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Prof. Dr. Thijs Lambrecht
Prof. Dr. Thijs Lambrecht
thys.lambrecht@ugent.be
Department
Department of History
Research group(s)
GRH - Global and Regional Histories
HPIMSDH - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies
IEMH - Institute for Early Modern History
Modern and Contemporary History
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Food safety in the Low Countries, c. 1200-1400
(
2025
-
2029
)
(De)constructing vermin. Interactions between agriculture and wildlife in the Low Countries (1780-1840)
(
2024
-
2028
)
Lordship and agrarian capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650
(
2022
-
2026
)
Unwanted nature. The persecution of nuisance animals in Flanders and Brabant during the medieval and early modern era, 1400-1600
(
2021
-
2026
)
Economic inequality on the eve of the late medieval crisis. Two regions compared, Tuscany and Northern France, c.1295-c.1320
(
2020
-
2023
)
Agriculture, wage labour and household economies in eighteenth-century Flanders. A regional and integrated analysis
(
2018
-
2022
)
Economic growth and inequality in pre-industrial England. The case of Kingston Lacy manor (Dorset)
(
2016
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2020
)
Poor migrants or strange labourers? Rural-urban relations in migration regulation in eighteenth century Flanders
(
2016
-
2016
)
Economic growth and inequality. Explaining divergent regional growth paths in pre-industrial Europe (Late Middle Ages – 19th century)
(
2015
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2019
)
Paying for deservingness? Poor relief administration, entitlement and local economies in the Southern Low Countries (1750-1830)
(
2015
-
2019
)
Women, labour and land in the late medieval Low Countries. Coastal Flanders, c.1275-c.1575
(
2015
-
2019
)
Explaining the great litigation decline. The impact of social-economic change on litigation patterns in the Franc of Bruges (1670-1795)
(
2014
-
2018
)
CORN. Comparative rural history network (FWO international research network)
(
1996
-
2016
)
Projects as co-supervisor
STREAM. Spatiotemporal research infrastructure for early modern Flanders and Brabant
(
2015
-
2020
)
Inequalities and growth in the late medieval mezzadria Tuscany (15th-early 16th c.)
(
2015
-
2019
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Buylaert, Frederik, et al. “Seigneurial Institutions and Holland’s Seventeenth-Century Miracle.”
Economic History Review
, Wiley, 2027.
Buylaert, Frederik, et al. “Reconsidering Rural Revolts: The Flemish Peasants’ Revolt of 1323-1328 in Wider Context.”
English Historical Review
, 2027.
Buylaert, Frederik, and Thijs Lambrecht. “Bad Lordship and Peasant Resistance in the Flemish Seigneurie of Eksaarde (c. 1439 to 1482).”
JAHRBUCH FUR WIRTSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE
, vol. 67, no. 1, 2026, pp. 173–205, doi:10.1515/jbwg-2026-0006.
Gruwier, Ben, et al. “Cattle Trade at the Dawn of the Modern Era : A Zooarchaeological and Biometric Study of Horn Cores from (Post-)Medieval Urban Sites in Flanders, Belgium.”
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
, vol. 769, 2026, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110280.
Buylaert, Frederik, et al. “The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders (c. 1250-1570).”
PAST & PRESENT
, vol. 267, no. 1, 2025, pp. 3–47, doi:10.1093/pastj/gtae016.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Historical Cartography
Historical Economics
Comparative Rural History
Master's Dissertation
