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The emergence of a 'modern' labour market? Tracing rural labourers in an early modern commercial farming system: the Waasland polder area (1650-1850) University of Antwerp
Present-day rural history is still dominated by the debates on the transition from a feudal agrarian system, into a peasant society and finally into a capitalist economy. In this process, farmers of polder regions are considered to be pioneers, paving the way to commercial orientated monoculture. A key element in this transformation process is the emergence of wage labour on the countryside, revealing the rise of full grown markets.This project ...
Contention. Urban petitions and communal politics in late medieval Europe KU Leuven
This project offers an innovative perspective on medieval insurgency. Instead of considering protestors as rebels inclined to violence, as scholarship has often done in the past, this project sees them as creative voices calling for change and good governance from the authorities. For far too long the history of protest in preindustrial Europe and the Middle East has been a violent narrative that dismissed the collective actions of citizens as ...
The significance, scope and limits of mathematical knowledge KU Leuven
The topic of my research project is the significance, scope and limits of a priori knowledge. The background against which my project is set consists of new general theories about knowledge. These theories add a so-called 'subjunctive' condition to knowledge. For instance, to know in a certain situation that it rains it must be the case that in all situations that are very similar to the given situation and in which one believes that it ...
Micro-economic analysis of the textile trade around 1500 in Bruges and Antwerp: the double-entry account ledgers of Wouter Ameide (1498-1507). University of Antwerp
This project will use methods from economic analysis (micro-economic analysis and accountancy) and social and economic history to assess the management of business in the first half of the 16th century and shed a new light on the introduction of new productivity enhancing techniques (more efficient methods of controlling information) in periods of great economic change (decline of the Bruges and growth of the Antwerp market).