Wouter Ryckbosch
Biographic Data
| ID | 446907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wouter Ryckbosch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wouter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryckbosch |
| SIGNATURE | RYCKBOSCH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0269-4950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–1850
What was the role of energy in shaping modern economies and fuelling the transition to sustained economic growth? In the historiography on the industrial revolution, the transition to fossil energy carriers plays a central role. Despite recent efforts to gather new empirical evidence, long‐term comparative studies on energy transitions and their economic impact before and during the first industrial revolution remain rare. As a contribution to th…
Is it the cow that sells the steak, or the sizzle? Using animal images to sell meat in mid-nineteenth-century Belgium
Per capita meat consumption in post-industrial countries is higher today than it has been ever since the transition of hunter-gathering to agriculture, while attitudes toward meat production and animal killing have become increasingly characterized by moral ambiguity and disgust. To contribute to our understanding of the genesis of this meat paradox, this study analyses how mid-nineteenth-century Belgian meat retailers constructed the image of th…
Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–1385
Over the past few decades there has been a tendency to focus on the political nature and cultural aspects of medieval collective action, rather than on poverty, inequality and other socio-economic causalities. Based on a detailed reinterpretation of the economic, political, social and material position of the textile workers who revolted in fourteenth-century Bruges, in the highly urbanized and economically developed county of Flanders, we propos…
From Spice to Tea: On Consumer Choice and the Justification of Value in the Early Modern Low Countries
This article uses the case of exotic comestibles consumed in the Low Countries to study the problem of continuity versus transformation in early modern consumer behaviour. The paradigm of changing consumer behaviour resulting from the emergence of the market economy has increasingly been rejected by scholars of late medieval and Renaissance material culture. However, an integrated approach that attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological…
Meat in the post-truth era: Mass media discourses on health and disease in the attention economy
Wealth Inequality in a Time of Transition: Coastal Flanders in the Sixteenth Century
In this article we aim to make a case for a renewed attention to the structural social and political processes that influenced changes in early modern levels of inequality. We argue that early modern changes in inequality were not solely, or even primarily, determined by (exogenous) demographic trends and macro-economic growth, but by structural changes in the (political) economy of early modern society. By studying a micro-level case-study of in…
Introduction ‘Inequality in the Low Countries’
Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800
In ‘splendid isolation'. A comparative perspective on the historiographies of the ‘material renaissance' and the ‘consumer revolution'
Richard Goldthwaite's pioneering work on the material culture of the Italian Renaissance offered many clues for better understanding long-term changes and continuities in European patterns of consumption during the early modern period. Yet the large historiographical body on the subject of the ‘material renaissance’ has largely ignored or rejected these, and has more often than not studied the field in a sort of ‘splendid isolation’. This article…
Early Modern Consumption History: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
Stimulated by wide-ranging theories on its cultural and economic significance, the history of early modern consumption in the Low Countries has received a remarkable amount of attention in historiography during the last three decades. During this period the growing body of empirical evidence, as well as shifting theoretical frameworks, have gradually altered our understanding of early modern patterns of consumption, their causes and consequences.…
Cities of Commerce: An Introduction to the Articles
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
Household credit, social relations, and devotion in the early modern economy. A case study of religious confraternities and credit relations in the Southern Netherlands
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
Vroegmoderne economische ontwikkeling en sociale repercussies in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Nijvel in de achttiende eeuw
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
A targeted public: Public services in fifteenth-century Ghent and Bruges
Though the phrase ‘public services’ is a nineteenth-century invention, which was supported by a developed rhetoric of political economy, this article shows that the concept, practice and supply of such services could also be found in the medieval city. It specifically analyses three areas of urban service provision: jurisprudence and legal security, infrastructure and finally health care and poor relief. Although the available sources tend to str…
Stedelijk initiatief of hertogelijke repressie? Financiële hervormingen en kredietbeleid te Gent (1453-1495)
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
Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800
A targeted public: Public services in fifteenth-century Ghent and Bruges
Though the phrase ‘public services’ is a nineteenth-century invention, which was supported by a developed rhetoric of political economy, this article shows that the concept, practice and supply of such services could also be found in the medieval city. It specifically analyses three areas of urban service provision: jurisprudence and legal security, infrastructure and finally health care and poor relief. Although the available sources tend to str…
Meat in the post-truth era: Mass media discourses on health and disease in the attention economy
From Spice to Tea: On Consumer Choice and the Justification of Value in the Early Modern Low Countries
