Arie van Steensel
University of Groningen, History, Faculty Member
- Urban History, Nobility, Medieval History, Social History, Philosophy, Historical Sociology, and 55 moreHistory, Institutional history, Early Modern History, Rural History, England, The Low Countries, Comparative History, Philosophy of History, Economic History, Italy, Social Network Analysis (Medieval Studies), Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), Cultural Evolution, Renaissance Studies, The industrialization of agriculture: vertical coordination in the US food system., Historical Institutionalism, Collective Action, Solidarity, Household Economics, Medieval Kinship, Kinship (Anthropology), Marriage (History), Social and Economic History, Renaissance History, Medieval urban history, Medieval Studies, Late Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, Social Evolution, Collective Behavior, Self-Organization, Cooperation, Complex Systems, Medieval Low Countries, Craft Guilds in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Craft Guilds, Early Modern Urban History, Urban Studies, Medieval Institutions, Medieval Cities and Urbanism, Archivio Storico Italiano, Historical GIS, Civic Identity (Medieval Studies), Medieval Economic and Social History, Medieval Italy, History of Florence, Renaissance Florence, Medieval London, Medieval Prosopography, Osteoarchaeology, Paleopathology, Bioarchaeology, Paleodemography, and Human Geographyedit
- Arie van Steensel (Utrecht, 1982) is a historian specialising in the medieval and early modern history of Western Eur... moreArie van Steensel (Utrecht, 1982) is a historian specialising in the medieval and early modern history of Western Europe. He is particularly interested in the institutional, social and economic history of England, Italy and the Low Countries.edit
In: Diana Bullen Presciutti ed., Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp 47-67
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The medieval Low Countries are not usually associated with nobility and knighthood, but historical research in the past decades has proven that they should be. This series of essays gives a historiographical overview of the recent... more
The medieval Low Countries are not usually associated with nobility and knighthood, but historical research in the past decades has proven that they should be. This series of essays gives a historiographical overview of the recent literature on the nobility in the medieval Low Countries and links it with major international debates on the subject. This part, the third of the three sections into which this survey is organised, discusses the fast-growing and rich multi-disciplinary literature on noble identity and culture. The study of the material, ideological, behavioural and performative aspects of noble status currently predominantly focuses on the princely court but needs to be extended to the nobility as a whole and further integrated with political and socio-economic approaches.
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The medieval Low Countries are not usually associated with nobility and knighthood, but historical research in the past decades has proven that they should be. This series of essays gives a historiographical overview of the recent... more
The medieval Low Countries are not usually associated with nobility and knighthood, but historical research in the past decades has proven that they should be. This series of essays gives a historiographical overview of the recent literature on the nobility in the medieval Low Countries and links it with major international debates on the subject. The second of the three sections into which this survey is organised concerns the history of the nobility in the later Middle Ages, a period characterised by commercialisation, urbanisation and state formation. The intensity of these processes varied across the different principalities, but recent research suggests that, overall, the nobility showed great resilience to political and economic challenges and maintained its dominant position in late-medieval society.
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The medieval Low Countries are not usually associated with nobility and knighthood, but historical research in the past decades has proven that they should be. This series of essays gives a historiographical overview of the recent... more
The medieval Low Countries are not usually associated with nobility and knighthood, but historical research in the past decades has proven that they should be. This series of essays gives a historiographical overview of the recent literature on the nobility in the medieval Low Countries and links it with major international debates on the subject. This first of the three sections into which this survey is organised deals with the origins and evolution of the nobility, knighthood and ministeriality during the central Middle Ages. The early history of the nobility in the medieval Low Countries would benefit from trans-regional approaches in order to understand general patterns of development and regional peculiarities, and would offer an opportunity to confront different historiographical traditions by making comparisons with other European regions.
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The practices of marriage and inheritance and the representation of kinship among the medieval nobility are often studied separately, despite the argument that changes in conceptions of kinship accompanied the evolution of family... more
The practices of marriage and inheritance and the representation of kinship among the medieval nobility are often studied separately, despite the argument that changes in conceptions of kinship accompanied the evolution of family structures, property transmission systems, and political organization. This article combines the practical and ideological aspects of kinship by analyzing its meaning for the nobility in late-medieval Zeeland. It demonstrates that the variety in power, wealth, and status among the noble families resulted in different reproductive strategies according to their standing and objectives. Regional institutions and property structures had a great impact on aristocratic family strategies in Zeeland, but did not result in different family structures or conceptions of lineage compared to the surrounding principalities.
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The Low Countries became one of the most urbanised regions in late-medieval Europe. This article analyses the consequences of urbanisation and also state formation for the nobility in Zeeland. Noble lords remained the dominant political... more
The Low Countries became one of the most urbanised regions in late-medieval Europe. This article analyses the consequences of urbanisation and also state formation for the nobility in Zeeland. Noble lords remained the dominant political power, the result of their position in the States of Zeeland, but only a significant minority of the nobility was active in state service or urban government. The Zeeland towns offered the nobility a range of opportunities for service, and political, economic and familial networks developed across social boundaries. The nature of these ties depended on the status and objectives of those involved, making late-medieval society in Zeeland more complex than merely a division between nobility and burghers. Zeeland also illustrates the regional diversity within the Low Countries in the position of the nobility in urban society. It refutes the idea that they were transformed into a state nobility and shows that the chances of social mobility for the inhabitants of the small towns of Zeeland were slight.
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For more information: https://virtusjournal.org/issues/virtus-23-2016/
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Virtus is an independent and multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal with contributions on all areas of the history of the nobility.
For contents, visit: http://virtusjournal.org/issues/virtus-21-2014/
For contents, visit: http://virtusjournal.org/issues/virtus-21-2014/
