Projects
Investigating investigations. Political expectations in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
Lords, land, and labour. The influence of seigneuries on economic development in the late medieval Low Countries (c. 1350 – c. 1550) Ghent University
This project probes the impact of political elites on pre-modern economies. The central concept is the seigneurie, the institution that cemented the rural elite’s power over populations in the countryside. Seigneuries impacted upon the rural economy through their powers of surplus extraction that proceeded from coercion rather than market exchange. Yet, while elite rent-seeking infringed on the income of the peasantry, the macro-economic ...
Peasants into Stewards. Leasehold and Environmental Stewardship in the Late Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1400. University of Antwerp
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
Spiritual Role-Play as Technology of Self: An Interdisciplinary Pioneer Study of a Devotional Practice from the Late Medieval Low Countries (SRP). University of Antwerp
Generational conflicts: household and kin relations in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
Sabbatical Wim François: Bible Translation and Bible Reading in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries KU Leuven
The further rendering of an English-language monograph with the history of vernacular Bible translations in the Netherlands, from the late medieval spiritual reform movements to the period of the Counter-Reformation, is urgently needed. It should focus on its genesis against the background of the religious reform movements between 1400 and 1550, which influence text and para text, theological discussions and censorship measures, as well as ...