A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73421-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Companions to European History

As a place of production, knowledge, and creativity, Leiden attracted people from near and far in the premodern era (c. 1200-1800). The result was a diverse population in a rapidly growing city. The contributions to this volume, written by specialists, trace key moments and developments in Leiden’s history. The authors show how different groups of city dwellers experienced and shaped socio-economic and cultural events and processes. Through its thematic focus and engagement with current debates in urban history, this volume reveals how the inhabitants of a premodern European city produced and negotiated political, socio-economic, and spatial inequalities.

Contributors are: Ariadne Schmidt, Arie van Steensel, Chrystel Brandenburgh, Roos van Oosten, Edwin Orsel, Ed van der Vlist, Janna Coomans, Wout Saelens, Arie van Steensel, Maarten Prak, Jori Zijlmans, Henk Looijesteijn, Evelien Walhout, Jaco Zuijderduijn, Ariadne Schmidt, Manon van de Heijden, Elizabeth den Hartog, Christine Kooi, Alisa van de Haar, Johannes Müller, and Ronald Sluijter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

van Steensel, Arie

Schmidt, Ariadne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Arie van Steensel is a lecturer in medieval social and economic history at the University of Groningen. He specialises in the medieval and early modern history of western Europe and has a special interest in the urban history of Italy, England, and the Low Countries. Currently, he is the secretary of the European Association for Urban History.

Ariadne Schmidt is Professor of History of Urban Culture, in particular of Leiden, at Leiden University. She specialises in urban history, the history of work, and gender and family history. Her publications include Prosecuting Women: A Comparative Perspective on Crime and Gender before the Dutch Criminal Courts (Brill, 2020).