Bram De Ridder
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bram De Ridder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bram |
| FAMILY NAME | De Ridder |
| SIGNATURE | DE RIDDER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Clipping for the Commission
This Report from the Field discusses the methodology of “clipping history” developed by the European Union-funded research initiative RETOPEA (Religious Toleration and Peace). This project, launched in 2018, uses the history of religious toleration to stimulate educational and policy-related reflection on contemporary religious coexistence. The article discusses the initial doubts about doing public history within conditions pre-set by the Europe…
“And what Do You Do, Exactly?” Comparing Contemporary Definitions and Practices of Applied History
In the last few years, the notion of applied history has seen a notable rise in interest among historians. Arising out of questions related to contemporary concerns, such as political extremism and Covid-19, several projects have taken up the challenge to address these questions and other issues by looking to the past, thereby furthering the idea that applied history warrants the attention of professional (academic) historians. The concept of app…
Applied History in the Netherlands and Flanders
This contribution shifts the debate on ‘applied history’ from the archetypal question abouts terminology and definition (‘what’s in a name’) to its current context and potential (‘why it is here again, and why it is most probably here to stay’). Those advocating ‘applied history’ in the Netherlands and Flanders by and large agree on a shared endeavour to apply both historical skills and insights to contemporary societal debates. They thereby tend…
Carrières in context
Careers in context. Figuring out thirty years of Flemish PhD’s in history The number of history PhD’s in Flanders has significantly increased in the last three decades. Yet little is known about the impact of this evolution on the degree itself. Many reports have argued that the decreasing chances of pursuing an academic career lead ever more young researchers towards employment that has little to do with the university, a trend that this article…
Transregional Territories
Upper Guelders's Four Points of the CompassHistoriography and Transregional Families in a Contested Border Region between the Empire, the Spanish Monarchy, and the Dutch RepublicIn his Historia Ecclesiastica Ducatis Geldriae, published in Brussels in 1719, Johannes Knippenbergh, then pastor of Helden, later dean of Kessel and dedicated amateur historian, wanted to set the record of his native country straight: so far, he argued, the history of th…
When the Analogy Breaks
Between 1 January and 13 March 2020, Flemish media gradually increased their attention to the new Corona virus and the associated COVID -19 disease. This coverage included a lot of attention to the past, as history offered many opportunities for explaining the emerging crisis. In order to better understand this relation between history and news, this article analyses the virus-related coverage of three Flemish media outlets and the historical ref…
How to do Transregional History
This article argues that the method of transregional history offers a valuable new tool for studying early modern territorial borders. Where existing research strands do not always suffice to accommodate the complexity of such boundaries, this new concept can serve as an alternative. Firstly, transregional history points out that early modern boundaries were not the outcome of actions that were pursued at one spatial level, be it local, regional,…
Benchmarking the Past
In the historiography of the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years War scholars have focused principally on the growing differences between the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. In order to explain the eventual separation of the ‘two’ Netherlands, it has been established that the political culture of both countries increasingly grew apart and so prevented reunification. Still, this did not mean that the diplomatic vocabulary of these state…
Sustaining the Munster Peace
Sustaining the Munster Peace: The Chambre Mi-Partie as an Experiment in Transnational Border Arbitration (1648–1675) With the end of the Eighty Years War in the Low Countries, the Spanish-Habsburg monarchy and the Dutch Republic needed to transform their war-torn frontier into a peaceful international border. The 1648 Peace of Munster therefore decreed that a Chambre Mi-Partie would be created, a court of arbitration intended to settle the remain…
Early Modern Peace and International Society
Between the academic fields of International Relations and History there currently exist few real crossovers, despite the fact that both disciplines would benefit from an improved working relationship. As this is especially the case with regard to the pre-modern past, this article offers a new perspective on the possibilities of increased interaction in the field of Early Modern peace-making. Rather than setting up an abstract debate on how the d…
Dynastic marriages 1612/1615. A celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon unionsThe Palatine wedding of 1613
Dynastic marriages 1612/1615. A celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon unions, edited by Margaret M. McGowan, European festival studies: 1450-1700, Farnham & Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2013, xvi + 307 pp., £70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4094-5725-1The Palatine wedding of 1613: protestant alliance and court festival, edited by Sara Smart and Mara R. Wade, Wolfenbutteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, Band 29, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, …
How to do Transregional History
This article argues that the method of transregional history offers a valuable new tool for studying early modern territorial borders. Where existing research strands do not always suffice to accommodate the complexity of such boundaries, this new concept can serve as an alternative. Firstly, transregional history points out that early modern boundaries were not the outcome of actions that were pursued at one spatial level, be it local, regional,…
When the Analogy Breaks
Between 1 January and 13 March 2020, Flemish media gradually increased their attention to the new Corona virus and the associated COVID -19 disease. This coverage included a lot of attention to the past, as history offered many opportunities for explaining the emerging crisis. In order to better understand this relation between history and news, this article analyses the virus-related coverage of three Flemish media outlets and the historical ref…
Benchmarking the Past
