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Urban Political Elites and the Birth of the Ancien Regime in the Southern Low Countries (14th to 16th century) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
El discurso del señorío nobiliario entre las ciudades y el Estado en el Flandes del siglo XV Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Constructing and Deconstructing the "State" Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
The birth of the Low Countries is a thorny issue since the rise of history as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, and the problem is likely to haunt historians for some time to come. From the eleventh century onwards, the patchwork of principalities that had emerged between France and the German Empire acquired a distinct cachet as most of these principalities became exceptionally urbanized. As Flanders, Brabant, Guelders, Holland, ...
Social Mobility in the Medieval Low Countries, 1100-1600 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Samenleven in de stad Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Record Keeping and Status Performance in the Early Modern Low Countries Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
La Loge des Bourgeois de Bruges. Les stratégies de distinction d’une élite commerçante cosmopolite Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lordship, urbanisation and social change in late medieval Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
The Transformation of Rural Elites in Late Medieval Flanders. Oligarchy, State Formation and Social Change in the Liberty of Bruges (ca. 1350 – ca. 1525) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
Proceeding from an in-depth analysis of the Liberty of Bruges, an important rural district in the late medieval Low Countries, this contribution frames rural elite formation by means of two debates which are seldom used in combination, namely, the debates on state building and on the commercialisation of rural society. We challenge the thesis, inspired by modernisation theory, that socio-economic transformation engendered political change in ...