Project

The social renewal and aristocratization of urban elites in late medieval Flanders.

Code
3E002209
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • History
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
Keywords
elites social mobility Later Middle Ages
 
Project description

This project adresses the composition of urban elites of late medieval society and the changes which took place in this period in the definition and social renewal of those elites. By means of a research project which focuses on elite formation on large and medium-sized cities of the country of Flanders, new insights can be obtained for an important aspect of the social and political history of the premodern Low Countries.