Projects
Cultural trade between the Southern Netherlands and New Spain. A history of transatlantic book circuits and book consumption in the early modern age. KU Leuven
'No world without the stars': Astrology and Society in the SpanishHabsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt (1560s-1640s). University of Antwerp
The infrastructure of globalisation: the Southern Netherlands as translation centre for the Spanish-Portuguese monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. KU Leuven
'No world without the stars': Astrology and Society in the SpanishHabsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt (1560s-1640s). University of Antwerp
Hispano-Flemish elites in the Habsburg Netherlands. Transregional marriages and mixed identities, 1659-1708. KU Leuven
The Netherlands in the news. Italian messages, opinions and histories about the Eighty Years'War (ca. 1560 - ca. 1640). KU Leuven
Books from the Low Countries in Colonial Colombia and Bolivia KU Leuven
The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. The knowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively in the shape of printed books and engravings. On the other side, the printed book was the medium by excellence by which European knowledge was taken to the most remote parts of the earth. Printing houses in the Southern Netherlands played an ...
Reprisals and use of force under the law of nations (13th-18th centuries) KU Leuven
Forcible reprisals constitute a crucial, inherent part of the tradition of use of force in Western international law. A distinction needs to be made between historic reprisals (13th-18th centuries) and modern reprisals, which emerged around the turn of the 19th century. Whereas modern forcible reprisals entail the use of force by a state against another state in retaliation of a prior violation of an international right, historic forcible ...