Marie-Charlotte Dubois

Marie-Charlotte Dubois obtained her Bachelor of Arts in History (2022) and Master of Arts in History (2023) at KU Leuven. She is specialized in medieval history. For her bachelor's dissertation, she analyzed the role of a university education on the further careers of Leuven students in the city administration of Veurne during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In her master's thesis she studied the position and adaptability of Bruges craftsmen in the clothing industry during the late Middle Ages. Since November 2024 she is also secretary of the Vlaamse Werkgroep Mediëvistiek.

In November 2023, she started a doctoral research project on the early development of urban communities in the Southern Netherlands and Northern France. This study looks for connections between people, documents and contexts from an anthropological perspective. The research is part of the FWO project “A Pragmatic Reality: The Performance and Codification of Collective Agency in the ‘Age of Freedom’ of Urban Communities in the Southern Low Countries and Northern France (Late 11th – Early 13th Centuries)”. This research project is supervised by Els De Paermentier, Jan Dumolyn (UGhent, Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies), Dirk Heirbaut (UGhent, Institute for Legal History) and Bart Lambert (VUB, Social History Of Capitalism).