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 and the arts
- History
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Social sciences
- Economic history
Keywords
anthropometry
height
Flanders
living standards
18th Century
19th Century
English
Dutch
Comparative
Quantitative
Belgium
History
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.