Anne Winter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Winter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Winter |
| SIGNATURE | WINTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9139-8282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism: Rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700
This article looks at the impact of economic and demographic structures on variations in rural poor relief in early modern Flanders by analysing empirical data at parish level. By combining data on poor relief income and expenses as well as on relief recipients from a survey from 1700 with data on population and land taxes, we demonstrate a close connection between agrarian relations of production and poor relief practices. Together they show how…
To Help Him Recover from His Losses’: Royal Begging Licences in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760s-1780s
This article explores a collection of circa 400 applications for 'begging letters' conserved in the archives of the Privy Council of the Austrian Netherlands from the late 1760s to the early 1780s. Such Lettres de Quête were issued in the name of the Habsburg monarch to subjects who had lost their possessions to fire or other natural disasters, and allowed their bearers to travel around begging. By means of a qualitative reading of the materials,…
The Democratization of Long-Distance Migration: Trajectories and Flows during the “Mobility Transition,” 1850–1910
This article analyzes and demonstrates the declining social selectivity of migration distance in Europe’s long nineteenth century and argues that this drove a radically new process of democratization of long-distance migration. It uses innovative spatial and quantitative analysis of nominal data on more than 5,000 international migrants who moved to the booming port city of Antwerp in present-day Belgium between 1850 and 1910. Examining the chang…
Tussen corporatisme en kapitalisme: Stedelijke nijverheid en arbeid in achttiende-eeuws Vlaanderen
This article uses returns by nineteen Flemish cities to an industrial survey undertaken by the central authorities in the Austrian Netherlands in 1738, to explore the state of urban industries in the County of Flanders on the eve of an economic revival that would lead into the first industrial revolution on the European continent. By focussing on three empirical questions – the extent and nature of industrial activity, the importance of craft gui…
Micro-Mobility in Flux: Municipal Migration Levels in the Provinces of Flanders and Antwerp, 1796–1846
In this article we use new, unique data on population composition and socio-economic structure for the c. 670 municipalities of the Belgian provinces of East Flanders, West Flanders and Antwerp in 1796, 1815 and 1846, in order to gain insight into the changing patterns of local migration intensity from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Although so-called micro-mobility is often disregarded in migration studies, this article argue…
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s
International audience
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s
STREAM (Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Brabant and Flanders): Sources, Data and Methods
This article presents the technical characteristics of the Belgian STREAM-project (2015–2019). The goal of STREAM is to facilitate and innovate historical research into local and regional processes through the development of a spatiotemporal infrastructure for early modern Brabant and Flanders, two of the most urbanized and developed areas of pre-industrial Europe. To this end, STREAM systematically collects a range of key data from a diversity o…
Judicial Review and Democratization in Francophone West Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 140 - 165
Judicial review and democratization in francophone West Africa
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 133 - 139
Pre-industrial welfare between regional economies and local regimes: Rural poor relief in Flanders around 1800
This study uses data on income and distribution of relief payments from local poor relief tables for 512 rural parishes in Flanders (present-day Belgium) in 1807 to examine spatial variation in poor relief practices in a region characterised by well-established local poor relief institutions and marked socio-economic differences. By combining data on poor relief with local data on population, landholding and occupational structure, we map out the…
An old poor law on the Continent? Agrarian capitalism, poor taxes, and village conflict in eighteenth-century coastal Flanders
Poor relief provisions in early modern Europe are often considered to have been characterized by a divide between a uniform, compulsory, tax-based, and relatively secure and generous poor law 'system' in England, and the more haphazard, voluntary, relatively parsimonious, insecure, and predominantly urban relief practices on the Continent. In this article we challenge these assumptions by arguing that the spread of agrarian capitalism in coastal …
Gated Communities: Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities
Een dwalend bestaan? Mobiliteit bij veroordeelde landlopers in België (1870-1914/30)
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
Alone and Far from Home: Gender and Migration Trajectories of Single Foreign Newcomers to Antwerp, 1850-1880
