Coordinators

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

• Four annual seminars
• Workshop
• Conference panel/s
• Individual and collective publications

Programme for the 2023/2024 first semester seminar series 

(All sessions take place at 16.00, save for 6 December. Locations vary: check
email announcements.)

28 September
Leen Bervoets (Ghent University)

27 October
Niccolò Zennaro (Antwerp University)

24 November
Sander Govaerts (Ghent University)

6 December
Jonas Roelens and Nathan van Kleij (University of Amsterdam)
Book launch: Middeleeuwse medemensen. De clichés over de donkereceeuwen voorbij
https://ertsberg.be/events/boeklancering-middeleeuwse-medemensen-inamsterdam/

19 December
Luke Stanek (Yale University)

26 January
Mario Damen (University of Amsterdam)

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

Members

Josephine van den Bent
Jan Burgers
Frans Camphuijsen
Alessandra Cianciosi
Mario Damen
Serena Ferente
Sieben Feys
Nathan van Kleij
Christian Manger
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Ester Zoomer

External members

Lola Digard
Léa Hermenault 
Arend Elias Oostindiër
Jim van der Meulen