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Griet Vermeesch

Griet Vermeesch obtained a Master in History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2001. In September 2006, she successfully defended her Ph.D. titled Oorlog, steden en staatsvorming. De grenssteden Gorinchem en Doesburg tijdens de geboorte-eeuw van de Republiek (ca. 1570-1680) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 2007, it received the Award Professor van Winter for best book on local history of the Netherlands. Since then, she has been working at Leiden University and – since September 2007 – at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on early modern urban history of the Low Countries. She has examined several aspects of regulation such as city-state relations, petitionary politics and the performance of urban administrations. Currently, she works as a researcher at the research group HOST and as a postdoctoral fellow of the FWO on the project 'Access to justice. Urban legal procedures and the usage of the pro bono procedure in civil adjudication in the Low Countries, 16th to 18th century’.

Core publications
  • Griet Vermeesch, 'Professional lobbying in eighteenth-century Brussels: the role of agents in petitioning the central government institutions in the Habsburg Netherlands', Journal of Early Modern History 16 (2012) 95-119.
  • Griet Vermeesch, 'De Haas en de Schildpad. Stad en staat in pre-industrieel Europa', Stadsgeschiedenis 5 (2010) 56-71.
  • Griet Vermeesch, 'War and garrison towns in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg (c.1570-c. 1660)', Urban History 36 (2009) 3-23.
  • Griet Vermeesch, Oorlog, steden en staatsvorming. De grenssteden Gorinchem en Doesburg tijdens de geboorte-eeuw van de Republiek (1572-1680) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006).
Topics for Bachelor's paper
  • Political and institutional history of the early modern period
  • Military history of the early modern period
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