On the basis of nominal data from local foreigners’ files, this article examines gender differences in the trajectories of more than 3,000 single foreign newcomers to Antwerp between 1850 and 1880. The data demonstrate an overall expansion, ruralization, and feminization of the migration field over time, attuned to the evolution of the port town’s dual labor market. Foreign single women were less specialized than their skilled male counterparts a…
Rural crisis and rural exodus? Local migration dynamics during the crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium)
This article analyses the migration dynamics in the wake of the 1845–1847 subsistence crisis in Flanders by means of a quantitative analysis of key demographic and economic data at municipal level. The data are unique in that they allow to directly measure in-migration and out-migration at the level of individual villages and towns. The results show that contrary to the powerful image of a push-driven rural exodus, it was not the villages hardest…
Population and Migration: European and Chinese Experiences Compared
This article examines the demographic, spatial, social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of migration to late medieval and early modern cities. It considers European experiences from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and explores parallels and contrasts with Chinese cities from the Song to Qing dynasties. The chapter discusses the overall demographic importance of urban migration, and then compares and juxtaposes different t…
Défis et dénis autour de l'évaluation de la dangerosité
À travers l'étude d'un échantillon de dossiers pénaux, d'entretiens et d'observations, cet article évalue la notion de dangerosité vue par les juges, psychiatres et psychologues. Les résultats (discontinuité des interventions, hétérogénéité des savoirs mobilisés, méfiance à l'égard des usages judiciaires de ceux-ci...) plaident en faveur d'un « cadre unifiant » capable de synthétiser ces différentes approches
Migration, Poor Relief and Local Autonomy: Settlement Policies in England and the Southern Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century
Many historians have argued that settlement legislation was a cornerstone of poor relief administration in early modern and early industrial England and Wales. The Settlement Act of 1662 and later additions codified the criteria of local belonging inherent in the parochial system of poor relief established by the Elizabethan Poor Laws. By laying out a national scheme for parochial poor relief, financed by a compulsory tax on rateable value and ad…
Circuits de migration vers un port en formation: Anvers, 1760-1860
La représentation commune des migrations du dix-neuvième siècle comme le transfert soudain et unique des populations des campagnes vers les villes au moment où l'Europe effectuait sa transition d'une société pré-industrielle à une société industrielle a été sensiblement revue au cours des dernières années. S'appuyant sur les recherches académiques récentes destinées à développer un cadre conceptuel novateur, cet article prend la ville belge d'Anv…
De l'adolescence dite « délinquante: Un Autre Paradigme Du Lien
Régulièrement, la littérature intéressée par la délinquance au temps de l’adolescence convoque la défaillance de l’instance paternelle comme explicative des transgressions du lien social. Ce sont là les héritages d’une tradition théorique qui a témoigné à maintes reprises des effets de la triangulation œdipienne, paradigmatique des relations affectives et sociales. Or, un pan de la clinique montre aujourd’hui tout le poids d’une dynamique de l’éc…
Abandoned in Brussels, Delivered in Paris: Long-Distance Transports of Unwanted Children in the Eighteenth Century
The study uses examinations and other documents produced in the course of a large-scale investigation undertaken by the central authorities of the Austrian Netherlands in the 1760s on the transportation of about thirty children from Brussels to the Parisian foundling house by a Brussels shoemaker and his wife. It combines the rich archival evidence with sparse indications in the literature to demonstrate that long-distance transports of abandoned…
Caught between Law and Practice: Migrants and Settlement Legislation in the Southern Low Countries in a Comparative Perspective, c. 1700–1900
Historiographical debates on the causes and implications of early modern and early industrial settlement legislation, which determined the locality where one could apply for poor relief, have so far focused mainly on England and Wales. These regions are deemed exceptional for the national character and universality of their Poor Laws (1601), associated Act of Settlement (1662) and later amendments. However, if the focus is shifted from the nation…
Vagrancy” as an Adaptive Strategy: The Duchy of Brabant, 1767–1776
The study builds on a representative sample of more than 2,500 court cases against vagrants in the Duchy of Brabant between 1767 and 1776. Individual evidence on social background and whereabouts has been quantitatively processed to provide qualitative insight into the “why” and “how” of their movements. Transcending the judicial framework and historical and historiographical biases, these “vagrants” are shown to have displayed various patterns o…
