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Prof. Dr. Wim Blockmans
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Wim Blockmans, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1945. Ph.D. from the University of Ghent (1973). Professor of Social History at Erasmus University Rotterdam 1975-1987. Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University since 1987. Rector of NIAS since September 2002.
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Scientific Memberships and Functions
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The British Academy |
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The Royal Historical Society |
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Academia Europaea |
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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België) |
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verfassungsgeschichte |
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Hollandsche Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen |
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Member of the editorial board of The Journal for Medieval History (1987-), Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (1987-93), Beleid en Maatschappij (1993-96), Namens (1987-90). |
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Editor-in-chief of the twelve-volume series 'The Roots of Western Civilization', published in 1992-94 in Dutch, English and Finnish, with compact editions in French and Dutch, and of the seven-volume series Origins of the Modern State, published by Oxford UP and Presses Universitaires de France in 1995-1999. |
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Current (Inter)national Academic Functions
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President, Comitato Scientifico, Istituto di Storia Economica Francesco Datini, Prato, Italy |
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Chair, Panel SH6 of ERC: The Study of the Human Past |
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Fachkommission der Excellenzinitiative, DFG, Germany |
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Advisory Board for Science and Technology Policy, AWT, The Netherlands |
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Gutachtergruppe Geisteswissenschaftliche Kollegs, Bundesministerium Bildung und Forschung, Germany |
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Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Münster, Germany |
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Programme Committee, EuroScience Open Forum |
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Previous Academic Functions
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External Advisory Committee to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, International University of Bremen, 2000-2005 |
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External Advisory Panel, History Faculty, Oxford, 2000-2005 |
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Vice-President of the Board of the Foundation Praemium Erasmianum, 1996-2006 |
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Chair of the Council for the Humanities, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 2004-2006 |
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Chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel for the European Young Investigators Awards, 2004-2005 |
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Council for the Humanities, NWO, 1982-1987 |
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Evaluation panels: Universities of Paris I and IV, Swiss Universities, Salzburg, Bologna, Oxford; Irish Research Council for Humanities; Europaeum. |
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Scientific Boards of Exhibitions: Carolus (Gent, Bonn, Vienna, Toledo 2000), Bruges à Beaune (Beaune 2001), A la Busqueda del Toison de Oro (Valencia 2007), Europalia (Brussels 2007). |
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Awards
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Laureate, Fondation universitaire, Brussels, 1968 |
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Laureate, Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, 1973 |
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Laureate, Research Travel Scheme of the Belgian Government, 1975 |
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Winkler Prins Prize, 1980 |
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Ad Fontes Award, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1984 |
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Commander in the Order of Leopold II, 2000 |
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Arenberg Prize for General History, 2002 |
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Major publications
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Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1550, London/New York 2007, 372 pp.: Revised translation of: Eeuwen des Onderscheids. Geschiedenis van de Europese middeleeuwen, Amsterdam 2002 (in coll. with P. Hoppenbrouwers), 476 pp. (third print 2007) |
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The World of Emperor Charles V, eds. W. Blockmans and N. Mout, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, 2004, 364 pp. |
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Keizer Karel V 1500-1558. De utopie van het keizerschap, Leuven-Amsterdam 2000, reprint 2001, 286 pp. Spanish translation: Carlos V. La utopía del imperio, Madrid 2000, 243 pp. English translation: Emperor Charles V 1500-1558, London 2002, 210 pp. |
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A History of Power in Europe. Peoples, Markets, States, Antwerp, Brussels, New York, Frankfurt 1997, 1998 (also in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, Preface by Jacques Santer, Epilogue by Marcelino Oreja Aguirre), 402 pp. [Published on the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome]. |
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The Promised Lands. The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530 (with W. Prevenier). Philadelphia 1999, 285 pp. Orig. Dutch In de Ban van Bourgondië, Houten 1988, second, extended Dutch edition De Bourgondiërs, Amsterdam 1997, 288 pp., reprint 2000. |
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The Burgundian Netherlands (in coll. with W. Prevenier) Antwerp & Cambridge 1986 (orig. Dutch and French, Antwerp & Paris 1983, German: Weinheim 1987), 405 pp. |
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Showing Status. Representation of Social Positions in the Late Medieval Low Countries, eds. W. Blockmans & A. Janse, Turnhout: Brepols 1999, 2005 X+481 pp. |
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Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Century, 7 vols., general eds. W. Blockmans & J.-Ph. Genet, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1995-99; in French at Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1996-99, one vol. in Spanish at Fondo de Cultura Economica, Madrid, 1997. |
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Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000-1800, eds. W.P. Blockmans & Ch. Tilly, Boulder: Westview, 1994, 290 pp. |
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De volksvertegenwoordiging in Vlaanderen (1384-1506) [Popular representation in Flanders], Brussels 1978, 671 pp. |
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Karel V
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A History of Power in Europe
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Geschichte der Macht
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Karel V und seine Zeit
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Les Pays-Bas Bourguinons
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De Bourgondiërs
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Eeuwen des onderscheids
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The World of Emperor Charles V
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Showing Status
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Carlos V
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Keizer Karel V
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Emperor Charles V
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The Promised Lands
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Seats of Power
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Guest Lectures in Morocco mai 2005
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Middeleeuwse vendetta
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Volkvertegenwoordiging in Vlaanderen
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Introduction toMedieval Europe 300-1550
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Plaatsen van herinnering
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