Frederik Buylaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1515501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederik Buylaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederik |
| FAMILY NAME | Buylaert |
| SIGNATURE | BUYLAERT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3339-6438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Games, Gambling, and Social Order in Netherlandish Villages, C. 1250–1600
Crosschecking iconographic and textual evidence, this article explores how games were regulated in the countryside of Flanders, Zeeland, and Holland between c. 1250 and c. 1600. A corpus of village regulations and pardon letters that inform us on gambling, children’s games, archery contests, and so on, is used to engage with established scholarship on these topics, which is exclusively focused on towns. Apart from crosschecking urban and rural re…
Seigneurial institutions and Holland's seventeenth‐century miracle
This article revisits the claim that Holland owed much of its seventeenth‐century efflorescence to the absence of feudal constraints on its economy. Because Holland was relatively late to develop in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it supposedly missed the European Feudal Revolution, thus opening space for an exceptional long‐run development. Whilst this view is correct for serfdom and landlordship, it is not for seigneurial lordship, another …
Patronage and Social Change in Early Netherlandish Painting (ca. 1400–1550)
This contribution intervenes in debates on the social basis of early Netherlandish painting (ca. 1400–1550). While scholars agree that patronage was an important factor in explaining the growing popularity of painting, it is unclear which specific groups were responsible for artistic investment. Drawing on a corpus of around five hundred panel paintings, this article constitutes a quantitative and qualitative intervention in this debate. Apart fr…
Bad Lordship and Peasant Resistance in the Flemish Seigneurie of Eksaarde (c. 1439 to 1482)
This article is concerned with a series of clashes between the successive lords of Eksaarde, a village in Flanders, and their peasants. More so than in other parts of Europe, seigneurial institutions were dominated by peasants rather than lords, but the evidence from Eksaarde reveals that lords tried to protect their rights and that the heavy-handed rule of Duke Charles the Bold (1467–1477) over the Low Countries created opportunities for aggress…
Lordship in the Later Middle Ages
Over the last few years, a number of articles have featured in Past and Present on the subject of late medieval lordship. Three were accepted within a four-month period between July and October 2023 (Christian D. Liddy, ‘The Making of Towns, the Making of Polities’; Tristan W. Sharp, ‘Seigneurial Predation in the Late Medieval Feud’; Frederik Buylaert, Thijs Lambrecht, Klaas Van Gelder, and Kaat Cappelle, ‘The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lor…
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c. 1250–1570
The recent debate between Chris Wickham and Shami Ghosh exposes different interpretations of the political economy of Europe, with Wickham arguing for the persistence of the feudal economy up to about 1700, and Ghosh imagining a distinct phase in which economic development was not yet capitalist but was no longer decisively shaped by the demands of lords. This article contributes to the discussion with the story of Flanders, where two contrasting…
Pre-1500
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City and State in the Medieval Low Countries
From periphery to centre and back again
This article explores the social history of the political elites of Mechelen, a town that evolved from a seigneurial enclave within the duchy of Brabant to the de facto capital of the Burgundian–Habsburg Low Countries between the 1470s and 1530. Proceeding from a quantitative analysis of lists of aldermen, fiscal registers and epitaphs, the article argues that the short-lived functioning of Mechelen as a capital city had great impact on its rulin…
Returning urban political elites to the research agenda
This article provides a comparative analysis of four large towns in the Southern Low Countries between c . 1350 and c . 1550. Combining the data on Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp – each of which is discussed in greater detail in the articles in this special section – with recent research on Bruges, the authors argue against the historiographical trend in which the political history of late medieval towns is supposedly dominated by a trend towards olig…
Record-Keeping and Status Performance in the Early Modern Low Countries
From the tenth and eleventh centuries onwards, a network of cities flowered in the Low Countries that derived their existence largely from trade and industry. The practical exigencies that came with the large-scale production and commercialization of goods made sure that in this part of Western Europe the traditional monopoly of the clergy on literacy was broken early on by the precocious rise of a class of merchants and craftsmen who committed t…
