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Trained as an urban historian, prof. dr. Jelle Haemers wrote his first book on the Ghent revolt of 1499-53. In recent years his research interests have widened to encompass other kinds of social and political conflicts in the late medieval town, notably in the Low Countries (1100-1600). He also published on the use of social theory and auxiliary sciences in history, the late medieval nobility and the financial history of court and towns. He has just completed his second book, on the political conflict between the Flemish cities and Maximilian of Austria in the 1480s (For the Common Good. State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477-1482), which was awarded with the prestigious \\'Frans van Cauwelaert-price\\' of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium. He is a member of the recently founded Young Academy of Belgium.

His next major research project is a study of popular politics in the late medieval town. 

Main publications

HAEMERS, J., For the Common Good. State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477-1482 (Studies in European Urban History, 1100-1800), Turnhout, 2009.

HAEMERS, J. & LIDDY, C., \\'Popular politics in the late medieval city: York and Bruges\\', The English Historical Review, 128 (2013), 771-805.

DUMOLYN, J. & HAEMERS, J., ‘Patterns of Urban Rebellion in Medieval Flanders\\', Journal of Medieval History, 31 (2005), 369-393.

DUMOLYN, J. & HAEMERS, J., \\'\\'A Bad Chicken Was Brooding\\'. Subversive Speech in Late Medieval Flanders\\', Past and Present, 214 (2012), 45-86.

HAEMERS, J., WIJSMAN, H. & VAN HOOREBEECK, C. red., Entre la ville, la noblesse et l\\'Etat : Philippe de Clèves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile (Burgundica, 13), Turnhout, 2007.

HAEMERS, J., \\'Social Memory and Rebellion in Fifteenth-Century Ghent\\', Social History, 36 (2011), 443-463.