About
I am a medievalist and legal historian living in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In the second half of 2022 I was a staff member at the
Regionaal Archief Zuid-Utrecht, Wijk bij Duurstede. In 2020 I worked as a project archivist at
Utrecht University Library, Special Collections. with a sequel from May to August 2021. From 2016 until December 2019 I worked at
Het Utrechts Archief.
After my M.Litt. in History at Utrecht University (1988) I wrote my Ph.D. thesis at Erasmus University Rotterdam on late medieval and Early Modern legal argumentation (1994). I worked at several libraries and archival institutions, among them the Stephan-Kuttner-Institute for Medieval Canon Law, the Erfgoedcentrum Nederlands Kloosterleven, the Brothers CMM (Fraters van Tilburg) and Het Utrechts Archief, and also from 2000 to 2007 as an IT employee with a number of commercial firms.
Publications
‘Searching Slavery Laws in British North America’,
Rg/Rechtsgeschichte 30 (2022) –
online – review of
Slavery, Law & Power in the British Empire and Early America
[with Gijs Dreijer], ‘Een tractaet van avarien – 1617 – Quintyn Weytsen (1517-1564)’, in:
Juristen die schreven en bleven. Nederlandstalige rechtsgeleerde klassiekers, G. Martyn, L. Berkvens and P. Brood (eds.) (Hilversum 2020) 38-41.
C.A. van Kalveen (+), with K. van Vliet, O.M.D.F. Vervaart and T.H.L. van de Sande (eds.),
Inventaris van het archief van huis Hardenbroek 1353-1995 (2013) (2 vol., Utrecht 2019) – also online at
Het Utrechts Archief, toegang 1010
‘Vroege juridische glossen. Commentaar naast en tussen de regels’, in:
Perkament in stukken. Teruggevonden middeleeuwse handschriftfragmenten, B. Jaski, M. Mostert and K. van Vliet (ed.) (Hilversum 2018) 134-139.
‘Plus nog een fragment van De Natuurkunde van het Geheelal’, in:
Perkament in stukken, 178-179.
‘Middeleeuwse sporen van Utrechtse pelgrims naar Santiago’,
Tijdschrift Oud-Utrecht 84 (2011) 104-108.
‘Tussen stadstaten en signori : Baldus de Ubaldis, jurist van formaat in veertiende-eeuws Italië’,
Madoc 16/3 (2002) 141-149;
online, DBNL.
Santiago en Utrecht. Uit de geschiedenis van het Utrechtse Jacobsgasthuis en de beide Jacobsbroederschappen (Utrecht 2002).
‘Argumentation in practice : Nicolaus Everardi (1462-1532) on canon law and custom in the Low Countries’, in:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996, K. Pennington, S. Chodorow and K.H. Kendall (eds.) (Città del Vaticano 2001) 635-650.
‘Bibliography of Stephan Kuttner (1907-1996)’ and
‘Bibliographie von Stephan Kuttner (1907-1996)’ – the publications of the founder of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law.
‘Vita brevis, opera multa: Ludovicus Pontanus de Roma (1409-1439), a prolific writer’, in: Verein Junger Zürcher RechtshistorikerInnen,
¿Rechtsgeschichte(n)? ¿Histoire(s) du droit? ¿Storia/storie del diritto? ¿Legal Histori(es)?, [M. Luminati et alii (eds.)] (Frankfurt am Main, etc., 2000) 165-175.
‘Van stof tot gewaad. Adviezen over kleding van Adriaan Boeyens en Nicolaas Everaerts’,
Madoc 12/4 (1998) 257-262 –
online, DBNL
Studies over Nicolaas Everaerts (1462-1532) en zijn Topica (dissertation Rotterdam; Arnhem 1994).
‘Werken op zondag? Middeleeuwse juristen en werkverslaving’,
Madoc 8/3 (1994) 159-163 –
online Digitale Bibliotheek der Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL).
‘Waar stad en platteland elkaar ontmoeten. Tolsteeg, een Utrechts buitengerecht in de vijftiende eeuw’,
Jaarboek Oud-Utrecht 1990, 39-57.
Projects
At the Regionaal Archief Zuid-Utrecht I helped with my palaeographical expertise, and I focused in particular on collections stemming from private persons and institutions. In 2020 and 2021 I worked as a project archivist at
Special Collections, Utrecht University Library, for the description and inventory of charters and charter fragments, both in some family archives and in bindings of manuscripts and early printed editions. I also made new descriptions for some very summarily described small family archives.
Since 2009 I post contributions about legal history regularly at my blog
Rechtsgeschiedenis,
http://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com. This blog is the companion of my legal history website
Rechtshistorie,
https://www.rechtshistorie.nl (Dutch and English), with among other things my own web repertory for
Digital Humanities and an overview of
digitized collections with pamphlets, broadsides, broadside ballads, chapbooks and festival books..
My blog
Glossae. Middeleeuwse juridische glossen in beeld,
https://glossae.hypotheses.org, focuses since 2013 on pre-accursian legal glosses and medieval manuscript fragments. You can find here an overview of
digitization projects and catalogues for medieval fragments.
At
Digital 1418 you can find concise descriptions of digital projects about the First World War.
