Papers by Rogier van Kooten
Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Apr 2, 2024
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Social history of medicine, Mar 14, 2024
Antwerp’s response to the outbreak of plague in the 1570s offers new insights into the effects of... more Antwerp’s response to the outbreak of plague in the 1570s offers new insights into the effects of epidemics on urban communities in relation to their religious, economic, and spatial fabric. Antwerp’s transition from a Catholic to Calvinist government in 1577, and back to Catholicism in 1585, allows us to study its reaction to and the effects of plague across religious boundaries within a short time span. Using GIS, we have compared various rich datasets concerning plague: the register of houses locked in quarantine; the health certificates issued by authorities; plague fatalities recorded in St. Jacob’s parish; a wide range of urban regulations; and information about the size of households, their composition, rents and real estate values in Antwerp. Combined analysis shows that Catholics and Protestants, whose houses were concentrated in different city districts and who had distinct professional and economic profiles, experienced plague quite differently, both physically and spiritually.
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Social History of Medicine, 2023
Antwerp’s response to the outbreak of plague in the 1570s offers new insights into the effects of... more Antwerp’s response to the outbreak of plague in the 1570s offers new insights into the effects of epidemics on urban communities in relation to their religious, economic, and spatial fabric. Antwerp’s transition from a Catholic to Calvinist government in 1577, and back to Catholicism in 1585, allows us to study its reaction to and the effects of plague across religious boundaries within a short time span. Using GIS, we have compared various rich datasets concerning plague: the register of houses locked in quarantine; the health certificates issued by authorities; plague fatalities recorded in St. Jacob’s parish; a wide range of urban regulations; and information about the size of households, their composition, rents and real estate values in Antwerp. Combined analysis shows that Catholics and Protestants, whose houses were concentrated in different city districts and who had distinct professional and economic profiles, experienced plague quite differently, both physically and spiritually.
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Contemporanea, Aug 7, 2023
De ontwikkeling van GIStorical Antwerp past binnen de bredere ontwikkeling van de digital history... more De ontwikkeling van GIStorical Antwerp past binnen de bredere ontwikkeling van de digital history. Eind 2021 introduceerde het Centrum voor Stadsgeschiedenis van de Universiteit Antwerpen de GIStorical Antwerp web viewer, het sluitstuk van een project dat bijna 10 jaar in beslag nam. De web viewer is een digitaal geografisch vergrootglas op vier eeuwen stad Antwerpen en haar bewoners. In dit artikel is een kritische reflectie en een blik op een veelbelovende toekomst.
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Stadsgeschiedenis, 2022
In recent years, the use of HGIS in historical research has grown enormously. More and more resea... more In recent years, the use of HGIS in historical research has grown enormously. More and more research infrastructure is being realized, more and more spatial data sets are becoming available and more and more historical map material is being digitized and georeferenced. Digital historical (city) laboratories are popping up like mushrooms. In this contribution we argue for a more systematic, more integral use of HGIS in historical research so that on a much larger scale, where applicable, one can benefit not only from the extra explanatory power of spatial perspective and research methods, but also from the stimulating effect that it provides for the entire research process. In this way we hope that the many investments will be capitalized even more than now in both scientific publications and public history, and that comparative research, benefiting from the local embedding of much HGIS reconstructions, will also be stimulated. For inspiration, we present three early modern and late medieval cases.
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Webviewer Leisure Retreats Antwerp, 2022
https://gistorical.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4c84c982c9fa4507896009c62191dd... more https://gistorical.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4c84c982c9fa4507896009c62191ddf9
The spread of ‘villa rustica’/ ‘pleasure’ grounds & houses related was to a wider European fashion to built country-house estates in the immediate vicinity of cities (sometimes even within the lesser populated neighbourhoods of a city). These leisure retreats can be typified as spacious and comfortable villa’s within greenery, something in between noble castles and patrician city palaces.
Studying these elite utopia’s is not without significance for broader
historiographical debates:
1. One gains a better insight in elite patterns of investment & material
culture. The spread of elite utopia’s can also be linked to long-term
patterns of residential suburbanisation, which was influential in the
eventual material built-up and structure of the urban fringe.
2. As will also become clear in our presentation, it can be linked to important debates about spatial inequalities and patterns of social segregation within the broader urban area.
3. It gives a better insight in the complexity of city-countryside relations,
rather then studying city and countryside as separate academic categories.