In the historiography of the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years War scholars have focused principally on the growing differences between the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. In order to explain the eventual separation of the ‘two’ Netherlands, it has been established that the political culture of both countries increasingly grew apart and so prevented reunification. Still, this did not mean that the diplomatic vocabulary of these state…
Sustaining the Munster Peace
Sustaining the Munster Peace: The Chambre Mi-Partie as an Experiment in Transnational Border Arbitration (1648–1675) With the end of the Eighty Years War in the Low Countries, the Spanish-Habsburg monarchy and the Dutch Republic needed to transform their war-torn frontier into a peaceful international border. The 1648 Peace of Munster therefore decreed that a Chambre Mi-Partie would be created, a court of arbitration intended to settle the remain…
Early Modern Peace and International Society
Between the academic fields of International Relations and History there currently exist few real crossovers, despite the fact that both disciplines would benefit from an improved working relationship. As this is especially the case with regard to the pre-modern past, this article offers a new perspective on the possibilities of increased interaction in the field of Early Modern peace-making. Rather than setting up an abstract debate on how the d…
Dynastic marriages 1612/1615. A celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon unionsThe Palatine wedding of 1613
Dynastic marriages 1612/1615. A celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon unions, edited by Margaret M. McGowan, European festival studies: 1450-1700, Farnham & Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2013, xvi + 307 pp., £70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4094-5725-1The Palatine wedding of 1613: protestant alliance and court festival, edited by Sara Smart and Mara R. Wade, Wolfenbutteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, Band 29, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, …
Sustaining the Munster Peace
Sustaining the Munster Peace: The Chambre Mi-Partie as an Experiment in Transnational Border Arbitration (1648–1675) With the end of the Eighty Years War in the Low Countries, the Spanish-Habsburg monarchy and the Dutch Republic needed to transform their war-torn frontier into a peaceful international border. The 1648 Peace of Munster therefore decreed that a Chambre Mi-Partie would be created, a court of arbitration intended to settle the remain…
Early Modern Peace and International Society
Between the academic fields of International Relations and History there currently exist few real crossovers, despite the fact that both disciplines would benefit from an improved working relationship. As this is especially the case with regard to the pre-modern past, this article offers a new perspective on the possibilities of increased interaction in the field of Early Modern peace-making. Rather than setting up an abstract debate on how the d…
How to do Transregional History
This article argues that the method of transregional history offers a valuable new tool for studying early modern territorial borders. Where existing research strands do not always suffice to accommodate the complexity of such boundaries, this new concept can serve as an alternative. Firstly, transregional history points out that early modern boundaries were not the outcome of actions that were pursued at one spatial level, be it local, regional,…
Benchmarking the Past
In the historiography of the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years War scholars have focused principally on the growing differences between the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. In order to explain the eventual separation of the ‘two’ Netherlands, it has been established that the political culture of both countries increasingly grew apart and so prevented reunification. Still, this did not mean that the diplomatic vocabulary of these state…
Transregional Territories
Upper Guelders's Four Points of the CompassHistoriography and Transregional Families in a Contested Border Region between the Empire, the Spanish Monarchy, and the Dutch RepublicIn his Historia Ecclesiastica Ducatis Geldriae, published in Brussels in 1719, Johannes Knippenbergh, then pastor of Helden, later dean of Kessel and dedicated amateur historian, wanted to set the record of his native country straight: so far, he argued, the history of th…
When the Analogy Breaks
Between 1 January and 13 March 2020, Flemish media gradually increased their attention to the new Corona virus and the associated COVID -19 disease. This coverage included a lot of attention to the past, as history offered many opportunities for explaining the emerging crisis. In order to better understand this relation between history and news, this article analyses the virus-related coverage of three Flemish media outlets and the historical ref…
Applied History in the Netherlands and Flanders
This contribution shifts the debate on ‘applied history’ from the archetypal question abouts terminology and definition (‘what’s in a name’) to its current context and potential (‘why it is here again, and why it is most probably here to stay’). Those advocating ‘applied history’ in the Netherlands and Flanders by and large agree on a shared endeavour to apply both historical skills and insights to contemporary societal debates. They thereby tend…
Carrières in context
Careers in context. Figuring out thirty years of Flemish PhD’s in history The number of history PhD’s in Flanders has significantly increased in the last three decades. Yet little is known about the impact of this evolution on the degree itself. Many reports have argued that the decreasing chances of pursuing an academic career lead ever more young researchers towards employment that has little to do with the university, a trend that this article…
“And what Do You Do, Exactly?” Comparing Contemporary Definitions and Practices of Applied History
In the last few years, the notion of applied history has seen a notable rise in interest among historians. Arising out of questions related to contemporary concerns, such as political extremism and Covid-19, several projects have taken up the challenge to address these questions and other issues by looking to the past, thereby furthering the idea that applied history warrants the attention of professional (academic) historians. The concept of app…
Clipping for the Commission
This Report from the Field discusses the methodology of “clipping history” developed by the European Union-funded research initiative RETOPEA (Religious Toleration and Peace). This project, launched in 2018, uses the history of religious toleration to stimulate educational and policy-related reflection on contemporary religious coexistence. The article discusses the initial doubts about doing public history within conditions pre-set by the Europe…
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