Elisabeth Heijmans unpaid staff Research Elisabeth Heijmans Research team Expertise Elisabeth Heijmans is an economic and social historian specialized in French and Dutch early modern overseas expansions. She is a post-doctoral researcher at the university of Antwerp in the Center for Urban History.…

Jeroen Puttevils associate research professor Research Jeroen Puttevils Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise Medieval history, Middle Ages, Urban history, Economic history, Cultural History, Lottery, history of the future, future thinking, Financial History, Political History Future Plan…

Nicolò Zennaro gastlector - academisch medewerker postdoc Publicaties Nicolò Zennaro "E ve arechordo scriviate per mio amor a Maiolicha" : trading as foreign merchants in late medieval Catalonia (1399-1407) Bron Beyond the gaze: interpreting and understanding the city : proceedings of the AISU Int…

Jeroen Puttevils Starting Grant 2019 How our ancestors viewed the future What did people in the past think about the future and how did this affect their actions? This is the question the EU-funded Back2theFuture project will try to answer. It will draw on a highly innovative combination of close an…

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Workshop on 'Cities of Commerce' Commerce & Urban Rivalry in the Low Countries, 1250-1650 This workshop collects a varied selection of scholarly specialists to reflect on the topic of Oscar Gelderblom’s recent book 'Cities of Commerce'. The works…

Jeroen Puttevils associate research professor About Jeroen Puttevils Jeroen Puttevils Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. +3232659402 Sint-Jacobsmarkt 13 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Jeroen Puttevils studies urban societies in the late medieval and 16th-century Low Countries, with a focus on the inte…

Nicolò Zennaro guest lecturer - academic interim staff postdoc Publications Nicolò Zennaro "E ve arechordo scriviate per mio amor a Maiolicha" : trading as foreign merchants in late medieval Catalonia (1399-1407) Source Beyond the gaze: interpreting and understanding the city : proceedings of the …

Tammo Wallinga unpaid guest prof. Research Tammo Wallinga Research team Business and Law Expertise Roman Law and its reception, especially editions of medieval source material. Bringing company law (back) to the future: commercial partnerships between flexibility and asset shielding (17th-18th, and …

Back to the Future search menu search content Case studies From the eighteenth century onwards, the future was considered as open, uncertain and constructible – the way we tend to perceive the future today. In contrast, early modern Europeans believed that the future was beyond the control of man.…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Sam Shuman Cutting out the Middleman: A Hasidic Enclave in Economic Transition Drs. Sam Shuman Mentor: Prof. Vivia Liska Drs. Sam Shuman was visiting research student in the period 2017-2019. Research exploring changes in the contemporary workpl…

Back to the Future search menu search content Back to the Future Future expectations and actions in late medieval and early modern Europe, c.1400-c.1830 How our ancestors viewed the future What did people in the past think about the future and how did this affect their actions? This is the question …

Back to the Future search menu search content Team members Jeroen Puttevils Jeroen Puttevils (° 1985) is Principal Investigator of the Back to the Future project and lecturer at the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp. He specializes in the history of urban societies, the interact…

Christine Fertig unpaid staff Research Christine Fertig Research team Centre for Urban History Expertise In my PhD I have developed a research focus on the history of family, households, social networks, and social inequality in rural society. Over the last few years, I have also developed this rese…

Management search menu search content Innovative Port Ecosystems (Project SPEED) Project name: Smart Port Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development Project Type: Interreg 2 Seas* Project partners: Antwerp Management School (lead partner), Universiteit Antwerpen, Université de Lille, Stichting Katholiek…

Instituut Joodse Studies zoeken menu zoek inhoud Sam Shuman Cutting out the Middleman: A Hasidic Enclave in Economic Transition Drs. Sam Shuman Mentor: Prof. Vivia Liska Drs. Sam Shuman was visiting research student in de periode 2017-2019. Research exploring changes in the contemporary workplace ha…

Scientific talent scores three prestigious grants Young UAntwerp researchers receive starting grants from the European Research Council Three young scientists from the University of Antwerp will receive ‘starting grants’ from the European Research Council. These are amongst the most prestigious …

Back to the Future search menu search content Project bibliography Throughout the project we have built a bibliography that can serve the scholarly community interested in the following subjects: - histories of the future/futures - theories of history - histories of merchants and merchant correspond…

DiplomatiCon-net search menu search content Research Focus The seminar series addresses several interconnected themes in medieval diplomatic studies. One central concern is how diplomatic language evolved and adapted across different cultural contexts. For instance, the opening presentation examines…

Antwerp Time Machine search menu search content Rapid developments Antwerp Time Machine Currently, research teams from the University of Antwerp are at the forefront of both Urban History, Digital Humanities and Computer Linguistics & robotica. Since 2011, the GIStorical Antwerp project is reconstru…

Back to the Future search menu search content Back to the Future Conference Presentations are available online You can now watch the papers presented at our conference "Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond" online by clicking on the links bel…

Peter Stabel full professor Research Peter Stabel Research team Centre for Urban History A single pattern? Reassessing the medieval origins and development of the European Marriage Pattern in the County of Flanders (1300-1600). 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2027 Abstract In recent years, the European Marriage …

Tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis zoeken menu zoek inhoud 2013 - 1 - Stadsgeschiedenis Stadsgeschiedenis editie 2013 - 1 Alexander Soetaert & Bram Vannieuwenhuyze Middeleeuws Namen aan Samber en/of Maas. Beeldvorming en vooringenomenheid in stadstopografisch onderzoek Ellen Debackere Winkelhouden in een…

Shock Cities search menu search content General information Region Late medieval county of Flanders The studied region, the County of Flanders in the 14th century, is characterised by a highly urbanised landscape. Together with northern-Italy, it is considered as the most urbanised region in late me…

DiplomatiCon-net search menu search content Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean Workshop University of Antwerp, September 18-19, 2025 DiplomatiCon Workshop Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean DiplomatiCon Project (Power in History…

Back to the Future search menu search content Presentations Past Futures I : an Individual Perspective on Temporality and Future Practice(s) Some of our team members presented their research at the European Social Science History Conference in Göteborg on the 14th of April 2023. Jeroen opened the f…