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Project

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

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01D23117

Duration

01 October 2017 → 30 September 2021

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

René Vermeir

Fellow

Kevin Dekoster

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Early modern history
- Political history

Keywords

legal medicine County of Flanders early modern period professionalisation History

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.

English

Dutch

English

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