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Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020), Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), ed. by Bruno Blondé, et.al., Oct 1, 2020
Open Access: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.SEUH-EB.5.120448, Oct 1, 2020
Space... more Open Access: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.SEUH-EB.5.120448, Oct 1, 2020
Space allows us to move the scale of analysis from the city as a whole to different districts or households within the city which might have witnessed highly contrasting experiences of welfare and inequality in the wake of disruptive warfare. Moreover, these divergences might shed light on the dynamics driving the presumed ‘levelling’ characteristics of warfare. The observation of intra-urban divergences in welfare and inequality changes might reflect the pre-existing vulnerability of particular groups and districts to disruption following warfare. If the impact of warfare mainly affects households and districts with particular features, the levelling effect of warfare may be the result of these specific features. Space thus allows us to uncover drivers of inequality changes.
This contribution will use 1584 Antwerp as a case study to investigate how sudden demographic decline, predominantly mass emigration following a period of prolonged (civil) warfare and famine, affected social topography and intra-urban spatial inequality.
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Het Land van Aalst, 2020
In deze bijdrage plaatsen we de alomtegenwoordigheid van krediet in de context van de great litig... more In deze bijdrage plaatsen we de alomtegenwoordigheid van krediet in de context van de great litigation decline centraal. Voor de daling van de civiele processen worden verschillende verklaringen gesuggereerd zoals stijgende uitgaven voor advocaten, toenemende gerechtskosten, andere opvattingen over omgangsvormen en de afname van klein consumentenkrediet ten opzichte van grotere en formelere kredietvormen. Een ‘smoking gun’ kon echter niet worden aangewezen.10 In dit onderzoek wordt op basis van de gerechtelijke bronnen uit de archieven van de schepenbank van Aalst voor één doelgroep, de kleinhandelaars, een poging gedaan om een bijdrage te leveren aan deze discussie.
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Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 2017
This article covers the commercial circuits and networks in the interior regions of New Netherlan... more This article covers the commercial circuits and networks in the interior regions of New Netherland, where seventeenth century colonial settlers exchanged goods and services. Research in the Low Countries has shown that in rural areas, factors such as land tenure, distribution of landownership, company structure and ecology influenced which products and services were traded and who dominated the commercial circuits. Large farmers in some parts of Flanders for example, acted as powerful intermediaries (production pedlars) between the small local peasants and city merchants by exchanging the use of capital goods like ploughs and horses for labor.
However, the situation in the North American colony of New Netherland was very different. The findings showed that the combination of the ample availability of land and the small population size had led to a situation where almost three-quarters of rural households owned more than enough land, livestock and horses to be self-sufficient. Transactions in labor and capital therefore played only a minor role. Exchanging agricultural and non-agricultural imported goods with merchants in the urban circuit, by contrast, justified an intermediary role. Especially to serve rural households who lacked enough land or were active in non-agricultural professions. And, while contemporary sources speak of the fear for the dominance of the merchants in setting prices for agricultural goods, our findings show that rural players actually may have operated quiet autonomously and were able to set prices independently of market price volatility.
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de Halve Maen. Journal of the Holland Society of New York, 2017
Notwithstanding the commercial setting in New Netherland in which the rural settlements emerged, ... more Notwithstanding the commercial setting in New Netherland in which the rural settlements emerged, large-scale market orientated farms based on hired labor were scarce. On the contrary, family farms became the dominant feature of the colonial agricultural system in New Netherland. However, while some similarities with other peasant regions in the motherland existed, labor scarcity and the abundance of land shaped a particular local economy with a specific role for the 'production pedlar'.
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This research is about circuits and networks in the interior regions of New York, where
settlers ... more This research is about circuits and networks in the interior regions of New York, where
settlers exchanged goods and services. The type of products and the way those products were
exchanged, appears to have been strongly dependent on the socio-economic context. Research in
the Low Countries has shown that the emergence of a certain type of agricultural system is closely
associated with several factors, such as land tenure, distribution of landownership, company
structure and ecology.4 Within the agricultural system these factors also influence commercial
relations between households, the way surpluses are brought to markets and which products and
services are traded.5 However, the seventeenth century situation in the Low Countries was very
different from the situation in the North American colony of New Netherland.
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Een onderzoek naar krachtlijnen in de commerciële circuits van een koloniaal agro-systeem onder d... more Een onderzoek naar krachtlijnen in de commerciële circuits van een koloniaal agro-systeem onder de rook van New York rond 1675.
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Books by Rogier van Kooten
Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, 2023
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Chair), Dave De Ruysscher (Editor), Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. C... more Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Chair), Dave De Ruysscher (Editor), Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Editor), Florian Daemen (Editor), K. Douma (Editor), K.A.H.W. Leenders (Editor), L. Toorians (Editor), Mark Vermeer (Editor) and Rogier van Kooten (Editor).
