For @imc-leeds.bsky.social, I created two maps that highlight the explosion of census-taking in the Low Countries before vs. after the mid-15th century. This development follows Burgundian hearth count reforms but is also present in areas outside Burgundian rule. #MedievalSky

Another presentation at the #wehc2025 in Lund (30 July 11:00), delivered w/ @arievansteensel.bsky.social, will focus on the late medieval economic geography of the County of Holland and the impact of feudal lords on this economic landscape, building on our work published earlier this yr #medievalsky

This work is part of my project on the population geography of the Low Countries: '(Re)counting the Uncounted'. At the #wehc2025 in Lund, 31 July 8:30, I will present the project's main focus: the methodology and population estimates.

Conference season is starting: this Monday I'll be presenting at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and at the end of the month at #wehc2025 in Lund. At the IMC I will focus on the relationship between census taking and territorialisation in the late medieval Low Countries. #medievalsky #imc2025

Coming to Leiden for the @esshc.bsky.social next week? We’re organising an early morning run around the old town on Wednesday. Start at ‘Molen de Valk’ at 06:30, to ensure you’ll be able to be back in time for the first sessions. See also esshc.iisg.amsterdam @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

It has been out for a while, but it’s never too late to celebrate a new publication (doi.org/10.1093/llc/...)!

Druk bezocht Malieveld vandaag (20.000+); samen in actie tegen de kortzichtige voorgenomen bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs van dit kabinet. Ook IISG is present! #WOinActie

CfP: The Urban-Rural System in Premodern Europe

We're looking for contributions to a session at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Leiden, 26-29 March 2025.

Deadline for submission: 14 April 2024.

You guys have been busy... The ‘Historical Atlas o/t Low Countries (1350–1800)’ paper was published only just before Christmas and is already the journal’s most downloaded paper of 2023! I wonder how you will be using the GIS dataset in 2024… Best wishes! doi.org/10.1163/2452...

We kijken terug op een geslaagd symposium van de Contactgroep Signum in Gent! Met dank aan Melina Reintjens en Leen Bervoets voor de organisatie en vier zeer interessante sprekers. Meer weten over wat Signum doet? Kijk op contactgroepsignum.eu en word lid voor slechts €10 p.j.!

Today, we organised a small gathering at the Teutonic House in Utrecht to celebrate the our new diplomatic edition and English transl. of the Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (aka Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik) with Routledge

www.routledge.com/9780367373283
www.routledge.com/9780367686789

Let's kick off for real now. After years of development, version 8 of the 'Historical Atlas of the Low Countries' has been published.

v7: 3.500 spatial units (Holland, Zeeland, Brabant, Hainaut, Artois, Liège)
v8: 16.000 units covering the entire Low Countries

Download: hdl.handle.net/10622/PGFYTM

My dissertation on the Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (or Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik) was published in 2021, but last month our edition and parallel English translation came out as well:

www.routledge.com/9780367373283 (ed/transl.)
www.routledge.com/9780367686789 (monograph)