Bram Hilkens
@bramhilkens.bsky.social
Economic history - Preindustrial inequality - Early modern Holland - Unrelated near-dangerous music obsession
Excellent work by Marcus, super interesting for historians working on wealth, consumption, and living standards!
The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects.
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South-Sweden Probate Inventory Database, 1570–1860
Lund University. Both labourers and farmers improved their material living standards – as measured by the contents of probate inventories – but the labouring households’ ownership of means of producti...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Excellent work by Marcus, super interesting for historians working on wealth, consumption, and living standards!
Our special issue of the History of the Family is out!
Recent literature has stressed the various long-term impacts (or lack thereof) of epidemics in history. While new work on this is still welcome, we suggest that the direct costs associated with epidemics deserve additional scholarly attention.
Recent literature has stressed the various long-term impacts (or lack thereof) of epidemics in history. While new work on this is still welcome, we suggest that the direct costs associated with epidemics deserve additional scholarly attention.
The History of the Family
Household Family and the Community Response to the Direct Costs of Epidemics. Volume 30, Issue 3 of The History of the Family
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August 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Our special issue of the History of the Family is out!
Recent literature has stressed the various long-term impacts (or lack thereof) of epidemics in history. While new work on this is still welcome, we suggest that the direct costs associated with epidemics deserve additional scholarly attention.
Recent literature has stressed the various long-term impacts (or lack thereof) of epidemics in history. While new work on this is still welcome, we suggest that the direct costs associated with epidemics deserve additional scholarly attention.
Super interesting paper by @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social on urban-rural flight, population turnover, and wealth-holding after two eighteenth-century plague outbreaks in Transylvania!
Part of our special issue on the direct costs of epidemic mortality, which should be out very soon.
Part of our special issue on the direct costs of epidemic mortality, which should be out very soon.
Finally out, on the economic impact of plague on remaining households (wealth& income) in early 18thC Hermannstadt(Transylvania). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #econhist #skystorians
Bearing the costs of epidemics: remaining households in Hermannstadt/Sibiu during the 1719–1720 and 1738–1739 plague outbreaks
The present study explores the converging levels at which the direct costs of plague were incurred during the first half of the eighteenth century in Hermannstadt (nowadays Sibiu), the second large...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Super interesting paper by @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social on urban-rural flight, population turnover, and wealth-holding after two eighteenth-century plague outbreaks in Transylvania!
Part of our special issue on the direct costs of epidemic mortality, which should be out very soon.
Part of our special issue on the direct costs of epidemic mortality, which should be out very soon.
Happy to share that my article on the redistributive effects of epidemic mortality is now published in The History of the Family!
It adds to the literature on preindustrial inequality by investigating redistribution of land in the wake of the 1655-6 plague epidemic in Hazerswoude, Holland. (1/12)
It adds to the literature on preindustrial inequality by investigating redistribution of land in the wake of the 1655-6 plague epidemic in Hazerswoude, Holland. (1/12)
Mortality, morcellation, and the market: the impact of epidemic disease mortality on land distribution in a seventeenth-century-Holland village
The current article aims to explain the distributional consequences of epidemic mortality by assessing the relationship between post-epidemic land redistribution and land market exchange for one vi...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy to share that my article on the redistributive effects of epidemic mortality is now published in The History of the Family!
It adds to the literature on preindustrial inequality by investigating redistribution of land in the wake of the 1655-6 plague epidemic in Hazerswoude, Holland. (1/12)
It adds to the literature on preindustrial inequality by investigating redistribution of land in the wake of the 1655-6 plague epidemic in Hazerswoude, Holland. (1/12)
Vond Hollands 'Gouden Eeuw' plaats ondanks, of dankzij de Tachtigjarige Oorlog? Wie profiteerde daarvan? Wat voor gevolgen heeft dat voor ons begrip van economische ongelijkheid in het verleden? Zie mijn discussiestuk over Marjolein 't Harts Oorlog en ongelijkheid in @tseglowcountries.bsky.social.
Verschillende ongelijkheden? The new history of old inequality en Oorlog en ongelijkheid
| TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economi...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Vond Hollands 'Gouden Eeuw' plaats ondanks, of dankzij de Tachtigjarige Oorlog? Wie profiteerde daarvan? Wat voor gevolgen heeft dat voor ons begrip van economische ongelijkheid in het verleden? Zie mijn discussiestuk over Marjolein 't Harts Oorlog en ongelijkheid in @tseglowcountries.bsky.social.
Stef’s is the first paper out for our upcoming special issue on the short-term economic effects of epidemics—stay tuned!
🚨New publication alert🚨
My study on the short-term changes in purchasing power in the county of Flanders during the Black Death and two subsequent plague outbreaks is now out in The History of the Family. doi.org/10.1080/1081...
#BlackDeath #plague #hunger #purchasingpower #medievalstudies
1/11 🧵
My study on the short-term changes in purchasing power in the county of Flanders during the Black Death and two subsequent plague outbreaks is now out in The History of the Family. doi.org/10.1080/1081...
#BlackDeath #plague #hunger #purchasingpower #medievalstudies
1/11 🧵
Plague and hunger. Epidemic-induced pressures on household purchasing power in fourteenth-century Flanders
In the late Middle Ages, surging grain prices frequently triggered subsistence crises, as grain was the primary staple of nutrition. When these price shocks coincided with major mortality peaks fro...
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March 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Stef’s is the first paper out for our upcoming special issue on the short-term economic effects of epidemics—stay tuned!
Great to see this paper published!
I have a published paper! Read all about the development of rural household production in southern Sweden over the 18th and 19th centuries, and how it seems like everyone started spinning here in the 1700s. #earlymodern
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Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: evidence from rural Swedish probates | Rural History | Cambridge Core
Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: evidence from rural Swedish probates
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February 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Great to see this paper published!
Happy to see this paper by Daniel Curtis and Bram van Besouw on lifecycle strategies of landholding finally out in the EHR!
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land di...
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December 10, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Happy to see this paper by Daniel Curtis and Bram van Besouw on lifecycle strategies of landholding finally out in the EHR!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...