Projects
Medieval urban toponymy in the duchy of Brabant, a mirror of urban development? Ghent University
This research focuses on medieval town development within the former duchty of Brabant. Surprisingly often, identical toponyms appeared in medieval towns. It is my ambition to explain this intriguing phenomenon and to gain new insight in medieval town development and the multiple uses of public space.
The Generation Game. Age, Gender and Power in the Late Medieval Low Countries. KU Leuven
Generational conflicts: household and kin relations in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
The Magna Moralia and its Contribution to Medieval Moral Philosophy KU Leuven
The social renewal and aristocratization of urban elites in late medieval Flanders. Ghent University
This project adresses the composition of urban elites of late medieval society and the changes which took place in this period in the definition and social renewal of those elites. By means of a research project which focuses on elite formation on large and medium-sized cities of the country of Flanders, new insights can be obtained for an important aspect of the social and political history of the premodern Low Countries.
Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies Ghent University
This project aims at hiring a research coordinator for medieval studies at Ghent University.
Who is who in late medieval Brussels? KU Leuven
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 ...