Medievalists.net » Holland http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Living la vita apostolica: Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/28/living-la-vita-apostolica-life-expectancy-mortality-nuns-late-medieval-holland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/28/living-la-vita-apostolica-life-expectancy-mortality-nuns-late-medieval-holland/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:34:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51420 Living la vita apostolica: Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland Jaco Zuijderduijn (Utrecht University ) Centre for Global Economic History: Utrecht University, Working Paper No. 44, June (2013) Abstract Data on vital events of medieval women are extremely scarce. We use a dataset based on a necrology of nuns in late-medieval Holland […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/28/living-la-vita-apostolica-life-expectancy-mortality-nuns-late-medieval-holland/feed/ 0 Into the frontier: medieval land reclamation and the creation of new societies. Comparing Holland and the Po Valley, 800-1500 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/into-the-frontier-medieval-land-reclamation-and-the-creation-of-new-societies-comparing-holland-and-the-po-valley-800-1500/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/into-the-frontier-medieval-land-reclamation-and-the-creation-of-new-societies-comparing-holland-and-the-po-valley-800-1500/#comments Sun, 29 Sep 2013 09:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43938 In the paper it is shown that medieval land reclamation led to the emergence of two very divergent societies, characterised by a number of different configurations; (a) power and property structure, (b) modes of exploitation, (c) economic portfolios, and (d) commodity markets.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/into-the-frontier-medieval-land-reclamation-and-the-creation-of-new-societies-comparing-holland-and-the-po-valley-800-1500/feed/ 0 The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/10/the-anna-selbdritt-in-late-medieval-germany-meaning-and-function-of-religious-image/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/10/the-anna-selbdritt-in-late-medieval-germany-meaning-and-function-of-religious-image/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:58:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43501 The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image Virginia Nixon Doctor of Philosophy, Concordia University, School of Graduate Studies, Montreal, Canada (1997) Abstract In the decades between 1480 and 1520 the production of images of Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child increased in Germany and the Netherlands in […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/10/the-anna-selbdritt-in-late-medieval-germany-meaning-and-function-of-religious-image/feed/ 0 In search of the medieval ‘Anonymous’ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/20/in-search-of-the-medieval-anonymous/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/20/in-search-of-the-medieval-anonymous/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:07:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40657 The extent of fifteenth-century historical works from the Low Countries can be deduced and accessed by historians through www.narrative-sources.be, the online encyclopedia of narrative sources from the medieval Low Countries. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle contains similar entries on history works in all of medieval Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/20/in-search-of-the-medieval-anonymous/feed/ 0 Elite and government in medieval Leiden http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/elite-and-government-in-medieval-leiden/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/elite-and-government-in-medieval-leiden/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:01:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39710 The development of Leiden's 61ite is traced up to 1420. The siege of the city in that year and the assumption of power by Jan van Beieren resulted in important changes in the urban government: the faction of the Hoeken finally lost ascendancy and the viscount of Leiden ceased to have control over the city's administration.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/elite-and-government-in-medieval-leiden/feed/ 0 The Elusive Netherlands. The question of national identity in the Early Modern Low Countries on the Eve of the Revolt http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/13/the-elusive-netherlands-the-question-of-national-identity-in-the-early-modern-low-countries-on-the-eve-of-the-revolt/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/13/the-elusive-netherlands-the-question-of-national-identity-in-the-early-modern-low-countries-on-the-eve-of-the-revolt/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:04:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32723 The identity of the Low Countries was also muddied by contemporary debates about the correspondence between ‘Gallia’ and France and between ‘Germania’ and ‘Deutschland’.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/13/the-elusive-netherlands-the-question-of-national-identity-in-the-early-modern-low-countries-on-the-eve-of-the-revolt/feed/ 0 Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/12/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/12/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland-2/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:48:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32679 As I have shown elsewhere, the county of Holland underwent a structural change in the second half of the fourteenth century, when economically the emphasis shifted from agriculture to trade and industry and demographically from the country to the towns. The institutions however did not change.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/12/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland-2/feed/ 0 ‘Low’ culture, laymen, and what we can learn from history http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/01/low-culture-laymen-and-what-we-can-learn-from-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/01/low-culture-laymen-and-what-we-can-learn-from-history/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:57:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28982 Historical evidence shows strong interaction between philosophy and the emancipation of the common man or the rise of popular culture in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Early Modernity

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