Gang Graffiti as a Discourse Genre
This paper seeks to present a new understanding of the nature of gang graffiti. Through the analysis of 1522 utterances found on 107 surfaces in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, we argue against the commonly held notion that the major function of gang graffiti is to mark territory. A careful consideration of the variety of utterance types, their interactive nature and their location reveals a more complex discourse system reflecting the s…
Gang Graffiti as a Discourse Genre
This paper seeks to present a new understanding of the nature of gang graffiti. Through the analysis of 1522 utterances found on 107 surfaces in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, we argue against the commonly held notion that the major function of gang graffiti is to mark territory. A careful consideration of the variety of utterance types, their interactive nature and their location reveals a more complex discourse system reflecting the s…
Vagrancy” as an Adaptive Strategy: The Duchy of Brabant, 1767–1776
The study builds on a representative sample of more than 2,500 court cases against vagrants in the Duchy of Brabant between 1767 and 1776. Individual evidence on social background and whereabouts has been quantitatively processed to provide qualitative insight into the “why” and “how” of their movements. Transcending the judicial framework and historical and historiographical biases, these “vagrants” are shown to have displayed various patterns o…
Caught between Law and Practice: Migrants and Settlement Legislation in the Southern Low Countries in a Comparative Perspective, c. 1700–1900
Historiographical debates on the causes and implications of early modern and early industrial settlement legislation, which determined the locality where one could apply for poor relief, have so far focused mainly on England and Wales. These regions are deemed exceptional for the national character and universality of their Poor Laws (1601), associated Act of Settlement (1662) and later amendments. However, if the focus is shifted from the nation…
Alone and Far from Home: Gender and Migration Trajectories of Single Foreign Newcomers to Antwerp, 1850-1880
On the basis of nominal data from local foreigners’ files, this article examines gender differences in the trajectories of more than 3,000 single foreign newcomers to Antwerp between 1850 and 1880. The data demonstrate an overall expansion, ruralization, and feminization of the migration field over time, attuned to the evolution of the port town’s dual labor market. Foreign single women were less specialized than their skilled male counterparts a…
Migration, Poor Relief and Local Autonomy: Settlement Policies in England and the Southern Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century
Many historians have argued that settlement legislation was a cornerstone of poor relief administration in early modern and early industrial England and Wales. The Settlement Act of 1662 and later additions codified the criteria of local belonging inherent in the parochial system of poor relief established by the Elizabethan Poor Laws. By laying out a national scheme for parochial poor relief, financed by a compulsory tax on rateable value and ad…
The Democratization of Long-Distance Migration: Trajectories and Flows during the “Mobility Transition,” 1850–1910
This article analyzes and demonstrates the declining social selectivity of migration distance in Europe’s long nineteenth century and argues that this drove a radically new process of democratization of long-distance migration. It uses innovative spatial and quantitative analysis of nominal data on more than 5,000 international migrants who moved to the booming port city of Antwerp in present-day Belgium between 1850 and 1910. Examining the chang…
Micro-Mobility in Flux: Municipal Migration Levels in the Provinces of Flanders and Antwerp, 1796–1846
In this article we use new, unique data on population composition and socio-economic structure for the c. 670 municipalities of the Belgian provinces of East Flanders, West Flanders and Antwerp in 1796, 1815 and 1846, in order to gain insight into the changing patterns of local migration intensity from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Although so-called micro-mobility is often disregarded in migration studies, this article argue…
Rural crisis and rural exodus? Local migration dynamics during the crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium)
This article analyses the migration dynamics in the wake of the 1845–1847 subsistence crisis in Flanders by means of a quantitative analysis of key demographic and economic data at municipal level. The data are unique in that they allow to directly measure in-migration and out-migration at the level of individual villages and towns. The results show that contrary to the powerful image of a push-driven rural exodus, it was not the villages hardest…
Gang Graffiti as a Discourse Genre
This paper seeks to present a new understanding of the nature of gang graffiti. Through the analysis of 1522 utterances found on 107 surfaces in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, we argue against the commonly held notion that the major function of gang graffiti is to mark territory. A careful consideration of the variety of utterance types, their interactive nature and their location reveals a more complex discourse system reflecting the s…
