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We are excited to announce that a new article by dr. Christian Manger and dr. Maurits den Hollander has just appeared in firstview: “The Value of Work: Petitions and Public Servants in Zwolle, c.1550–1700.” In this article we examine a diverse group of early modern urban public workers – from health and security to education…
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🏰🌊🌴 In je eerste werkweek direct naar Barcelona?! Bij het Department of Public Law & Governance at Tilburg University hebben we een vacature waarbij dat kan! Voor ons project ‘Governing the Commons in the Rhine Delta’ zoeken Merlijn van Hulst en ik een PhD-candidate 🎓. Vier jaar lang ga je onderzoeken hoe steden in de…
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🌊 Governance of water quality has a long history … Tilburg Law School has decided to award funding to the project ‘Governing the Commons in the Rhine Delta’! Together with Merlijn van Hulst, Marco in ‘t Veld will be leading this project on how early modern cities in the Rhine Delta governed clean water as…
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On Tuesday 28 October 2025, dr. Maurits den Hollander was invited for a lecture by Forum Romanum, the legal historical society co-hosted by the VU and UvA universities in Amsterdam. He talked about his recently published book Court, Credit, and Capital (CUP 2025), discussing how important innovations in seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s insolvency legislation could contribute to…
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On 16 October 2025, Cambridge University Press published a monograph by dr. Maurits den Hollander. 📘 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵, 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭: 𝘈𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘨𝘦 explores how important innovations in insolvency legislation contributed to seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s economic success. Moving beyond the traditional moral condemnation of insolvents, the city’s specialized insolvency court introduced…
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In the latest issue of BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, an article by dr. Christian Manger and dr. Maurits den Hollander titled ‘Advisers or Decision-Makers? The Agency of Dutch Urban Administrative Officials, c. 1500-1700’ appeared. It analyses the unique position of secretaries and pensionaries in thegovernments of cities in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century NorthernNetherlands.…
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This interview was originally published on the website of Tilburg Law School: [link]. Legal historian Marco In ’t Veld places a river at the center of his research. And wine. But what does the EU have to do with the Rhine, and the trade carried on it between the 14th and 17th centuries? In ’t…
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🏛️ Palace of Commerce reveals the hidden world behind the marble walls of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century city hall. Far from quiet grandeur, the palace once bustled with paperwork, legal specialists, and urban officials like Jacob de Vogelaer — a wealthy urban secretary managing the flow of commerce and justice, one of 30,000 sheets at a time!…
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🌐 As part of our research project on multilevel governance in medieval and early modern commercial cities, we are expanding our website with a series of short vignettes on the legal histories of key trading hubs. In each of these introductions we explore the organisation of urban governance in relation to the economy of the…
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🏛️ 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆 reveals the hidden world behind the marble floors of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century city hall. Amsterdam’s ambitions related to hard commercial interests, but also to the weak in society. Including orphans! 📖 Watch the trailer, and join Bob Wessels and me to discover a fascinating aspect of governance in a global city. 🔗…