Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 134, Issue 1, 2021

Abstract Merciful Augusta. Margaret of Brabant as counselor, mediator and saint in Italy (1310-1311) This article shows that Margaret of Brabant (1276-1311), Queen of the Romans, played an influential diplomatic and moral role on the international stage and had great influence on her husband, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII, in the perception of her contemporaries, who glorified the love between the two. A study Read More

Abstract Fun without worries. Cities promoting fairs in the Austrian Netherlands. Focusing as a case study on the fairs of Kortrijk, a middle-sized city in the county of Flanders, this contribution aims to further our knowledge of an increasing respectability of fairs in the eighteenth century. The city magistrate regulated fairs, but also increasingly had an active role in their organization. Kortrijk had a variety of fairs in the early moder Read More

Abstract Working on Water. the Hygienist Movement in Utrecht (1866-1900) This article approaches the hygienist movement as a social health movement, a complex societal campaign aiming to alter norms and arrangements regarding hygiene and thereby improve public health. This perspective is applied to a very specific topic: drinking water arrangements in the city of Utrecht (1866-1900). Archival study indicates th Read More

Abstract From Humanism to Nazism. The case of Frederik Jzn. Muller (1883-1944) Frederik Jzn. Muller (1883—1944) was professor of Latin at Leiden University from 1921 to 1944 and one of the few prominent Dutch classicists who collaborated with the German occupiers during the Second World War. The driving force behind Muller’s collaboration was not political opportunism or anti-Semitic ideology, but the conviction that only in Read More

Abstract Careers in context. Figuring out thirty years of Flemish PhD’s in history The number of history PhD’s in Flanders has significantly increased in the last three decades. Yet little is known about the impact of this evolution on the degree itself. Many reports have argued that the decreasing chances of pursuing an academic career lead ever more young researchers towards employment that has little to do with the university Read More

Abstract Challenges for contemporary historical culture. An introduction The concept of historical culture refers to the ways in which society deals with the past in the broadest sense. The concept enables an integrated study of the different, and sometimes conflicting practices that give meaning to the past. The aim of this thematic section is twofold: it aims to reflect on the value of the concept historical culture for analy Read More