Vagrancy” as an Adaptive Strategy: The Duchy of Brabant, 1767–1776
The study builds on a representative sample of more than 2,500 court cases against vagrants in the Duchy of Brabant between 1767 and 1776. Individual evidence on social background and whereabouts has been quantitatively processed to provide qualitative insight into the “why” and “how” of their movements. Transcending the judicial framework and historical and historiographical biases, these “vagrants” are shown to have displayed various patterns o…
Caught between Law and Practice: Migrants and Settlement Legislation in the Southern Low Countries in a Comparative Perspective, c. 1700–1900
Historiographical debates on the causes and implications of early modern and early industrial settlement legislation, which determined the locality where one could apply for poor relief, have so far focused mainly on England and Wales. These regions are deemed exceptional for the national character and universality of their Poor Laws (1601), associated Act of Settlement (1662) and later amendments. However, if the focus is shifted from the nation…
Abandoned in Brussels, Delivered in Paris: Long-Distance Transports of Unwanted Children in the Eighteenth Century
The study uses examinations and other documents produced in the course of a large-scale investigation undertaken by the central authorities of the Austrian Netherlands in the 1760s on the transportation of about thirty children from Brussels to the Parisian foundling house by a Brussels shoemaker and his wife. It combines the rich archival evidence with sparse indications in the literature to demonstrate that long-distance transports of abandoned…
De l'adolescence dite « délinquante: Un Autre Paradigme Du Lien
Régulièrement, la littérature intéressée par la délinquance au temps de l’adolescence convoque la défaillance de l’instance paternelle comme explicative des transgressions du lien social. Ce sont là les héritages d’une tradition théorique qui a témoigné à maintes reprises des effets de la triangulation œdipienne, paradigmatique des relations affectives et sociales. Or, un pan de la clinique montre aujourd’hui tout le poids d’une dynamique de l’éc…
Population and Migration: European and Chinese Experiences Compared
This article examines the demographic, spatial, social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of migration to late medieval and early modern cities. It considers European experiences from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and explores parallels and contrasts with Chinese cities from the Song to Qing dynasties. The chapter discusses the overall demographic importance of urban migration, and then compares and juxtaposes different t…
Défis et dénis autour de l'évaluation de la dangerosité
À travers l'étude d'un échantillon de dossiers pénaux, d'entretiens et d'observations, cet article évalue la notion de dangerosité vue par les juges, psychiatres et psychologues. Les résultats (discontinuité des interventions, hétérogénéité des savoirs mobilisés, méfiance à l'égard des usages judiciaires de ceux-ci...) plaident en faveur d'un « cadre unifiant » capable de synthétiser ces différentes approches
Migration, Poor Relief and Local Autonomy: Settlement Policies in England and the Southern Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century
Many historians have argued that settlement legislation was a cornerstone of poor relief administration in early modern and early industrial England and Wales. The Settlement Act of 1662 and later additions codified the criteria of local belonging inherent in the parochial system of poor relief established by the Elizabethan Poor Laws. By laying out a national scheme for parochial poor relief, financed by a compulsory tax on rateable value and ad…
Circuits de migration vers un port en formation: Anvers, 1760-1860
La représentation commune des migrations du dix-neuvième siècle comme le transfert soudain et unique des populations des campagnes vers les villes au moment où l'Europe effectuait sa transition d'une société pré-industrielle à une société industrielle a été sensiblement revue au cours des dernières années. S'appuyant sur les recherches académiques récentes destinées à développer un cadre conceptuel novateur, cet article prend la ville belge d'Anv…
Rural crisis and rural exodus? Local migration dynamics during the crisis of the 1840s in Flanders (Belgium)
This article analyses the migration dynamics in the wake of the 1845–1847 subsistence crisis in Flanders by means of a quantitative analysis of key demographic and economic data at municipal level. The data are unique in that they allow to directly measure in-migration and out-migration at the level of individual villages and towns. The results show that contrary to the powerful image of a push-driven rural exodus, it was not the villages hardest…
Gated Communities: Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities
Een dwalend bestaan? Mobiliteit bij veroordeelde landlopers in België (1870-1914/30)
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
Alone and Far from Home: Gender and Migration Trajectories of Single Foreign Newcomers to Antwerp, 1850-1880
