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Klaas Van Gelder is an assistant professor in early modern history and a member of the HOST research group, as well as archivist at the State Archives in Brussels. He studied history at Ghent University where he obtained his MA in 2005 and completed his PhD in 2012. Before joining the VUB in 2021, he worked as an FWO postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, held a six month’s Friedrich Plaschka-fellowship (funded by the Österreichischer Austauschdienst) at the University of Vienna in 2014, and was a Lise Meitner-fellow (funded by the Austrian Research Foundation FWF) at the same institution from 2016 until 2018. From 2019 until 2021 he lectured both at Ghent University and at University of Antwerp, and worked as a research coordinator in the Brain project LORD (State Archives Ghent) in 2020-2021. He is also the treasurer of the historical association Standen & Landen/Anciens Pays et Assemblées d’Etats since 2014, and was a board member of the Dutch-Belgian Werkgroep 18e Eeuw from 2014 until 2020.
Expertise
Klaas Van Gelder’s research encompasses social, political and cultural history of early modern Europe. Within the framework of the FED-tWIN project ACCESS, he currently focuses on access to early modern justice and the profile of litigants in law courts at different levels of society (urban, regional), with a regional focus on the Duchy of Brabant. His further research interests include revolts and revolutions, ritual and ceremony and its legal and political functions, and legislation and the regulation of everyday life in the early modern society. He is the author of Regime Change at a Distance: Austria and the Southern Netherlands Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1716-1725) (Leuven 2016) and the editor of More Than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries (New York 2021).
External positions
Archivist, Rijksarchief België
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OZR4027: Lady Justice’s Thresholds: Access to and Inequality in Early Modern Law Courts
1/12/22 → 30/11/26
Project: Fundamental
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FEDTWIN3: Access to court files and access to justice. The Council of Brabant during the early modern era.
Ryckbosch, W. & Van Gelder, K.
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Fundamental
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OZR2064: Research alliance group VUB-UGent: Institute for Early-Modern History
Van Gelder, K., Winter, A., Vermeesch, G., Limberger, M. & Vermeir, R.
1/04/10 → 6/07/25
Project: Fundamental
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Von der Fremdherrschaft zur Wechselseitigkeit. Die österreichische Verwaltung in der belgischen Geschichtsschreibung
Van Gelder, K., 2022, Die Habsburgermonarchie (1526-1918) als Gegenstand der modernen Historiographie. Winkelbauer, T. (ed.). Wenen: Böhlau Verlag, p. 407-431 (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung; vol. 78).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Specialist
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Addressing audiences abroad: cultural and public diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe
Van Gelder, K. (ed.) & Lamal, N. (ed.), 2021, In: The Seventeenth Century. 36, 3, p. 367-507 141 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Addressing audiences abroad: cultural and public diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe
Van Gelder, K. & Lamal, N., 2021, In: The Seventeenth Century. 36, 3, p. 367-387 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Machtsmisbruik, collectieve actie en heerlijk gezag in het Land van Westerlo: Het politieke proces tegen Jean Philippe Eugène de Merode in 1724
Van Gelder, K., 2021, In: Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de Rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden. 23, 1, p. 32-56 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review van "GODSEY (William D.) & HYDEN-HANSCHO (Veronika), eds. Das Haus Arenberg und die Habsburgermonarchie. Eine transterritoriale Adelsfamilie zwischen Fürstendienst und Eigenständigkeit (16.–20. Jahrhundert). Regensburg, Schnell & Steiner, 2019, 496 p., ill."
Van Gelder, K., 2021, In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis. 99, 2, p. 616-620 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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Gender, Society, and Networks between 1750 and 1820
Klaas Van Gelder (Chair)
8 Sep 2022 → 9 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Princely Legislation and Seigneurial Justice in the County of Flanders, c. 1400-1550
Frederik Buylaert (Speaker), Kaat Cappelle (Speaker) & Klaas Van Gelder (Speaker)
7 Sep 2022 → 9 Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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De paradox van de overvloed: het archief van de Raad van Brabant en de uitdagingen van onderzoek naar de toegankelijkheid van het vroegmoderne gerecht
Klaas Van Gelder (Speaker)
16 Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Seigneurial Police Ordinances in Late Medieval and Early Modern Flanders: Presentation of the Sources and Challenges in Tagging
Kaat Cappelle (Speaker) & Klaas Van Gelder (Speaker)
28 Jun 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Promoting Interests in Times of Turmoil: The Agents and Delegations of the Estates of Brabant and Flanders in the Transition from Spanish to Austrian Rule
Klaas Van Gelder (Speaker)
28 Apr 2022 → 29 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar