Projects
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
'With his theatre he urged people to remember their duties'. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Marriage as Partnership: The Legal Position of MarriedWomen in the Sixteenth-Century Southern Low Countries Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650 Ghent University
This project engages with one of the most important enigmas in the history of pre-modern societies, namely the presumed impact of elite constraints on economic development. Capitalizing on a fortuitous conflux of expertise and exceptional sources, this project compares patterns of lordship with patterns of economic growth in the various regions of the Low Countries in c. 1350-1650.
Spaces of politics: conflict and the city in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
This dissertation studies the spatiality of citizens’ political practice in late medieval cities (1300-1500). It builds on research that has extended late medieval urban politics beyond the practice of government to encompass acts of protest and resistance and to include people who had no formal access to government. It builds, also, on theories that view space as a social product and, at times, even a social actor, that has a profound role ...
Negotiating Group Identities Along Ethnicity and Religion. Case: On- and Offline Networks in The Low Countries. KU Leuven
At a time when ethnic inter-group attitudes are changing, uneven integration of (and within) ethnic cultural minorities in general and Muslims in particular into the socioeconomic life of European host countries and conflicting values are becoming increasingly important, fuelling antagonism between majority and minority groups. This research aims to increase our understanding of how Muslim ethnic-cultural minorities share knowledge, values ...
The economics of court life. The interaction of court and the city in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Displays of Desire: Imagineering Consumption in Comedies of the Low Countries (1650-1725) Ghent University
Displays of Desire aims to gain insight into how early modern Dutch comedies represent the idea of consumption and desire through theatrical imagination. Doing so, the project not only highlights the importance of a neglected genre in Dutch literary historiography, but it also aims to contribute to scholarly fields that stress the importance of desire and imagination in early modern consumption culture, without, however, paying much attention ...