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As conclusion of her research fellowship at the Zeeland Archives (Zeeuws Archief), Valérie Slijkerman gave a public lecture for the Friends of the Zeeland Archives on Friday 2 October 2026. She presented the results of the research project that she completed during the past year, drawing on the archives and collections of the Zeeland Archives,…
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Brill has just published the book Debt or Sin? The Moral Roots of European Legal and Economic Thought, edited by Wim Decock and Wouter Druwé. The volume includes a contribution by dr. Maurits den Hollander titled ‘Debt and Insolvency in Early Modern Amsterdam: Religious Influences on the Desolate Boedelskamer?’. In the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, a…
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On 24 September 2026, dr. Maurits den Hollander organised a seminar titled ‘The City as Space. ‘Spatializing’ History and Future of Urban Law and Governance?’ at Tilburg Law School. Dr. Marco in ‘t Veld and prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher were also among the speakers. Together with specialists of law and public governance, we reflected…
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Brill has just published “𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞? 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 (𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲)” by dr. Maurits den Hollander as part of the new volume ‘Amsterdam: Sovereignty and Legal Agency of a 17th-Century Commercial City’, edited by Dave De ruysscher and Janne E. Nijman. The contribution examines insolvency practices in seventeenth-century Amsterdam as…
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From 2-5 September 2026, our team joined the 17th Conference of the European Association for Urban History. This edition was organised in the beautiful city of Barcelona, with as main theme “City Networks of Europe and Beyond”. This topic closely connects to the idea of ‘Multilevel Governance in Premodern Cities of Commerce’ that we develop…
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Thursday 11 June 2026, Marco in ‘t Veld and Wenneke Bos held a lecture for the Historische Vereniging Schoonhoven about medieval toll- and staple rights. In this presentation they argued that the medieval staple rights of Dordrecht (established in 1299) were a next step on the escalation latter of toll enforcement. As toll collectors were…
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In June 2026, Brepols published a monograph by dr. Christian Manger as part of the series Studies in European Urban History. Councils, Conflicts, Correspondence. Urban Diplomacy in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck (c. 1470–1570) examines how the magistrates of the Hanseatic towns Lübeck and Reval managed conflicts which exceeded the formal limits of their own jurisdiction…
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On Sunday 10 May 2026, dr. Maurits den Hollander was awarded the Human Solvency Prize 2024-2026 for his book Court, Credit, and Capital. Amsterdam’s Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge University Press, 2025) [link]. The biennial prize was granted by the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini, during the opening of…
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On Friday 27 March 2026, dr. Maurits den Hollander organised a workshop titled ‘Urban Professionals and Commerce in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries’. Besides the organiser, five speakers presented their draft papers that will be developed into articles for a special issue of the journal TSEG. Ester Zoomer (Tilburg University) and prof. dr.…
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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…