The social renewal and aristocratization of urban elites in late medieval Flanders.

This project adresses the composition of urban elites of late medieval society and the changes which took place in this period in the definition and social renewal of those elites. By means of a research project which focuses on elite formation on large and medium-sized cities of the country of Flanders, new insights can be obtained for an important aspect of the social and political history of the premodern Low Countries.