La Loge des Bourgeois de Bruges. Les stratégies de distinction d'une élite commerçante cosmopolite
À Bruges, métropole commerciale de la mer du Nord au bas Moyen Âge, se trouvait un bâtiment très particulier: la Poortersloge ou Loge des Bourgeois , une construction gothique en pierre naturelle qui existe encore sous une forme très restaurée. La construction de cet édifice fut initiée vers l'an 1400 avec pour fonction première de servir d'espace aux activités socio-culturelles de l'élite commerçante urbaine. Le bâtiment était aussi un endroit o…
The transformation of rural elites in late medieval Flanders
Proceeding from an in-depth analysis of the Liberty of Bruges, an important rural district in the late medieval Low Countries, this contribution frames rural elite formation by means of two debates which are seldom used in combination, namely, the debates on state building and on the commercialisation of rural society. We challenge the thesis, inspired by modernisation theory, that socio-economic transformation engendered political change in pre-…
City Portrait, Civic Body, and Commercial Printing in Sixteenth-Century Ghent
This article discusses a woodcut series with an elaborate iconographic representation of the Flemish city of Ghent, printed in 1524 by Pieter de Keysere. The three-sheet composition consists of a city view, an image of the allegorical Maiden of Ghent, and an extensive heraldic program with the coat of arms of prominent Ghent families and of the Ghent craft guilds. The print series’ production and consumption are unraveled and framed within the wi…
Lordship, Urbanization and Social Change in Late Medieval Flanders
In the late 1460s, Leo von Rözmital, a member of the high nobility of Bohemia, embarked on a ‘grand tour’ of Western Europe. He travelled from court to court through Germany, the Low Countries, England, France and the Iberian and Italian peninsula. Two members of his retinue, the Czech squire Václav Schaseck and Gabriel Tetzel from Nurnberg, kept an account of their impressions. When Von Rözmital and his companions visited the Low Countries in 14…
Een repliek op Hans Cools, 'Boekbespreking
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Gestion de vengeances et conflits privés au sein de l'élite gantoise à la fin du Moyen Âge
Cette contribution traite essentiellement de la manière dont les élites gantoises de la fin du Moyen Âge géraient ses conflits. Vers 1300, la classe patricienne au pouvoir fut déchirée par plusieurs violents conflits entre familles. Ces conflits aggravaient la rivalité entre les familles patriciennes gantoises et les corps de métier frustrés du pouvoir. Ils s'entrelaçaient avec les tensions politiques plus larges en Flandre. Vers la fin du xiv e …
The Late Medieval "Crisis of the Nobility" Reconsidered
Recent historiography on the economic position of the later medieval nobility has seen a marked shift where the post-war paradigm of a "crisis of the nobility" is replaced with a tendency to stress the endurance of noblemen vis-a-vis the economic, political and social transformations of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. Yet, the question of how noble elites adapted to the economic changes of the later Middle Ages remains a poignant one. Based…
The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders
Journal Article The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders Get access Jonas Braekevelt, Jonas Braekevelt Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Frederik Buylaert, Frederik Buylaert Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan Dumolyn, Jan Dumolyn Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Sumptuary legislation, material culture and the semiotics of ‘ vivre noblement ’ in the county of Flanders (14th–16th centuries)
The question addressed in this contribution is a simple one: how was nobility structured in a society in which this particular form of social identity was not yet regulated by the princely state? H
Edelen in de Vlaamse stedelijke samenleving. Een kwantitatieve benadering van de elite van het laatmiddeleeuwse en vroegmoderne Brugge
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Court as a Stage
Sumptuary legislation, material culture and the semiotics of ‘ vivre noblement ’ in the county of Flanders (14th–16th centuries)
The question addressed in this contribution is a simple one: how was nobility structured in a society in which this particular form of social identity was not yet regulated by the princely state? H
City Portrait, Civic Body, and Commercial Printing in Sixteenth-Century Ghent
This article discusses a woodcut series with an elaborate iconographic representation of the Flemish city of Ghent, printed in 1524 by Pieter de Keysere. The three-sheet composition consists of a city view, an image of the allegorical Maiden of Ghent, and an extensive heraldic program with the coat of arms of prominent Ghent families and of the Ghent craft guilds. The print series’ production and consumption are unraveled and framed within the wi…
The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders
