Jan Dumolyn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 293818 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jan Dumolyn |
| PRENOMES | Jan |
| SOBRENOME | Dumolyn |
| ASSINATURA | DUMOLYN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7073-8658 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gantois ou Hollandais ? Les origines de Hugo van der Goes et les débuts de sa carrière
Dans cet article, nous réexaminons l’origine et la formation de Hugo van der Goes, longtemps considéré comme un peintre gantois de naissance. En analysant de manière critique les sources archivistiques, nous constatons que le nom de famille van der Goes est quasiment absent des archives gantoises avant 1467. Nous montrons que ce nom renvoie plutôt à une origine zélandaise ou hollandaise, liée à la ville de Goes. Plusieurs porteurs du nom apparais…
Evil Wednesday and Good Friday
This article explores the ways that social groups represented political strife in the late medieval Low Countries, considering how these events were remembered but also how they could be recycled and manipulated. It has already been shown that late medieval politics must have been generational, with those involved in revolts actively maintaining the memories of their predecessors’ struggles. This study argues, however, that the forms of these cyc…
Guerre privée d'un groupe de paysans flamands de la vallée de Cassel contre la ville de Saint-Omer, 1417-1422
Les archives de la ville de Saint-Omer conservent un ensemble remarquable de documents relatifs à une grande querelle entre un certain nombre de paysans de la région voisine de Cassel et les bourgeois de Saint-Omer entre 1417 et 1422. Les témoignages relatifs à ces événements sont très intéressants du point de vue de l'histoire culturelle et de l'anthropologie historique. L'épisode documenté par ces sources couvre une guerre privée de longue hale…
Two Odd Ones Out
The Jacquerie of 1358
The great Jacquerie of 1358, a short-lived but intense peasant revolt in northern France, was a ‘social war’ resulting from various developments that mobilised different social groups. This is convincingly demonstrated by Justine Firnhaber-Baker in a very well researched monograph. This book about one of the later Middle Ages’ most important uprisings— if not perhaps in terms of its duration and scale then certainly in political significance and …
City and State in the Medieval Low Countries
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…
Urban protest in thirteenth-century north-western Europe
The historiography of urban revolts in north-western Europe is abundant, yet events of thirteenth-century urban protest are mostly neglected. They are usually only mentioned briefly as forerunners of later, better documented events. Sources for thirteenth-century events of urban protest are scarce, but not absent. This article gives an overview from the first industrial action in Brabant, Flanders and northern France between 1220 and 1250, to the…
Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth-Century Western Eurasia
In this second chapter we seek to embed the preceding chapter as well as the other contributions to this volume within various interpretative traditions of state formation studies in order to determine a heuristic ground for better understanding the parallels, connections and divergences of fifteenth-century 'statist' appearances in the historiography of Islamic West-Asia, and of Western Eurasia more generally.1 The main questions at stake are as…
Mauvais Mercredi et Vendredi saint
Mauvais Mercredi et Vendredi saint: Conflits politiques urbains et temps liturgique dans les Pays-Bas du Moyen Âge tardifCet article examine la manière dont les groupes sociaux représentaient les conflits politiques dans les Pays-Bas de la fin du Moyen Âge, en étudiant non seulement comment l'on se souvenait de ces événements, mais aussi comment ils pouvaient être recyclés et manipulés. Il a déjà été démontré que la politique de la fin du Moyen Â…
A Chemical Compound in a Capitalist Commodity Chain
According to Immanuel Wallerstein, the sixteenth century saw the emergence of a capitalist world economy in which labor was organized on a global scale, and the production, distribution and use of goods and services were integrated across national boundaries. This article argues that, though exceptional, an integrated, hegemonic division of labor on an international scale did occur before 1500. Adopting one of Wallerstein’s conceptual tools, the …
Medieval Urban Culture
Ballasting the Hanse
The discovery of a remarkable group of vividly coloured rounded cobbles in the fields and monuments of the later medieval outports of Bruges has initiated a multi-disciplinary investigation into their function, provenance, and wider economic meaning. Geological analyses demonstrate that the stones are ballast of exotic lithological nature. A substantial number consist of glacial erratics collected from cobble beaches in the Baltoscandian area. An…
