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Bram Hilkens

@bramhilkens.bsky.social

Economic history - Preindustrial inequality - Early modern Holland - Unrelated near-dangerous music obsession

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Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · last mo.

Als je ooit wilde weten hoe je van Kendrick Lamar bij Hollands zeventiende eeuw terechtkomt, dan komt dit profiel van mij in NRC misschien goed van pas. Zaterdag in de krant, nu al online. Veel dank @vanderkris.bsky.social, voor het leuke gesprek!

Tijdens de welvaartsexplosie van de 17de eeuw kochten steeds meer mensen een lapje grond

Economische groei leidt tot ongelijkheid, is de heersende gedachte. Hoe zat dat in de 17de eeuw, toen Nederland een lange periode van bloei meemaakte?

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Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This was a super entertaining keynote. Elites don’t like to see themselves as elites—they perform normality. Elites are unhappy with their influence, which begs the question whether this influence has indeed waned relative to the past and what they feel entitled to.

Economic History Society@echistsoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Plenary Lectures from the EHS annual conferences as far back as 2017 are available on the EHS website and YouTube channel. From the 2026 Conference: Professor Aaron Reeves, 'Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite'. #EHS100

Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last Friday, I defended my thesis on land inequality in early modern Holland. I much enjoyed our discussion on urban elites, rural wealth portfolios, and our broader contemporary understanding of inequality as a social issue--if that doesn't make one feel like a doctor, I don't know what will!

Me, my paranymphs Timo Houtekamer and Alessandra Schimmel all dressed in tailcoat posing on the stair at the Erasmusgebouw with the committee, my supervisors Daniel Curtis, Paul van de Laar and Angelique Janssens, and the beadle. I am holding a cylinder with my diploma very proudly.
Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · last yr.

Our special issue of the History of the Family is out! Recent literature has stressed the various long-term impacts (or lack thereof) of epidemics in history. While new work on this is still welcome, we suggest that the direct costs associated with epidemics deserve additional scholarly attention.

The History of the Family

Household Family and the Community Response to the Direct Costs of Epidemics. Volume 30, Issue 3 of The History of the Family

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Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · last yr.

Super interesting paper by @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social on urban-rural flight, population turnover, and wealth-holding after two eighteenth-century plague outbreaks in Transylvania! Part of our special issue on the direct costs of epidemic mortality, which should be out very soon.

Oana Sorescu-Iudean@oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally out, on the economic impact of plague on remaining households (wealth& income) in early 18thC Hermannstadt(Transylvania). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #econhist #skystorians

Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to share that my article on the redistributive effects of epidemic mortality is now published in The History of the Family! It adds to the literature on preindustrial inequality by investigating redistribution of land in the wake of the 1655-6 plague epidemic in Hazerswoude, Holland. (1/12)

Mortality, morcellation, and the market: the impact of epidemic disease mortality on land distribution in a seventeenth-century-Holland village

The current article aims to explain the distributional consequences of epidemic mortality by assessing the relationship between post-epidemic land redistribution and land market exchange for one vi...

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Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · last yr.

Vond Hollands 'Gouden Eeuw' plaats ondanks, of dankzij de Tachtigjarige Oorlog? Wie profiteerde daarvan? Wat voor gevolgen heeft dat voor ons begrip van economische ongelijkheid in het verleden? Zie mijn discussiestuk over Marjolein 't Harts Oorlog en ongelijkheid in @tseglowcountries.bsky.social.

Verschillende ongelijkheden? The new history of old inequality en Oorlog en ongelijkheid | TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economi...

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Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stef’s is the first paper out for our upcoming special issue on the short-term economic effects of epidemics—stay tuned!

Stef Espeel@stefespeel.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New publication alert🚨 My study on the short-term changes in purchasing power in the county of Flanders during the Black Death and two subsequent plague outbreaks is now out in The History of the Family. doi.org/10.1080/1081... #BlackDeath #plague #hunger #purchasingpower #medievalstudies 1/11 🧵

Bram Hilkens@bramhilkens.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to see this paper by Daniel Curtis and Bram van Besouw on lifecycle strategies of landholding finally out in the EHR! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land di...

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