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Rombert Stapel (1983) studied Medieval History at Leiden University. He graduated in 2008 with a prosopographical study of the priest-brethren of the Teutonic Order in the Utrecht bailiwick (1350-1600). In 2017 he defended his Ph.D. cum laude (with distinction) at Leiden University. This resulted in a monograph published in 2021 with Routledge: Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century. The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order and an edition and translation published in 2024 in the same series: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order. A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia (Edition and Translation). In 2013 he joined the IISH as a researcher in the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500-2000. In 2015 he was a Global Fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University, and between 2018-2019 he was also involved as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project The Historical Dynamics of Industrialisation in Northwestern Europe and China ca. 1800-2010: a Regional Interpretation at the IISH. He has been a Senior Researcher since 2023.
He is an elected member of the Internationale Historische Kommission zur Erforschung des Deutschen Ordens and Historische Kommission für ost- und westpreußische Landesforschung and a board member of the Contactgroep Signum.
Rombert Stapel’s research focuses on the interplay between demography, landscape and land use, and long-term economic development in the medieval and early modern Low Countries, as well as the labour and power relations that influenced this interplay. Other research interests include the production of historical gazetteers (in cooperation with the World Historical Gazetteer), monetary history (and its links to labour relations), crusade history, medieval historiography, and monastic history.
His recent work includes various research projects at the intersection of socio-economic history, digital humanities, and geohumanities and he is a strong advocate of open science. He has been working on the creation of a new historical GIS dataset for administrative-judicial boundaries at the local level in the medieval and early modern Low Countries: the Historical Atlas of the Low Countries, 1350-1800. This historical GIS plays a crucial role in reconstructing the population geography of the Low Countries (from the Somme to the Waddenzee) as part of the NWO-funded replication study (Re)counting the Uncounted. Replication and Contextualisation of Premodern Dutch and Belgian Population Estimates (1350-1800) for which he was the PI. Together with Rick Mourits (IISH) he was also PI of the project Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography (CLAIR-HD), funded by the NWO Open Science Fund.
Together with Thomas Vermaut (KNAW HuC / Digital Infrastructure), he currently also leads the HisGIS.nl project. HisGIS.nl provides a national digital infrastructure for research, policy development, and the creation and promotion of interest in the historic landscape and related built environment of the Netherlands. The project is based on the digitised and vectorised maps and tables of the oldest, so-called Napoleonic cadastre from around 1832, which was introduced in large parts of Europe following French instructions. In 2023, this project received substantial new funding from the Ministry of Education and the Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed.
Medieval History, PhD, The Late Fifteenth-Century Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order: Manuscripts, Sources, and Authorship, Universiteit Leiden
01 Feb 2008 → 25 Jan 2017
Award Date: 25 Jan 2017
Medieval History, MA, 'Among these knights are also priests'. A prosopographical study into the functioning of the priest-brethren of the Teutonic Order in the Utrecht bailiwick, 1350-1600, Universiteit Leiden
01 Sept 2001 → 25 Jan 2008
Award Date: 25 Jan 2008
VU University Amsterdam
01 Aug 2021 → 31 Dec 2021
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
Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly text edition
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Stapel, R. (PI) & Mourits, R. (Collaborator)
01/12/2021 → 30/09/2022
Project: Research
Stapel, R. (PI)
01/09/2020 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research
Stapel, R. (PI), Reynaert, M. (Collaborator), Petram, L. (Collaborator) & van Berchum, M. (Collaborator)
01/12/2017 → 01/12/2018
Project: Research
Zuijderduijn, J. (PI), Stapel, R. (Collaborator), Lucassen, J. (Collaborator) & Meijer, K. (Collaborator)
22/04/2016 → 30/11/2016
Project: Research
Stapel, R. (Recipient), 22 Jun 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards) › Academic
Stapel, R. (Recipient), 30 Jul 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Stapel, R. (Recipient), 28 Sept 2024
Prize: Election to learned society
Stapel, R. (Recipient), 29 May 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Stapel, R. (Examiner) & Odegard, E. (Examiner)
Activity: Teaching/Examination/Supervision › Teaching activity › Academic
Stapel, R. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
Stapel, R. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, seminar › Academic
Stapel, R. (Speaker) & Vermaut, T. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
Stapel, R. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
20/02/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
01/09/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Stapel, R. (Creator), IISH Dataverse, 14 Oct 2024
https://hdl.handle.net/10622/PGFYTM
Dataset
Stapel, R. (Creator), Flens, I. (Creator), Vaccari, D. (Creator) & Versmissen, R. (Creator), IISH Dataverse, 08 Apr 2023
https://hdl.handle.net/10622/E5BC1Y
Dataset
Stapel, R. (Creator), Flens, I. (Creator), Vaccari, D. (Creator) & Versmissen, R. (Creator), IISH Dataverse, 08 Apr 2023
https://hdl.handle.net/10622/4FWVNL
Dataset
Stapel, R. (Creator), Flens, I. (Creator), Vaccari, D. (Creator) & Versmissen, R. (Creator), IISH Dataverse, 16 Oct 2024
https://hdl.handle.net/10622/9ZTT0C
Dataset
Stapel, R. (Creator), Lucassen, J. M. W. G. (Contributor) & Zuijderduijn, J. (Contributor), DANS, IISH, 30 Dec 2016
DOI: 10.17026/dans-xev-46h7, https://datasets.socialhistory.org/dataverse/coinproduction
Dataset