On the basis of nominal data from local foreigners’ files, this article examines gender differences in the trajectories of more than 3,000 single foreign newcomers to Antwerp between 1850 and 1880. The data demonstrate an overall expansion, ruralization, and feminization of the migration field over time, attuned to the evolution of the port town’s dual labor market. Foreign single women were less specialized than their skilled male counterparts a…
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s
International audience
Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s
STREAM (Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Brabant and Flanders): Sources, Data and Methods
This article presents the technical characteristics of the Belgian STREAM-project (2015–2019). The goal of STREAM is to facilitate and innovate historical research into local and regional processes through the development of a spatiotemporal infrastructure for early modern Brabant and Flanders, two of the most urbanized and developed areas of pre-industrial Europe. To this end, STREAM systematically collects a range of key data from a diversity o…
Judicial Review and Democratization in Francophone West Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 140 - 165
Judicial review and democratization in francophone West Africa
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 133 - 139
Pre-industrial welfare between regional economies and local regimes: Rural poor relief in Flanders around 1800
This study uses data on income and distribution of relief payments from local poor relief tables for 512 rural parishes in Flanders (present-day Belgium) in 1807 to examine spatial variation in poor relief practices in a region characterised by well-established local poor relief institutions and marked socio-economic differences. By combining data on poor relief with local data on population, landholding and occupational structure, we map out the…
An old poor law on the Continent? Agrarian capitalism, poor taxes, and village conflict in eighteenth-century coastal Flanders
Poor relief provisions in early modern Europe are often considered to have been characterized by a divide between a uniform, compulsory, tax-based, and relatively secure and generous poor law 'system' in England, and the more haphazard, voluntary, relatively parsimonious, insecure, and predominantly urban relief practices on the Continent. In this article we challenge these assumptions by arguing that the spread of agrarian capitalism in coastal …
Micro-Mobility in Flux: Municipal Migration Levels in the Provinces of Flanders and Antwerp, 1796–1846
In this article we use new, unique data on population composition and socio-economic structure for the c. 670 municipalities of the Belgian provinces of East Flanders, West Flanders and Antwerp in 1796, 1815 and 1846, in order to gain insight into the changing patterns of local migration intensity from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Although so-called micro-mobility is often disregarded in migration studies, this article argue…
Tussen corporatisme en kapitalisme: Stedelijke nijverheid en arbeid in achttiende-eeuws Vlaanderen
This article uses returns by nineteen Flemish cities to an industrial survey undertaken by the central authorities in the Austrian Netherlands in 1738, to explore the state of urban industries in the County of Flanders on the eve of an economic revival that would lead into the first industrial revolution on the European continent. By focussing on three empirical questions – the extent and nature of industrial activity, the importance of craft gui…
To Help Him Recover from His Losses’: Royal Begging Licences in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760s-1780s
This article explores a collection of circa 400 applications for 'begging letters' conserved in the archives of the Privy Council of the Austrian Netherlands from the late 1760s to the early 1780s. Such Lettres de Quête were issued in the name of the Habsburg monarch to subjects who had lost their possessions to fire or other natural disasters, and allowed their bearers to travel around begging. By means of a qualitative reading of the materials,…
The Democratization of Long-Distance Migration: Trajectories and Flows during the “Mobility Transition,” 1850–1910
This article analyzes and demonstrates the declining social selectivity of migration distance in Europe’s long nineteenth century and argues that this drove a radically new process of democratization of long-distance migration. It uses innovative spatial and quantitative analysis of nominal data on more than 5,000 international migrants who moved to the booming port city of Antwerp in present-day Belgium between 1850 and 1910. Examining the chang…
Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism: Rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700
This article looks at the impact of economic and demographic structures on variations in rural poor relief in early modern Flanders by analysing empirical data at parish level. By combining data on poor relief income and expenses as well as on relief recipients from a survey from 1700 with data on population and land taxes, we demonstrate a close connection between agrarian relations of production and poor relief practices. Together they show how…
Political science (18 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century (9 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works)