This article uses the case of exotic comestibles consumed in the Low Countries to study the problem of continuity versus transformation in early modern consumer behaviour. The paradigm of changing consumer behaviour resulting from the emergence of the market economy has increasingly been rejected by scholars of late medieval and Renaissance material culture. However, an integrated approach that attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological…
Early Modern Consumption History: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
Stimulated by wide-ranging theories on its cultural and economic significance, the history of early modern consumption in the Low Countries has received a remarkable amount of attention in historiography during the last three decades. During this period the growing body of empirical evidence, as well as shifting theoretical frameworks, have gradually altered our understanding of early modern patterns of consumption, their causes and consequences.…
Vroegmoderne economische ontwikkeling en sociale repercussies in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Nijvel in de achttiende eeuw
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
Stedelijk initiatief of hertogelijke repressie? Financiële hervormingen en kredietbeleid te Gent (1453-1495)
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
Vroegmoderne economische ontwikkeling en sociale repercussies in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Nijvel in de achttiende eeuw
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
A targeted public: Public services in fifteenth-century Ghent and Bruges
Though the phrase ‘public services’ is a nineteenth-century invention, which was supported by a developed rhetoric of political economy, this article shows that the concept, practice and supply of such services could also be found in the medieval city. It specifically analyses three areas of urban service provision: jurisprudence and legal security, infrastructure and finally health care and poor relief. Although the available sources tend to str…
Cities of Commerce: An Introduction to the Articles
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
Household credit, social relations, and devotion in the early modern economy. A case study of religious confraternities and credit relations in the Southern Netherlands
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
In ‘splendid isolation'. A comparative perspective on the historiographies of the ‘material renaissance' and the ‘consumer revolution'
Richard Goldthwaite's pioneering work on the material culture of the Italian Renaissance offered many clues for better understanding long-term changes and continuities in European patterns of consumption during the early modern period. Yet the large historiographical body on the subject of the ‘material renaissance’ has largely ignored or rejected these, and has more often than not studied the field in a sort of ‘splendid isolation’. This article…
Early Modern Consumption History: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives
Stimulated by wide-ranging theories on its cultural and economic significance, the history of early modern consumption in the Low Countries has received a remarkable amount of attention in historiography during the last three decades. During this period the growing body of empirical evidence, as well as shifting theoretical frameworks, have gradually altered our understanding of early modern patterns of consumption, their causes and consequences.…
Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800
Wealth Inequality in a Time of Transition: Coastal Flanders in the Sixteenth Century
In this article we aim to make a case for a renewed attention to the structural social and political processes that influenced changes in early modern levels of inequality. We argue that early modern changes in inequality were not solely, or even primarily, determined by (exogenous) demographic trends and macro-economic growth, but by structural changes in the (political) economy of early modern society. By studying a micro-level case-study of in…
Introduction ‘Inequality in the Low Countries’
Meat in the post-truth era: Mass media discourses on health and disease in the attention economy
From Spice to Tea: On Consumer Choice and the Justification of Value in the Early Modern Low Countries
This article uses the case of exotic comestibles consumed in the Low Countries to study the problem of continuity versus transformation in early modern consumer behaviour. The paradigm of changing consumer behaviour resulting from the emergence of the market economy has increasingly been rejected by scholars of late medieval and Renaissance material culture. However, an integrated approach that attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological…
Is it the cow that sells the steak, or the sizzle? Using animal images to sell meat in mid-nineteenth-century Belgium
Per capita meat consumption in post-industrial countries is higher today than it has been ever since the transition of hunter-gathering to agriculture, while attitudes toward meat production and animal killing have become increasingly characterized by moral ambiguity and disgust. To contribute to our understanding of the genesis of this meat paradox, this study analyses how mid-nineteenth-century Belgian meat retailers constructed the image of th…
Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379–1385
Over the past few decades there has been a tendency to focus on the political nature and cultural aspects of medieval collective action, rather than on poverty, inequality and other socio-economic causalities. Based on a detailed reinterpretation of the economic, political, social and material position of the textile workers who revolted in fourteenth-century Bruges, in the highly urbanized and economically developed county of Flanders, we propos…
Fuelling the urban economy: A comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600–1850
What was the role of energy in shaping modern economies and fuelling the transition to sustained economic growth? In the historiography on the industrial revolution, the transition to fossil energy carriers plays a central role. Despite recent efforts to gather new empirical evidence, long‐term comparative studies on energy transitions and their economic impact before and during the first industrial revolution remain rare. As a contribution to th…
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…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Economy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · History (4 works)