Elias Feys
@eliasfeys.bsky.social
PhD-candidate @ KU Leuven/ULille - Late medieval women and gender in Burgundian Pardon Letters
🤡Today's find: On 24 July 1510, Jacques Hallinc dressed as a jester during a festival in Bruges. He wore ragged women’s clothes and carried a fool’s staff, playfully tapping people and joking around. On Vlamingdam, a crowd gathered, including Marguerite of Vlissingen (more below)
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October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🤡Today's find: On 24 July 1510, Jacques Hallinc dressed as a jester during a festival in Bruges. He wore ragged women’s clothes and carried a fool’s staff, playfully tapping people and joking around. On Vlamingdam, a crowd gathered, including Marguerite of Vlissingen (more below)
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My very first article now appeared in print! 😄
🛼 It features what is likely the most unconventional footnote I will ever publish: possible evidence of the earliest roller skate
More importantly, it explores legal strategies that secured pardon in cases of late #medieval spousal #femicide
🛼 It features what is likely the most unconventional footnote I will ever publish: possible evidence of the earliest roller skate
More importantly, it explores legal strategies that secured pardon in cases of late #medieval spousal #femicide
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September 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Six weeks ago, I wrote an op-ed on extreme intrafamilial violence and #femicide. Since then, five (!) new Belgian cases hit major media—many more go unseen. What do we do when we see or suspect #intimatepartnerviolence in our circles? I turned to the late #MiddleAges for insight.
‘Zijt gij een man van eer als gij dit laat gebeuren?’: waarom we ook vandaag niet mogen zwijgen bij partnergeweld
Elias Feys is historicus en doctoraatsonderzoeker aan de KU Leuven en de Université de Lille. Hij onderzoekt onder meer laatmiddeleeuws intrafamiliaal geweld en huwelijksmoorden.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Six weeks ago, I wrote an op-ed on extreme intrafamilial violence and #femicide. Since then, five (!) new Belgian cases hit major media—many more go unseen. What do we do when we see or suspect #intimatepartnerviolence in our circles? I turned to the late #MiddleAges for insight.
My very first academic publication was released today! 🎉
I explore the topic of marital violence in late medieval Burgundian pardon letters. The article examines the (gendered) strategies men used to excuse violence against their wives
#gender #medieval #medievalsky #history #violence #femicide
I explore the topic of marital violence in late medieval Burgundian pardon letters. The article examines the (gendered) strategies men used to excuse violence against their wives
#gender #medieval #medievalsky #history #violence #femicide
“A Hot-tempered, Capricious, Jealous and Compassionless wife”: Marital Conflicts and Homicide in Pardon Letters of Burgundy and the Low Countries (1450–1535) - Elias Feys, 2025
This study examines marital homicide in late medieval Burgundian pardon letters (1450–1535). These letters offer detailed narratives on marriages gone wrong, of...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
💭I wrote an opinion piece on femicide for the largest BE quality newspaper
🎤“For over five centuries, women have been murdered by their (ex)partners, and time and again, perpetrators and their defenders manage to hijack the narrative, presenting themselves as victims [...]”
🇬🇧👇English translation
🎤“For over five centuries, women have been murdered by their (ex)partners, and time and again, perpetrators and their defenders manage to hijack the narrative, presenting themselves as victims [...]”
🇬🇧👇English translation
“Het was niet zo bedoeld”: al 500 jaar slagen daders van femicide erin zichzelf te verkopen als slachtoffer
Femicide is iets van alle tijden en steeds weer slagen de daders erin zich te presenteren als slachtoffers die ‘de liefde van hun leven’ verloren, schrijft Elias Feys. “Het wordt hoog tijd het narratief te kantelen.”
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May 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
💭I wrote an opinion piece on femicide for the largest BE quality newspaper
🎤“For over five centuries, women have been murdered by their (ex)partners, and time and again, perpetrators and their defenders manage to hijack the narrative, presenting themselves as victims [...]”
🇬🇧👇English translation
🎤“For over five centuries, women have been murdered by their (ex)partners, and time and again, perpetrators and their defenders manage to hijack the narrative, presenting themselves as victims [...]”
🇬🇧👇English translation
Finally made the switch from Twitter to Bluesky! To celebrate this, a small thread about a recent find in the Archives Départementales du Nord. I just happened to stumble upon a pardon letter describing a crime that took place in the very village where I was born and raised—what a coincidence! (1/5)
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Finally made the switch from Twitter to Bluesky! To celebrate this, a small thread about a recent find in the Archives Départementales du Nord. I just happened to stumble upon a pardon letter describing a crime that took place in the very village where I was born and raised—what a coincidence! (1/5)