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On 24 September 2026, dr. Maurits den Hollander organised a seminar titled ‘The City as Space. ‘Spatializingโ 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 โ๐๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐? ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ (๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ)โ by dr. Maurits den Hollander as part of the new volume โAmsterdam: Sovereignty and Legal Agency of a 17th-Century Commercial Cityโ, 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 โCity Networks of Europe and Beyondโ. 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 โt 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 Lรผbeck (c. 1470โ1570) examines how the magistrates of the Hanseatic towns Lรผbeck 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: โThe Value of Work: Petitions and Public Servants in Zwolle, c.1550โ1700.โ In this article we examine a diverse group of early modern urban public workers – from health and security to education…
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๐ฐ๐๐ด 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 โGoverning the Commons in the Rhine Deltaโ zoeken Merlijn van Hulst en ik een PhD-candidate ๐. Vier jaar lang ga je onderzoeken hoe steden in de…
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๐ Governance of water quality has a long history … Tilburg Law School has decided to award funding to the project โGoverning the Commons in the Rhine Deltaโ! 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…