Rethinking the decline-thesis: the diminishing position of woman in an urban context during the late middle ages KU Leuven
In my PhD project, titled Dismantling the Borders, I have compared women's labour opportunities in Brabant and Biscay in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Since the 1980s, scholars have debated differences in women's economic positions between premodern northern and southern Europe. Scholars arguing for such differences have often explained them based on diverging legal frameworks and family structures in the two regions. ...