Projects
RETHINKIN – Family and family law studies in the Low Countries University of Antwerp
RETHINKIN_ Rethinking Family and Family Law in the Low Countries Hasselt University
Diodorus Tuldenus (c. 1590-1645) and the Development of Natural and Public Law in the Habsburg Low Countries. KU Leuven
The imperial expansion to the Indies and the dissatisfaction with absolutism were major societal convulsions that marked the early modern period. In response to them, moral theologians of the School of Salamanca developed a Catholic theory of natural rights. However, as the confessional strife had become overly antagonistic, in the first half of the 17th century scholars pleaded for a secularisation of natural law doctrine, which eventually ...
A woman's lot. Women's participation in the public sphere in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries (1450-1650) by means of lottery-rhymes. University of Antwerp
Sharp tongues. Contentious speech and urban politics in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
This project offers an innovative perspective on medieval insurgency. An in-depth analysis of the 'illicit speech' of commoners will reveal whether the role of urban commoners in sustaining and spreading contentious beliefs was an essential one. Instead of considering protestors as violent rebels whose collective actions were harmful to political progress, as scholarship has often done in the past, this project sees citizens as creative ...
Transnational Normativity in an Age of Estrangement. Loans and Credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Northern and Southern Low Countries (ca. 1500-1680). KU Leuven
In the early modern period, the Low Countries performed a key role in trade and commerce on the European continent. In their ‘Golden Ages’, Antwerp and Amsterdam attracted merchants from all over Europe, and even beyond. The development of commerce and finance within this transregional reality raised new normative questions on how to deal with novel financial techniques. At the same time, public, private and ecclesiastical debtors were in a ...
Spiritual Role-Play as a Tool for Inner Transformation: A Pioneer Study of a Devotional Practice from the Late Medieval Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Family's wishes, children's choice. Parental authority over marriage formation and the consumption of justice in the late medieval Low Countries. KU Leuven
Church law explicitly allowed individuals to marry without familial consent from the twelfth century onwards. That much we know, but what impact did these canon law rules had in a society characterized by strategic marriage? In this dissertation, I engage with this scholarly debate by examining partner choice conflicts, particularly abductions for marriage, within middling sorts of families in the late medieval Low Countries. It is in such ...