Amsterdam Medievalists Network
Coordinator
Research description
This group comprises historians of the later Middle Ages (c. 1000-1500) working across and beyond Western Europe, including France, England, Italy, Iberia, the Near East and, of course, the Low Countries. We explore questions related to identity formation (including territoriality and health), social dynamics (including communication), political representation, legitimation and resistance, and the role that texts, rituals, the built environment and material culture played in shaping them.
Activities
25-9, 16.00, Kartinizaal: Jim van der Meulen (Huygens ING), Sand, Sheep, and Fire: Animal-Human Relations in the Production of the Veluwe Heathlands
30-10, 16.00, Kartinizaal: Jelle Haemers (KULeuven), Women and political contention in the fifteenth-century Southern Low Countries
27-11: Mediëvistendag, VU: https://medievalstudies.nl/events/medieval-studies-day-2026-1-ects/
18-12, 16.00: Mario Damen (UvA), Velden van eer. Het schrijven van een publieksboek over de middeleeuwen
20-1, 12.00-15.00: Amsterdam Medievalists Network Event. Come and join us for a free lunch, presentations and brainstorming on activities, new research plans and publications!
23-4-2027, 16.00-17.30: Guy Geltner (Monash), Work Environments and Environments at Work: A New Approach to Community Health in the Premodern Globe
2/4-6-2027, Kartinizaal: Female Spaces in the Medieval World: For more information see: https://medievalstudies.nl/cfp-female-spaces-in-the-medieval-world/
At this moment members of the research group participate in three externally funded projects:
- Managing multi-level conflicts in commercial cities in Northern Europe (C. 1350-1570) (NWO). PI: Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
- Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty in the Low Countries (1400-1570) (NWO). PI: Mario Damen
- Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650 (ERC/Universiteit Gent). PhD-student: Sieben Feys
Research projects
At this moment members of the research group participate in three projects financed by NWO and ERC:
- Managing multi-level conflicts in commercial cities in Northern Europe (C. 1350-1570) (NWO). PI: Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
- Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650 (Turin Humanities Program). PI: Serena Ferente
- Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty in the Low Countries (1400-1570) (NWO). PI: Mario Damen
- Source of Life. Water Management in the Premodern Middle East (7th-15th c.) (NWO/RU Nijmegen). Postdoc: Josephine van den Bent
- Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650 (ERC/Universiteit Gent). PhD-student: Sieben Feys