PhD student (Vienna)
B.A., M.A. (Utrecht)

From 2011 onwards I studied History (BA) and Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (MA) at Utrecht University. My PhD thesis, written as part of the After Empire project, traced the changing notions and politics of urban group belonging in northwest Europe from c. 850 to c. 1050. Focusing on the portrayal of townspeople in diocesan historiography, its main argument is that ‘belonging to the town’ acquired newfound political salience over the course of the tenth century.

As of November 2019, I am based at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen‑Nürnberg.

Contact details

jelle.wassenaar@fau.de
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