I Thought of it at Work, in Ostend
From the twelfth and certainly from the thirteenth century onwards, a social group of artisans with their own political and economic aspirations can be clearly delineated in Netherlandish towns. Bound through common skilled work, they made up a distinctive group with a self-image and a developing political vision and economic programme. Their "guild ideology" is increasingly clearly expressed in the sources they produced from the fourteenth centu…
Enemies of the Count and of the City
During the fourteenth century, the struggle for power between the craft guilds and patricians dominated the county of Flanders to such an extent that it resulted in three major revolts between 1302 and 1361. A common punishment for collective action was banishment from the city or from the entire county, either temporarily or for life. A mitigation of the capital punishment, sending those politically defeated into exile, partially transferred soc…
Turning Back the Tide
Pendant la hausse et la décadence de Bruges médiéval, une extension portuaire vers la mer du Nord était enchaîné, poldérisé et flanqué avec des canaux, des digues et des avant-ports. Ainsi, on créait un paysage historique ce qui est marqué par la interaction dynamique entre l’homme et la nature. L’objective de cette contribution est de reproduire une critique sur les approches précédents et courants à propos l’évolution du port médiéval de Bruges…
So one would notice the good navigability’
During most of the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the main commercial hub of north-western Europe. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, Bruges lost much of its allure as an economic metropolis. One of the most urgent challenges the urban authorities were facing was the navigability of the waterways in and around the city. While the city government made structural investments to remedy the problems, written s…
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…
‘A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue’
Les « plaintes » des villes flamandes à la fin du xiii e siècle et les discours et pratiques politiques de la commune
In the medieval world, petitions formulated by collectivities often directly or indirectly reflected political languages circulating among larger social groups than the elites. As a legal and political tool, petitions implied that justice had to be delivered by rulers, who had to provide remedies when the rights and privileges of individuals or groups were not respected or people could not maintain a decent livelihood. During the last quarter of …
Urban chronicle writing in late medieval Flanders
The absence of a ‘real’ urban chronicle tradition in fifteenth-century Flanders similar to the Italian or German models has raised questions among scholars. However, there is also no satisfactory consensus on the exact meaning or contents of medieval ‘urban historiography’. Some were ‘official’ city chronicles, while others lauded patrician lineages or took the viewpoint of specific social groups or corporate organizations and reinforced construc…
The Voices of the People in Late Medieval Europe
Throughout the medieval period, the popular classes were always reckoned as a potential force in society even though it was usually dangerous for them to articulate divergent social, political and religious opinions. Sources on medieval political and social life seem to show us a world of order, acquiescence and consent. Otherwise, they reveal a picture of bloodshed and violent strife. During times of intense conflict, however, the human tongue w…
Cities of Commerce, Cities of Constraints. International Trade, Government Institutions and the Law of Commerce in Later Medieval Bruges and the Burgundian State
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
Städtische Wirtschaft im Mittelalter
The overall quality of German Festschriften usually reflects the specific research qualities of the honorand. In this case, most of the thirteen articles offered on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of a social and economic historian as important and productive as Franz Irsigler, represent considerable contributions to a series of topics including medieval markets, industries and urbanisation. Irsigler himself is a multi-faceted medieval hi…
A short manual to the art of prosopography
Patterns of urban rebellion in medieval Flanders
The medieval county of Flanders experienced an extraordinary number of rebellions and revolts, opposing the count, the patricians and the urban middle classes, in various combinations. If the fluctuating balance of power inclined too sharply to one group, or if specific demands of privileged citizens were not fulfilled because they lacked access to power, political challengers rebelled. Representative organs could solve socio-political and econom…