Op 8 december 2023 is deel 40 van het "Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2022)" verschenen. Het jaarboek is een uitgave van Zuidelijk Historisch Con tact in samenwerking met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant.
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Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, 2022
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Chair), Dave De ruysscher (Editor), Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. C... more Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Chair), Dave De ruysscher (Editor), Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Editor), Florian Daemen (Editor), K. Douma (Editor), K.A.H.W. Leenders (Editor), L. Toorians (Editor), Mark Vermeer (Editor), Rogier van Kooten (Editor).
Op 16 december 2022 is deel 39 van het "Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2022)" verschenen. Het jaarboek 2022 is een speciale uitgave in samenwerking met Colloquium De Brabantse Stad. Het heeft als thema ‘Stad en territorium. De perceptie en representatie van stad en vorstendom in Brabant’.
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Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, 2021
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Chair), Dave De ruysscher (editor), Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. C... more Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld (Chair), Dave De ruysscher (editor), Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Editor), Florian Daemen (Editor), K. Douma (Editor), K.A.H.W. Leenders (Editor), L. Toorians (Editor), Mark Vermeer (Editor), Rogier van Kooten (Editor),
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
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Antwerpen 1584. Oorlog en ongelijkheid in de stedelijke ruimte, 2021
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Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, 2020
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Editor), Florian Daemen (Edi... more Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Editor), Florian Daemen (Editor), K. Douma (Editor), K.A.H.W. Leenders (Editor), L. Toorians (Editor), Mark Vermeer (Editor), Rogier van Kooten (Editor).
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
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Zuidelijk Historisch Contact, 2019
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.L. van Blom (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Edit... more Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld, Erik-Jan Broers (Editor), C.L. van Blom (Editor), C.M.A. Caspers (Editor), Florian Daemen (Editor), K. Douma (Editor), K.A.H.W. Leenders (Editor), K.P.C. de Leeuw (Editor), J.G.M.M. Rosendaal (Editor), L. Toorians (Editor), Mark Vermeer (Editor), Rogier van Kooten (Editor).
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
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Mapping the Market: Credit transactions in the Antwerp inner city and surroundings 1833-1837, 2023
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Antwerp 1584: War and inequality in Urban Space, 2021
https://gistorical.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=fccbba0f978d4e4f8489c3a05fed43... more https://gistorical.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=fccbba0f978d4e4f8489c3a05fed435f
The Fall of Antwerp (1585) marked a turning point in the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). Growing up through international trade and textile processing, this trading metropolis served as the economic and political capital of the rebellious provinces against the Habsburg king Philip II. Amsterdam would never have acquired its seventeenth-century grandeur if Antwerp had remained in the hands of the insurgents. But it turned out differently. A Spanish army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, managed to bring the city to its knees in August 1585, resulting in a massive emigration. Inhabitants, knowledge and capital left for the Northern Netherlands.
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The spread of ‘villa rustica’/ ‘pleasure’ grounds & houses related was to a wider European fashion to built country-house estates in the immediate vicinity of cities (sometimes even within the lesser populated neighbourhoods of a city). These leisure retreats can be typified as spacious and comfortable villa’s within greenery, something in between noble castles and patrician city palaces.
Studying these elite utopia’s is not without significance for broader
historiographical debates:
1. One gains a better insight in elite patterns of investment & material
culture. The spread of elite utopia’s can also be linked to long-term
patterns of residential suburbanisation, which was influential in the
eventual material built-up and structure of the urban fringe.
2. As will also become clear in our presentation, it can be linked to important debates about spatial inequalities and patterns of social segregation within the broader urban area.
3. It gives a better insight in the complexity of city-countryside relations,
rather then studying city and countryside as separate academic categories.
Space allows us to move the scale of analysis from the city as a whole to different districts or households within the city which might have witnessed highly contrasting experiences of welfare and inequality in the wake of disruptive warfare. Moreover, these divergences might shed light on the dynamics driving the presumed ‘levelling’ characteristics of warfare. The observation of intra-urban divergences in welfare and inequality changes might reflect the pre-existing vulnerability of particular groups and districts to disruption following warfare. If the impact of warfare mainly affects households and districts with particular features, the levelling effect of warfare may be the result of these specific features. Space thus allows us to uncover drivers of inequality changes.
This contribution will use 1584 Antwerp as a case study to investigate how sudden demographic decline, predominantly mass emigration following a period of prolonged (civil) warfare and famine, affected social topography and intra-urban spatial inequality.
