Project

From Dissecting Table to Courtroom. The Professionalisation of Medico-Legal Expertise in the Early Modern County of Flanders (16th-18th Centuries)

Code
01D23117
Duration
01 October 2017 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Early modern history
    • Political history
Keywords
legal medicine County of Flanders early modern period professionalisation
 
Project description

This research proposal aims to analyse the professionalisation of medico-legal expertise in the early modern County of Flanders. This objective will primarily be achieved by an analysis of the form and content of autopsy reports produced by medical experts who offered their services to law courts.
Much attention will be paid to comparisons between courts on different institutional levels.