A Bad Chicken was Brooding
Journal Article 'A Bad Chicken was Brooding': Subversive Speech in Late Medieval Flanders Get access Jan Dumolyn, Jan Dumolyn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jelle Haemers Jelle Haemers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 214, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 45-86, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtr041 Published: 27 January 2012
Ballasting the Hanse
The discovery of a remarkable group of vividly coloured rounded cobbles in the fields and monuments of the later medieval outports of Bruges has initiated a multi-disciplinary investigation into their function, provenance, and wider economic meaning. Geological analyses demonstrate that the stones are ballast of exotic lithological nature. A substantial number consist of glacial erratics collected from cobble beaches in the Baltoscandian area. An…
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
Our land is only founded on trade and industry.’ Economic discourses in fifteenth-century Bruges
Economic historians study production, consumption, market phenomena, and economic policies, while what is referred to as 'the history of medieval economic thought' largely remains the province of historians of ideas. However, participants in medieval industry and commerce, informed by daily production, market and financial practices, also uttered discourses on the state of the economy and on the measures governments should take to resolve crises …
Vivre Noblement
The example of two fifteenth-century, high-ranking officers of the Burgundian court shows how a radical transformation of the physical environment and an imitative interaction with material culture could create a powerful elite identity for those not born to nobility. A combination of evidence from archaeological, written, architectural, and art-historical sources reveals the ways in which Peter Bladelin and William Hugonet were able to parlay th…
Urban protest in thirteenth-century north-western Europe
The historiography of urban revolts in north-western Europe is abundant, yet events of thirteenth-century urban protest are mostly neglected. They are usually only mentioned briefly as forerunners of later, better documented events. Sources for thirteenth-century events of urban protest are scarce, but not absent. This article gives an overview from the first industrial action in Brabant, Flanders and northern France between 1220 and 1250, to the…
I Thought of it at Work, in Ostend
From the twelfth and certainly from the thirteenth century onwards, a social group of artisans with their own political and economic aspirations can be clearly delineated in Netherlandish towns. Bound through common skilled work, they made up a distinctive group with a self-image and a developing political vision and economic programme. Their "guild ideology" is increasingly clearly expressed in the sources they produced from the fourteenth centu…
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…
So one would notice the good navigability’
During most of the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the main commercial hub of north-western Europe. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, Bruges lost much of its allure as an economic metropolis. One of the most urgent challenges the urban authorities were facing was the navigability of the waterways in and around the city. While the city government made structural investments to remedy the problems, written s…
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…
Population et structures professionnelles à Bruges aux XIVe et XVe siècles
Bevolking en beroepstructuur te Brugge in de 14de en 15de eeuw. Zoals algemeen geweten vormden de late middeleeuwen een turbulente periode voor de stedelijke economieen in Vlaanderen. De aanwijzingen over het bevolkingsaantal van de wereeldmarkt Brugge, waarover we op drie precieze momenten beschikken (1338-1340, 1440, 1477), suggereren een relatieve stabiliteit tijdens de 14de en 15de eeuw. Dit aantal fluctueerde tussen ongeveer 30 000 tot 40 00…
Population et structures professionnelles à Bruges aux XIVe et XVe siècles
Bevolking en beroepstructuur te Brugge in de 14de en 15de eeuw. Zoals algemeen geweten vormden de late middeleeuwen een turbulente periode voor de stedelijke economieen in Vlaanderen. De aanwijzingen over het bevolkingsaantal van de wereeldmarkt Brugge, waarover we op drie precieze momenten beschikken (1338-1340, 1440, 1477), suggereren een relatieve stabiliteit tijdens de 14de en 15de eeuw. Dit aantal fluctueerde tussen ongeveer 30 000 tot 40 00…
Organische intellectuelen in het politieke lichaam. De staatsideologie van de laatmiddeleeuwse Bourgondische ambtenaren
