Projects
Romantic Silence: Voice and Identity in British Poetry, 1789-1850 KU Leuven
Beyond the retail revolution? Shopping culture and city landscape, Brussels 1830-1914. KU Leuven
This book is about the history of the Brussels shopping landscape during the nineteenth century. Although the increasing commercialization of the nineteenth-century urban landscape has long been a topos in historiography, the entirety and diversity of shopping spaces has not yet been the object of thorough research. For decades, historians of retail and shopping have mostly been concerned with ‘modern’ forms of retail, such as the ...
Belgian Expansion in Congo and Brazil: Colonial Entanglements trough the Movement of People, Perceptions, and Performances in an Atlantic Space (1880-1914). KU Leuven
African and Latin American colonial histories differ strongly. While European powers divided Africa during the late nineteenth-century wave of 'New Imperialism', Latin American countries had become independent over half a century earlier. But, African and Latin American histories were also entangled: first through a century long slave trade (16th to mid-19th century), then through simultaneous European expansion in both regions (late 19th and ...
Bringing company law (back) to the future: commercial partnerships between flexibility and asset shielding (17th-18th, and 21st century). University of Antwerp
Subsidiary social provision before the welfare state. Political theory and social policy in nineteenth-century Belgium KU Leuven
This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the policy origins and the ideological origins of the Belgian welfare state. The historical origins of the Belgian modern welfare state are often traced back to the introduction of social insurances in national legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this legislation only confirmed a system that had ...
Devilish displeasure: a networked history of exorcism in modern Flanders KU Leuven
Devilish displeasure’ offers the first sociocultural history of exorcism in Flanders. ‘The labour of Satan’, as demonic possession was often called, was seemingly never done in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Flanders. In a first instance, this study will map the networks of involved actors: the possessed and the exorcist, but also the demon, the onlookers, the Church, the doctor, the press. As MarÃa Tausiet (2002) and Ruth Harris (1997) ...