Journal Article The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders Get access Jonas Braekevelt, Jonas Braekevelt Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Frederik Buylaert, Frederik Buylaert Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan Dumolyn, Jan Dumolyn Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Returning urban political elites to the research agenda
This article provides a comparative analysis of four large towns in the Southern Low Countries between c . 1350 and c . 1550. Combining the data on Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp – each of which is discussed in greater detail in the articles in this special section – with recent research on Bruges, the authors argue against the historiographical trend in which the political history of late medieval towns is supposedly dominated by a trend towards olig…
La Loge des Bourgeois de Bruges. Les stratégies de distinction d'une élite commerçante cosmopolite
À Bruges, métropole commerciale de la mer du Nord au bas Moyen Âge, se trouvait un bâtiment très particulier: la Poortersloge ou Loge des Bourgeois , une construction gothique en pierre naturelle qui existe encore sous une forme très restaurée. La construction de cet édifice fut initiée vers l'an 1400 avec pour fonction première de servir d'espace aux activités socio-culturelles de l'élite commerçante urbaine. Le bâtiment était aussi un endroit o…
Edelen in de Vlaamse stedelijke samenleving. Een kwantitatieve benadering van de elite van het laatmiddeleeuwse en vroegmoderne Brugge
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Court as a Stage
Sumptuary legislation, material culture and the semiotics of ‘ vivre noblement ’ in the county of Flanders (14th–16th centuries)
The question addressed in this contribution is a simple one: how was nobility structured in a society in which this particular form of social identity was not yet regulated by the princely state? H
The Late Medieval "Crisis of the Nobility" Reconsidered
Recent historiography on the economic position of the later medieval nobility has seen a marked shift where the post-war paradigm of a "crisis of the nobility" is replaced with a tendency to stress the endurance of noblemen vis-a-vis the economic, political and social transformations of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. Yet, the question of how noble elites adapted to the economic changes of the later Middle Ages remains a poignant one. Based…
The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders
Journal Article The politics of factional conflict in late medieval Flanders Get access Jonas Braekevelt, Jonas Braekevelt Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Frederik Buylaert, Frederik Buylaert Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan Dumolyn, Jan Dumolyn Ghent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Een repliek op Hans Cools, 'Boekbespreking
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Gestion de vengeances et conflits privés au sein de l'élite gantoise à la fin du Moyen Âge
Cette contribution traite essentiellement de la manière dont les élites gantoises de la fin du Moyen Âge géraient ses conflits. Vers 1300, la classe patricienne au pouvoir fut déchirée par plusieurs violents conflits entre familles. Ces conflits aggravaient la rivalité entre les familles patriciennes gantoises et les corps de métier frustrés du pouvoir. Ils s'entrelaçaient avec les tensions politiques plus larges en Flandre. Vers la fin du xiv e …
The transformation of rural elites in late medieval Flanders
Proceeding from an in-depth analysis of the Liberty of Bruges, an important rural district in the late medieval Low Countries, this contribution frames rural elite formation by means of two debates which are seldom used in combination, namely, the debates on state building and on the commercialisation of rural society. We challenge the thesis, inspired by modernisation theory, that socio-economic transformation engendered political change in pre-…
City Portrait, Civic Body, and Commercial Printing in Sixteenth-Century Ghent
This article discusses a woodcut series with an elaborate iconographic representation of the Flemish city of Ghent, printed in 1524 by Pieter de Keysere. The three-sheet composition consists of a city view, an image of the allegorical Maiden of Ghent, and an extensive heraldic program with the coat of arms of prominent Ghent families and of the Ghent craft guilds. The print series’ production and consumption are unraveled and framed within the wi…
Lordship, Urbanization and Social Change in Late Medieval Flanders
In the late 1460s, Leo von Rözmital, a member of the high nobility of Bohemia, embarked on a ‘grand tour’ of Western Europe. He travelled from court to court through Germany, the Low Countries, England, France and the Iberian and Italian peninsula. Two members of his retinue, the Czech squire Václav Schaseck and Gabriel Tetzel from Nurnberg, kept an account of their impressions. When Von Rözmital and his companions visited the Low Countries in 14…
Record-Keeping and Status Performance in the Early Modern Low Countries