However, the situation in the North American colony of New Netherland was very different. The findings showed that the combination of the ample availability of land and the small population size had led to a situation where almost three-quarters of rural households owned more than enough land, livestock and horses to be self-sufficient. Transactions in labor and capital therefore played only a minor role. Exchanging agricultural and non-agricultural imported goods with merchants in the urban circuit, by contrast, justified an intermediary role. Especially to serve rural households who lacked enough land or were active in non-agricultural professions. And, while contemporary sources speak of the fear for the dominance of the merchants in setting prices for agricultural goods, our findings show that rural players actually may have operated quiet autonomously and were able to set prices independently of market price volatility.
settlers exchanged goods and services. The type of products and the way those products were
exchanged, appears to have been strongly dependent on the socio-economic context. Research in
the Low Countries has shown that the emergence of a certain type of agricultural system is closely
associated with several factors, such as land tenure, distribution of landownership, company
structure and ecology.4 Within the agricultural system these factors also influence commercial
relations between households, the way surpluses are brought to markets and which products and
services are traded.5 However, the seventeenth century situation in the Low Countries was very
different from the situation in the North American colony of New Netherland.
Books by Rogier van Kooten
Op 8 december 2023 is deel 40 van het "Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2022)" verschenen. Het jaarboek is een uitgave van Zuidelijk Historisch Con tact in samenwerking met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant.
Op 16 december 2022 is deel 39 van het "Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2022)" verschenen. Het jaarboek 2022 is een speciale uitgave in samenwerking met Colloquium De Brabantse Stad. Het heeft als thema ‘Stad en territorium. De perceptie en representatie van stad en vorstendom in Brabant’.
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
How war, religious intolerance and famine reshuffled social and spatial inequalities in income and wealth.
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
Research projects by Rogier van Kooten
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/086557eafb504424b851d41ed93f9c93
Webviewer Antwerp and surroundings:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/b228e49ae6f54ccfae67d27ba465b8c0
The financing of business in the nineteenth century did not necessarily require bank credit. Loans also flowed through alternative channels from lenders to borrowers. This pilot project investigates for Antwerp the size of the market for bank credit and non-bank credit throughout the 19th century. We place these credit transactions in the city's geography to examine how supply and demand found each other.
The Fall of Antwerp (1585) marked a turning point in the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). Growing up through international trade and textile processing, this trading metropolis served as the economic and political capital of the rebellious provinces against the Habsburg king Philip II. Amsterdam would never have acquired its seventeenth-century grandeur if Antwerp had remained in the hands of the insurgents. But it turned out differently. A Spanish army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, managed to bring the city to its knees in August 1585, resulting in a massive emigration. Inhabitants, knowledge and capital left for the Northern Netherlands.
The spread of ‘villa rustica’/ ‘pleasure’ grounds & houses related was to a wider European fashion to built country-house estates in the immediate vicinity of cities (sometimes even within the lesser populated neighbourhoods of a city). These leisure retreats can be typified as spacious and comfortable villa’s within greenery, something in between noble castles and patrician city palaces.
Studying these elite utopia’s is not without significance for broader
historiographical debates:
1. One gains a better insight in elite patterns of investment & material
culture. The spread of elite utopia’s can also be linked to long-term
patterns of residential suburbanisation, which was influential in the
eventual material built-up and structure of the urban fringe.
2. As will also become clear in our presentation, it can be linked to important debates about spatial inequalities and patterns of social segregation within the broader urban area.
3. It gives a better insight in the complexity of city-countryside relations,
rather then studying city and countryside as separate academic categories.
Space allows us to move the scale of analysis from the city as a whole to different districts or households within the city which might have witnessed highly contrasting experiences of welfare and inequality in the wake of disruptive warfare. Moreover, these divergences might shed light on the dynamics driving the presumed ‘levelling’ characteristics of warfare. The observation of intra-urban divergences in welfare and inequality changes might reflect the pre-existing vulnerability of particular groups and districts to disruption following warfare. If the impact of warfare mainly affects households and districts with particular features, the levelling effect of warfare may be the result of these specific features. Space thus allows us to uncover drivers of inequality changes.
This contribution will use 1584 Antwerp as a case study to investigate how sudden demographic decline, predominantly mass emigration following a period of prolonged (civil) warfare and famine, affected social topography and intra-urban spatial inequality.
