ENVIRHUS - Team
Tim Soens - coordinator/supervisor
Tim Soens is an expert in Landscape and Environmental history, with specific emphasis on - climate history (Little Ice Age to Anthropocene) - coastal and riverine landscapes - wetland management - urban waters - traditional agriculture - natural disasters, risks and their management - urban food provisioning and the role of urban agriculture and urban commons in urban food supplies - evolution of urban and rural landscapes (using historical GIS) - long-term evolutions of inequalities.
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Reinoud Vermoesen
Reinoud Vermoesen is an expert on rural consumption and the commercialisation of agriculture in the premodern Southern Netherlands, with an additional specialisation in (rural) second-hand markets, and the economy of the polder landscapes of the region Waasland. Furthermore, he also does research on the rural history of colonial New Netherland.
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Postdoctoral researchers & projects
Stef Espeel
- Did plague cause grain crises? Unravelling the mechanisms linking epidemics and food supplies in the later Middle Ages.
Wout Saelens
- A great silence? the everyday politics of smoke in the age of coal: Ghent (1780-1880).
Kathleen Pribyl
- Food from Somewhere? Urban Households, Access to Land and Alternative Food Entitlements in the Late Medieval City.
Doctoral researchers & projects
Lora Pannekoucke
- Epidemics and Inequalities in Belgium from the Plague to COVID-19. What can we learn about societal resilience? (website: EPIBEL)
Cécile Bruyet
- Food from Somewhere? Urban Households, Access to Land and Alternative Food Entitlements in the Late Medieval City.
Lena Walschap
- Seas of Risk and Resilience: peasant fishing on the late medieval English coasts as a coping strategy against climate-induced hazards.
Arnoud Jensen
- Peasants into Stewards. Leasehold and Environmental Stewardship in the Late Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1400.
Jean-Baptiste Ortlieb
- Environmental history of the summits of the southern Vosges (13th - 18th century).
Sam Geens
- A golden age for labour? Economic inequality and labour income after the Black Death: Flanders and Tuscany compared (1350-1500).
Ric Janssens
- Questioning water modernity. A GIS-approach to the privatization and resilience of common drinking water systems in 16th- and 19thcentury cities, test-case: Antwerp.
Past research projects
Wout Vande Sompele
- Tussen landbouw en de markt: de rurale middenstand in Doel, 1614-1900. (2021)
Stef Espeel
- Prices and crises: The grain economy in fourteenth-century Flanders. (2021)
Rogier van Kooten
- Antwerpen 1584 : oorlog en ongelijkheid in de stedelijke ruimte. (2021)
Frank Gelaude
- De vroege hydrografie van de stad Gent, een geomorfologisch en historisch onderzoek van menselijke ingrepen in de waterhuishouding van het middeleeuwse Gent. (2018)
Jim van der Meulen
- Woven into the urban fabric : rural cloth manufacture and economic development in the Flemish West-Quarter (1300-1600). (2017)
Pieter De Graef
- Urbs in Rure? Urban manure and fertiliser improvementin 18th-century Flemish farming. (2016)
Filip Van Roosbroeck
- To cure is to kill? Cattle plague, state intervention and veterinary knowledge in the Austrian Netherlands, 1769-1785. (2016)
Iason Jongepier
- Exploratie van de mogelijkheden van digitale historische kaarten voor landschapsgeschiedenis: crowdsourcing project rond de historische kaartencollectie van de familie Arenberg. (2022)
- Drowned but not deserted : interactions between social and ecological processes of estuarine landscapes after flooding : test-case : the Waasland polders on the left-bank of the river Scheldt (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). (2015)
Eline Van Onacker
- Subordinatie of solidariteit? Armenzorg als instrument van dorpselites in de 16de-eeuwse Zuidelijke Nederlanden. (2018)
- Leaders of the pack? Village elites and social structures in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Campine area. (2014)
Maïka De Keyzer
- The common denominator. The survival of the commons in the late medieval Campine area. (2014)
Kristof Dombrecht
- Plattelandsgemeenschappen, lokale elites en ongelijkheid in het Vlaamse kustgebied (14de-16de eeuw): case-study: Dudzele ambacht. (2014)