Binnen de geschiedenis van het politieke denken woedt al lang een discussie over het ontstaan van de raison d'tat, van een autonome "staatsideologie". Vr de zeventiende eeuw bestond er volgens de specialisten van het middeleeuwse politieke denken immers geen autonoom politiek discours(2). Sinds wanneer werd dan het publieke karakter van de staat ideologisch losgekoppeld van de persoon van de vorst? Volgens Skinner moet een "moderne staatsideologi…
Marginalen of radicalen? Het vertoog over de 'roepers en krijsers' tijdens stedelijke opstanden, voornamelijk in het laatmiddeleeuwse Vlaanderen
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
Patterns of urban rebellion in medieval Flanders
The medieval county of Flanders experienced an extraordinary number of rebellions and revolts, opposing the count, the patricians and the urban middle classes, in various combinations. If the fluctuating balance of power inclined too sharply to one group, or if specific demands of privileged citizens were not fulfilled because they lacked access to power, political challengers rebelled. Representative organs could solve socio-political and econom…
Nobles, Patricians and Officers
The county of Flanders belonged to one of the most urbanisedregions of Western Europe. In the later medieval period, it witnessed therise of a new power elite. As a consequence of the state formation processimpoverished noble lineages who survived by serving the prince fusedwith rich patrician families who also took up princely offices. They didthis by forming social networks based on marriage alliances. The nobilitydid not at all close itself of…
Les réseaux politiques locaux en Flandre sous la domination bourguignonne
Dans les villes flamandes où siégeaient les institutions instaurées par les ducs de Valois, des réseaux politico-sociaux se créèrent avec pour résultat l'intégration directe ou indirecte des élites politiques locales dans l'appareil de l'État bourguignon. Les ducs de Bourgogne ont fait appel aux réseaux sociaux et politiques de leurs fonctionnaires lors du développement de leur pouvoir, et utilisaient leurs connexions et leur courtage de pouvoir,…
The Political and Symbolic Economy of State Feudalism
The article examines social, economic, political and symbolic relations and exchanges within late-medieval state structure, with a specific focus on the fifteenth-century county of Flanders under Burgundian rule. The author applies and elaborates Jean-Philippe Genet's concept of 'state feudalism' as a more centralised, political articulation of the feudal mode of production, in which state taxes and the redistribution of surplus-product among the…
The ‘Terrible Wednesday’ of Pentecost
On 22 May 1437 a violent disturbance of the social order occurred in Bruges. Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, only narrowly escaped with his life, while Jean de Villiers, lord of L’Isle‐Adam, was killed. Contradictory and competing accounts of these events have survived which illustrate princely and urban discourses on the Bruges rebellion of 1436–8. Careful analysis of these sources reveals that the social and political struggles between the c…
Vivre Noblement
The example of two fifteenth-century, high-ranking officers of the Burgundian court shows how a radical transformation of the physical environment and an imitative interaction with material culture could create a powerful elite identity for those not born to nobility. A combination of evidence from archaeological, written, architectural, and art-historical sources reveals the ways in which Peter Bladelin and William Hugonet were able to parlay th…
Henri Pirenne en het particularisme van de laatmiddeleeuwse Vlaamse steden
Pouvoir d'État et enrichissement personnel
State power and personal enrichment : investments and accumulation strategies carried out by the Duke of Burgundy’s officials in Flanders. In the Late Middle Ages, Flemish civil servants played a key role in the creation of the Burgundian State. The revenues they generated in various ways and from various sources were first invested in landed property by senior civil servants. The fiefs and domains were indeed very valuable as symbols of authorit…
Privileges and novelties
During the negotiations with their Flemish subjects, the Burgundian dukes generally asked for taxes or military aid, while their subjects demanded the confirmation of privileges and the political and economic stability necessary for trade and industry to flourish. In this analysis of the institutionalized bargaining sessions between cities, rural districts and the dukes in Flanders, it will be shown that a specific political discourse developed a…
Criers and shouters
In the majority of the narrative sources concerning late medieval Flanders and Brabant we encounter very negative descriptions of rebels. They were often referred to as 'mutineers' or as 'the bad' or 'the evil'. Rebels were attributed the vices of irrationality, foolishness, stubbornness and pride, or they were considered as spineless followers of conspiring demagogues. The often spontaneous character of their actions was thus misjudged by the ch…
