Rombert Stapel

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About

Rombert Stapel (1983) studied Medieval History at Leiden University. He graduated in 2008 on a prosopographical study of the priest-brethren of the Teutonic Order in the Utrecht bailiwick (1350-1600). He then started working on a PhD dissertation at Leiden University and the Fryske Akademy (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) concerning a late fifteenth-century Middle Dutch chronicle of the Teutonic Order, the Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden or Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik. This text became an influential text in the Baltic region and beyond in the sixteenth century. He defended his thesis, cum laude, in 2017.

He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the IISH on themes related to the socioeconomic history of the medieval and early-modern Low Countries and spatial humanities. Amongst others, he contributes to the projects Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500-2000 and The Historical Dynamics of Industrialization in Northwestern Europe and China, 1800-2000.

Starting in September 2020 he is leading the NWO-funded project '(Re)counting the uncounted. Replication and Contextualisation of Premodern Dutch and Belgian Population Estimates (1350-1800)'.

Research interests

Rombert Stapel's current research interests include labour relations in various parts of the world (including the history of self-employment), medieval and early modern coin production, and the circulation of knowledge, goods, and people in the world. He is particularly interested in the spatial humanities: one project aims to create linked open data gazetteers of historical place names, and the other is an historical GIS atlas of late medieval and early modern administrative-judicial units in the Low Countries (cities and heerlijkheden). This projects brings together information from hearth taxes and historical cartography. Its aim is to replace or at least update the Geschiedkundige Atlas van Nederland by A.A. Beekman.

Education/Academic qualification

Medieval History, PhD, Universiteit Leiden

01 Feb 2008 → 25 Jan 2017

Award Date: 25 Jan 2017

Medieval History, MA, Universiteit Leiden

01 Sep 2001 → 25 Jan 2008

Award Date: 25 Jan 2008

External positions

Harvard University

01 Aug 2015 → 31 Dec 2015

Universiteit Leiden

01 Jan 2015 → 30 Jun 2015

Universiteit Leiden

01 Jan 2013 → 30 Jun 2013

Universiteit Leiden

01 Jan 2012 → 30 Jun 2012

Universiteit Leiden

01 Jan 2011 → 30 Jun 2011

Universiteit Leiden

01 Jan 2010 → 30 Jun 2010

PhD candidate, Universiteit Leiden

01 Feb 2008 → 11 Nov 2012

Keywords

DH Netherlands (The Low Countries)
Medieval History
Spatial Humanities (GIS)
Labour History
Monasticism
Military Orders
Historical Demography
C Auxiliary sciences of history (General)
Digital Humanities
Spatial Humanities (GIS)
P Philology. Linguistics
Stylometry
Philology
Authorship
Historical Writing
Chronicles
DJK Eastern Europe
Military Orders
Teutonic Order
G Geography (General)
Historical GIS
Historical Geography
HC Economic History and Conditions
ZA4450 Databases
Historical Gazetteers
Coin Production
CJ Numismatics
Coin Production
Monetization
Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
Paleography
Codicology

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Research Output

6 Chapter
5 Article
3 Contribution to conference proceedings
3 Poster
9 More

The Late Fifteenth-Century Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order: Manuscripts, Sources, and Authorship

Stapel, R. J., 25 Jan 2017, Leiden University Press. 463 p.

Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD thesis

Open Access

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Coin Production in the Low Countries: Fourteenth Century to the Present

Zuijderduijn, J., Stapel, R. J. & Lucassen, J. M. W. G., Dec 2018, In : Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. 15, 2/3, p. 69-88

Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

Leydis, Pauli, and Berchen revisited. Collective history writing in the Low Countries in the late fifteenth century

Stapel, R. J. & De Vries, J. D. E., May 2015, In : The Medieval Low Countries. An Annual Review. 1 (2014), p. 95-137

Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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Layer on layer. 'Computational archaeology' in 15th-century Middle Dutch historiography

Stapel, R. J., 20 May 2013, In : LLC: the journal of digital scholarship in the humanities. 28, 2, p. 344-358

Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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`Onder dese ridderen zijn oec papen'. De priesterbroeders in de balije Utrecht van de Duitse Orde (1350-1600)

Stapel, R. J., 2009, In : Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis. 11 (2008), p. 205-248 44 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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Prizes

ADHO Bursary Award 2011

Stapel, Rombert (Recipient), 22 Jun 2011

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards) › Academic

Historische Kommission für ost- und westpreußische Landesforschung

Stapel, Rombert (Recipient), 30 Jul 2017

Prize: Election to learned society

Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde

Stapel, Rombert (Recipient), 29 May 2017

Prize: Election to learned society

Activities

42 Talk or presentation
4 Teaching activity
3 Workshop, seminar
1 Editorial activity

Shifting demographic centres of gravity. People and landscape in urban and rural Brabant and its surroundings (14th-16th centuries)

Rombert Stapel (Invited speaker)

18 Jan 2019

Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic

Debates in Global Economic and Social History

Rombert Stapel (Examiner), & Pepijn Brandon (Examiner)

01 Sep 2019 → 31 Jan 2020

Activity: Teaching/Examination/Supervision › Teaching activity › Academic

Mapmakers and Uncertainty. (Early) Modern Discussions

Djoeke van Netten (Speaker), , Chet van Duzer (Invited speaker), , Isabel Casteels (Invited speaker), , Thomas Horst (Invited speaker), , Erling Sandmo (Invited speaker), , Martijn Storms (Invited speaker), , Weixuan Li (Invited speaker), , Edward Mac Gillavry (Invited speaker), , Rombert Stapel (Invited speaker), & Marlies Vermeulen (Invited speaker)

17 Jul 2019

Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic