Code
01D26713
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
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Social sciences
- Economic history
Keywords
anthropometry
height
Flanders
living standards
Project description
Average height is one of the best measures to study the social and economic conditions of a society and can be used to assess historical (in) equalities. We will examine the heights of prisoners during he last quarter of the 18th and the 19th century in Flanders.