From the tenth and eleventh centuries onwards, a network of cities flowered in the Low Countries that derived their existence largely from trade and industry. The practical exigencies that came with the large-scale production and commercialization of goods made sure that in this part of Western Europe the traditional monopoly of the clergy on literacy was broken early on by the precocious rise of a class of merchants and craftsmen who committed t…
La Loge des Bourgeois de Bruges. Les stratégies de distinction d'une élite commerçante cosmopolite
À Bruges, métropole commerciale de la mer du Nord au bas Moyen Âge, se trouvait un bâtiment très particulier: la Poortersloge ou Loge des Bourgeois , une construction gothique en pierre naturelle qui existe encore sous une forme très restaurée. La construction de cet édifice fut initiée vers l'an 1400 avec pour fonction première de servir d'espace aux activités socio-culturelles de l'élite commerçante urbaine. Le bâtiment était aussi un endroit o…
From periphery to centre and back again
This article explores the social history of the political elites of Mechelen, a town that evolved from a seigneurial enclave within the duchy of Brabant to the de facto capital of the Burgundian–Habsburg Low Countries between the 1470s and 1530. Proceeding from a quantitative analysis of lists of aldermen, fiscal registers and epitaphs, the article argues that the short-lived functioning of Mechelen as a capital city had great impact on its rulin…
Returning urban political elites to the research agenda
This article provides a comparative analysis of four large towns in the Southern Low Countries between c . 1350 and c . 1550. Combining the data on Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp – each of which is discussed in greater detail in the articles in this special section – with recent research on Bruges, the authors argue against the historiographical trend in which the political history of late medieval towns is supposedly dominated by a trend towards olig…
City and State in the Medieval Low Countries
Pre-1500
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Post-1800
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c. 1250–1570
The recent debate between Chris Wickham and Shami Ghosh exposes different interpretations of the political economy of Europe, with Wickham arguing for the persistence of the feudal economy up to about 1700, and Ghosh imagining a distinct phase in which economic development was not yet capitalist but was no longer decisively shaped by the demands of lords. This article contributes to the discussion with the story of Flanders, where two contrasting…
Lordship in the Later Middle Ages
Over the last few years, a number of articles have featured in Past and Present on the subject of late medieval lordship. Three were accepted within a four-month period between July and October 2023 (Christian D. Liddy, ‘The Making of Towns, the Making of Polities’; Tristan W. Sharp, ‘Seigneurial Predation in the Late Medieval Feud’; Frederik Buylaert, Thijs Lambrecht, Klaas Van Gelder, and Kaat Cappelle, ‘The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lor…
Games, Gambling, and Social Order in Netherlandish Villages, C. 1250–1600
Crosschecking iconographic and textual evidence, this article explores how games were regulated in the countryside of Flanders, Zeeland, and Holland between c. 1250 and c. 1600. A corpus of village regulations and pardon letters that inform us on gambling, children’s games, archery contests, and so on, is used to engage with established scholarship on these topics, which is exclusively focused on towns. Apart from crosschecking urban and rural re…
Seigneurial institutions and Holland's seventeenth‐century miracle
This article revisits the claim that Holland owed much of its seventeenth‐century efflorescence to the absence of feudal constraints on its economy. Because Holland was relatively late to develop in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it supposedly missed the European Feudal Revolution, thus opening space for an exceptional long‐run development. Whilst this view is correct for serfdom and landlordship, it is not for seigneurial lordship, another …
Patronage and Social Change in Early Netherlandish Painting (ca. 1400–1550)
This contribution intervenes in debates on the social basis of early Netherlandish painting (ca. 1400–1550). While scholars agree that patronage was an important factor in explaining the growing popularity of painting, it is unclear which specific groups were responsible for artistic investment. Drawing on a corpus of around five hundred panel paintings, this article constitutes a quantitative and qualitative intervention in this debate. Apart fr…
Bad Lordship and Peasant Resistance in the Flemish Seigneurie of Eksaarde (c. 1439 to 1482)
This article is concerned with a series of clashes between the successive lords of Eksaarde, a village in Flanders, and their peasants. More so than in other parts of Europe, seigneurial institutions were dominated by peasants rather than lords, but the evidence from Eksaarde reveals that lords tried to protect their rights and that the heavy-handed rule of Duke Charles the Bold (1467–1477) over the Low Countries created opportunities for aggress…
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