Jord Hanus

• Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp
  Website: www.ua.ac.be/jord.hanus.
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• Research Project
  Social Inequality and Mobility during the Long Sixteenth Century: 's-Hertogenbosch and its 'Meierij'
  Historical interest in the dynamics of social inequalities has been strangely underdeveloped. Especially as to the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, surprisingly little is known on patterns of social and economic mobility on the household level within its numerous cities. Armed with a number of exceptional sources, this project hopes to further our understanding of the inequalities and mobilities of a typical ancien régime town, as well as their processes of (re)production. Intergenerational transfers of resources will occupy a key place in the analysis and theories brought into play.
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• Selected publications
  • Tussen stad en eigen gewin. Stadsfinanciën, renteniers en kredietmarkten in 's-Hertogenbosch (begin zestiende eeuw). Studies Stadsgeschiedenis, 1 (Amsterdam, 2007).
  • 'Publiek krediet, privaat kapitaal. Bossche stadsfinanciën en stedelijke rentemarkten op de drempel van de nieuwe tijden (vroege zestiende eeuw)', in: Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek 24 (2007) 58-101.
  • 'Bossche renteniersters. Een zestiende-eeuwse rentemarkt als spiegel van vrouwelijk investeringsgedrag', in Historica 29 (2006) 3, 18-20.