However, the situation in the North American colony of New Netherland was very different. The findings showed that the combination of the ample availability of land and the small population size had led to a situation where almost three-quarters of rural households owned more than enough land, livestock and horses to be self-sufficient. Transactions in labor and capital therefore played only a minor role. Exchanging agricultural and non-agricultural imported goods with merchants in the urban circuit, by contrast, justified an intermediary role. Especially to serve rural households who lacked enough land or were active in non-agricultural professions. And, while contemporary sources speak of the fear for the dominance of the merchants in setting prices for agricultural goods, our findings show that rural players actually may have operated quiet autonomously and were able to set prices independently of market price volatility.
settlers exchanged goods and services. The type of products and the way those products were
exchanged, appears to have been strongly dependent on the socio-economic context. Research in
the Low Countries has shown that the emergence of a certain type of agricultural system is closely
associated with several factors, such as land tenure, distribution of landownership, company
structure and ecology.4 Within the agricultural system these factors also influence commercial
relations between households, the way surpluses are brought to markets and which products and
services are traded.5 However, the seventeenth century situation in the Low Countries was very
different from the situation in the North American colony of New Netherland.
Op 8 december 2023 is deel 40 van het "Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2022)" verschenen. Het jaarboek is een uitgave van Zuidelijk Historisch Con tact in samenwerking met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant.
Op 16 december 2022 is deel 39 van het "Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2022)" verschenen. Het jaarboek 2022 is een speciale uitgave in samenwerking met Colloquium De Brabantse Stad. Het heeft als thema ‘Stad en territorium. De perceptie en representatie van stad en vorstendom in Brabant’.
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
How war, religious intolerance and famine reshuffled social and spatial inequalities in income and wealth.
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
ZHC geeft samen met Erfgoed Brabant en de Historische Vereniging Brabant het Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (NHJ) uit. Het NHJ is hét platform voor wetenschappelijke publicaties over de geschiedenis van Brabant. Daarbij denken we in het bijzonder aan Noord-Brabant, maar daarnaast ook aan gebieden daarbuiten die ooit tot het hertogdom Brabant behoorden. Het jaarboek bevat artikelen over de Brabantse geschiedenis met een brede diversiteit aan tijdvakken en domeinen zoals economische geschiedenis, sociale geschiedenis, kerkgeschiedenis en militaire geschiedenis. Elk jaar is er verder een kroniek met besprekingen van recent verschenen boeken.
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Webviewer Antwerp and surroundings:
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The financing of business in the nineteenth century did not necessarily require bank credit. Loans also flowed through alternative channels from lenders to borrowers. This pilot project investigates for Antwerp the size of the market for bank credit and non-bank credit throughout the 19th century. We place these credit transactions in the city's geography to examine how supply and demand found each other.
The Fall of Antwerp (1585) marked a turning point in the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). Growing up through international trade and textile processing, this trading metropolis served as the economic and political capital of the rebellious provinces against the Habsburg king Philip II. Amsterdam would never have acquired its seventeenth-century grandeur if Antwerp had remained in the hands of the insurgents. But it turned out differently. A Spanish army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, managed to bring the city to its knees in August 1585, resulting in a massive emigration. Inhabitants, knowledge and capital left for the Northern Netherlands.
In close cooperation with Regionaal landschap de Voorkempen, Visual Dimension and the City of Antwerp, embedded within the RFC Interreg project, the Centre for Urban History (UA) aims to build a VR application 'VirtuaFort'. This application includes Fort Lillo and its immediate surroundings. Hereby, a historically correct 3D-reconstruction of the fort in the 17th century is brought to life by means of immersive technology.
In this project, funded by the Province of Antwerp, and framed in the scientific collaboration between the Province and the University of Antwerp, we test the potential of Time Machine technologies on the Herentals-Kleine Nete region, more specifically adressing the question of the historical land-use and water management of the river wetlands along the river Kleine Nete.
In a time of rapid urbanization solid long-term perspectives on the many environmental, social, economic or political challenges of urbanity are urgently needed. Uniting urban history, sociology, environmental studies and digital humanities, GIStorical Antwerp II turns the historical city into a digital lab which provides an answer to this need. For seven snapshots between 1584 and 1984 it offers dynamic social maps including every household in the entire city of Antwerp. Construction combines innovative ways of spatial methodologies as Linear Referencing. The result is a GIS-environment which not only allows a micro-level view of 400 years of urban development, but more importantly allows an immediate spatial and social contextualization of a sheer unlimited number of other datasets, both those realized through 30 years of research on Antwerp and the mass of structured and unstructured digital 'big data'. For both the applicants and the international research community a completely new type of longitudinal research on urban inequalities – from income over housing quality to pollution – becomes feasible.
Are socio-spatial patterns in static urban environments really as rigid and invariable over time as previously believed? Check out our web viewer to explore our data.