Le povre peuple estoit moult opprime
This article looks at discourses on 'the people', 'the common man' and other classifications of the subaltern social groups, produced by Jean Froissart and the Burgundian chroniclers who followed in his footsteps. In contrast to the significant political and economic dynamism attributed to the Flemish burghers in the development of the Burgundian state, these urban groups occupy only a very modest place in this chronicle tradition, while peasants…
Une idéologie urbaine « bricolée » en Flandre médiévale
En définissant l’idéologie urbaine de la fin du Moyen Âge comme un «discours politique et social systématique, constitué d’éléments propres à la vie urbaine au Moyen Âge et représentant les rapports de force dans la ville elle-même et avec le monde extérieur » , on étudiera ici le cas de Bruges vers l’an 1400, et plus spécifiquement un poème allégorique du fameux chansonnier de Gruuthuse. Si on le replace dans son contexte culturel, social et pol…
Our land is only founded on trade and industry.’ Economic discourses in fifteenth-century Bruges
Economic historians study production, consumption, market phenomena, and economic policies, while what is referred to as 'the history of medieval economic thought' largely remains the province of historians of ideas. However, participants in medieval industry and commerce, informed by daily production, market and financial practices, also uttered discourses on the state of the economy and on the measures governments should take to resolve crises …
Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries – By Alastair Duke
Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries . By Alastair Duke . Edited by Judith Pollmann and Andrew Spicer . Ashgate . 2009 . xiv + 320 pp. £65.00 . This volume brings together a collection of essays by one of the leading specialists of the political and religious history of the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of which had previously been published between 1996 and 2009 except for two articles that appear…
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
Contact and Exchange in Later Medieval Europe
Manors and Markets
Journal Article Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500–1600, by Bas van Bavel Get access Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500–1600, by Bas van Bavel (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2010; pp. xiv + 492. £75). Jan Dumolyn Jan Dumolyn Universiteit Gent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue 524, February 2012, Pages 141…
A Bad Chicken was Brooding
Journal Article 'A Bad Chicken was Brooding': Subversive Speech in Late Medieval Flanders Get access Jan Dumolyn, Jan Dumolyn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jelle Haemers Jelle Haemers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 214, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 45-86, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtr041 Published: 27 January 2012
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…
The Battle of Nicopolis (1396), Burgundian Catastrophe and Ottoman Fait Divers
This article compares ideological production in the Burgundian sources with the Ottoman sources and ascertains that there was a contrast in their respective treatments of the battle of Nicopolis (1396). This event was the first major encounter between the Ottoman Empire and the Western European states of the later Middle Ages. A paradox can be observed between the Burgundian sources on the one hand and Ottoman chronicles on the other : in the Bur…
Let Each Man Carry on With his Trade and Remain Silent’
The vernacular literary output of the ‘chambers of rhetoric’ in the Low Countries provides us with some insight into the ideology of the urban medieval middling classes. This literature included criticisms of social order, and it is argued here that whilst these come from an inherited religious discourse of reform, they can nonetheless be read as speaking to a political ideology particular to the urban context of the late Middle Ages. This articl…
Y avait-il des « révoltes fiscales » dans les villes médiévales des Pays-Bas méridionaux
Peut-on parler de « révolte fiscale » au Moyen Âge et si oui, s'agit-il d'un concept historiographiquement pertinent ? Cette tournure est souvent utilisée afin de caractériser les actions collectives survenant à la suite d'explosions de mécontentements populaires provoquées par une certaine mesure fiscale ou dirigées contre la pression fiscale de façon générale. Avec une étude de cas sur la révolte de Saint-Omer de 1467, nous essayons de montrer …
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