatically emerge as more prosperous. This project will develop a new multidimensional prosperity index, to ...
The printer's widow: gender, family and editorial choices in early modern Antwerp, Louvain and Douai (long 16th - 17th centuries) KU Leuven
The early modern printing and publishing business was a man’s world. The new technology of the printing press was associated with men’s work, due to considerable start-up costs and associations with skilled work, literacy, and learned men. Why then, did early modern title pages regularly name women-led businesses as their place of production? This dissertation investigates how women participated in the production and sale of rare books and ...
SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Inequality, Migration and Social Relations in Urban Brabant and Flanders, c. 1350-1914 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Explaining the great litigation decline. The impact of social-economic change on litigation patterns in Bruges and the Liberty of Bruges (1650-1800) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Facing Diversity. Representations of Early Modern Learned Women Writers and the Construction of intellectual and literary authority (1500-1850) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual and literary authority at the dawn of modern science in the early modern era, systematically analyzing printed textual and visual portraits of women writers as agents of public authority. In traditional historiography on women’s contributions to the early modern European ...
A Face of One's Own. Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Intellectual Authority in Early Modern Europe KU Leuven
This project investigates women’s historical effort to embody intellectual authority, by analyzing portraits of learned women as agents of public image in the male-dominated European intellectual field (1550-1800).
The complex position of learned women in the early modern public sphere has been the focus of increased attention. However, recent historical studies are characterized by a strongly biographical and text-based methodology ...