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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 2015Universiteit Leiden
01 Jan 2015 → 30 Jun 2015Universiteit Leiden
01 Jan 2013 → 30 Jun 2013Universiteit Leiden
01 Jan 2012 → 30 Jun 2012Universiteit Leiden
01 Jan 2011 → 30 Jun 2011Universiteit Leiden
01 Jan 2010 → 30 Jun 2010PhD candidate, Universiteit Leiden
01 Feb 2008 → 11 Nov 2012Keywords
- DH Netherlands (The Low Countries)
- Medieval History
- Spatial Humanities (GIS)
- Labour History
- Monasticism
- Military Orders
- Historical Demography
- Population Geography
- 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
- Population Geography
- HC Economic History and Conditions
- ZA4450 Databases
- Historical Gazetteers
- Coin Production
- Population Geography
- CJ Numismatics
- Coin Production
- Monetization
- Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
- Paleography
- Codicology
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Research Output
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
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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. 69-88Research 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. 95-137Research 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. 344-358Research 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
Combining Text and Tables. Mixed Methods for Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Marieke van Erp (Speaker), , U. Bosma (Speaker), , A. Nerghes (Speaker), , Rombert Stapel (Speaker), & Richard L. Zijdeman (Speaker)
07 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
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
OpenGazAm. Digitalisation and Toponym Resolution for a Historical Gazetteer of the Early Modern Americas
Rombert Stapel (Speaker), , Ashkan Ashkpour (Speaker), & Martin Reynaert (Speaker)
25 Jul 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Academic
Datasets
Historical Atlas of the Low Countries (1350-1800)
Stapel, R. (Creator), 28 Aug 2019
https://hdl.handle.net/10622/PGFYTM
Dataset
Coin Production in the Low Countries (14th c. - present)
Stapel, R. (Creator), Lucassen, J. (Contributor) & Zuijderduijn, J. (Contributor), DANS, IISH, 30 Dec 2016
DOI: 10.17026/dans-xev-46h7, https://datasets.socialhistory.org/dataverse/coinproduction
Dataset