Titel Deelnemers "Korte inhoud" "Macht in de Metropool" "Janna Everaert" "Abstract not available." "Power in the metropolis" "Janna Everaert" "Current historiography endorses a narrative that the political elite of pre-industrial gateway cities became more 'open' in the wake of efflorescence and that their city councils became populated with merchants. Yet, according to the existing literature, Antwerp challenges this narrative, as the influx of merchants was very limited during late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries when Antwerp transformed from a medium-sized Brabantine city into the leading economic centre in western Europe. Moreover, scholars disagree on whether the economic expansion had any impact at all on the composition and profile of Antwerp's political elite. By analysing the social composition of the city council and how this evolved from the beginning of Antwerp's commercial expansion around 1400 until its apogee around 1550, I revisit the question whether Antwerp constitutes an exception to the established pattern of elite formation in gateway cities and, if so, why." "Returning urban political elites to the research agenda" "Frederik Buylaert, Jelten Baguet, Janna Everaert" "This article provides a comparative analysis of four large towns in the Southern Low Countries between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Combining the data on Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp - each of which is discussed in greater detail in the articles in this special section - with recent research on Bruges, the authors argue against the historiographical trend in which the political history of late medieval towns is supposedly dominated by a trend towards oligarchy. Rather than a closure of the ruling class, the four towns show a high turnover in the social composition of the political elite, and a consistent trend towards aristocracy, in which an increasingly large number of aldermen enjoyed noble status. The intensity of these trends differed from town to town, and was tied to different institutional configurations as well as different economic and political developments in each of the four towns." "Jan Lampo, Gelukkige stad. De gouden jaren van Antwerpen (1485-1585)" "Janna Everaert" "Stadsgeschiedenis in Belgische en Nederlandse historische tijdschriften (2015)" "Pieter De Graef, Arie van Steensel, Jelten Baguet, Janna Everaert, Dirk Lueb, Wout Saelens, Laurence Van Goethem, Wout Vande Sompele, Thomas Verbruggen, Boris Horemans, Iason Jongepier" "The game of power. The Broechoven family and the political and economic elite in 's Hertogenbosch between 1579 and 1629" "Janna Everaert"