Hans Cools (born 1969) is a historian of early-modern Europe. He is a professor at the

KU Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

and a senior research fellow of the

Fryske Akademy The Fryske Akademy ( Frisian for ''Frisian Academy''), founded in 1938, is the scientific centre for research and education concerning Friesland (''Fryslân'' in West Frisian) and its people, language and culture, this in its broadest sense. Th ...

Career

Cools studied history and philosophy at the universities of

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and

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. He was a researcher at the

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in Florence and completed his doctorate at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. His thesis, on the nobility in the Burgundian and

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, was supervised by Henk van Nierop and

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. It charted the networks of patronage and fealty that tied the nobility to the crown. Cools briefly worked at

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(1999-2003) and the

Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (Dutch: Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome), founded in 1904 as Nederlands Historisch Instituut te Rome, is a Dutch centre for studies in the Humanities based in Rome. It was awarded the title "Royal" by Qu ...

(2003-2006) before taking up a position as a lecturer at the KU Leuven. Together with Steven Gunn and

David Grummitt David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, he has studied war as a factor in the formation of political identities in England and the Low Countries in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In March 2015 he was interviewed on VRT

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about the 16th-century

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in the Low Countries, to provide perspective on the

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then in the news.

Publications

;Monographs * Hans Cools, ''Mannen met macht. Edellieden en de Moderne Staat in de Bourgondisch-Habsburgse Landen. ca. 1475 – ca. 1530'' (Zutphen, 2001; reprinted 2015) * Hans Cools and Hans de Valk, ''Institutum Neerlandicum. MCMIV-MMIV. Honderd jaar Nederlands Instituut te Rome'' (Hilversum, 2004) * Steven Gunn, David Grummitt and Hans Cools, ''War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559'' (Oxford, 2007) ;Edited volumes *''Your Humble Servant: Agents in Early Modern Europe'', edited by Hans Cools, Marika Keblusek and Badeloch Noldus (Hilversum, 2006) .Reviewed by Peter Burke in ''

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'', Vol. 123, No. 501 (2008), pp. 455-457. *''Fiandre e Italia tra monarchia universale e Stati territoriali: cultura politica e dinamiche sociali'', edited by Bruno Boute, Hans Cools and Maria Antonietta Visceglia (Rome, 2010) *''Adrian VI: A Dutch Pope in a Roman Context'', edited by Hans Cools,

Catrien Santing Catharina Geertruida Santing (born 1958), commonly going by Catrien Santing is a Dutch medievalist. Her research focuses on cultural history and medical history in the late-medieval and early-modern Low Countries. Career Santing studied History ...

and Hans de Valk (Turnhout, 2012) *''Het gelijk van de Gouden Eeuw. Recht en onrecht in de Republiek (1550-1750). Essays voor Henk van Nierop'', edited by Michiel van Groesen, Judith Pollmann and Hans Cools (Hilversum, 2014) *''Fryske Akademy, three centuries of building history'', edited by Hans Cools (Leeuwarden, 2016) . *''Erasmus en de Friezen, Friezen en Erasmus'', edited by J. Bloemendal and H. Cools (Leeuwarden, 2016) ;Chapters and articles * Hans Cools, "An Italian in the Metropolis: The Amsterdam Career of Francesco Feroni (ca. 1640-1672)", in D. Vanysacker et al. eds., ''The Quintessence of Lives: Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries presented to Jan Roegiers'' (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 227-247.

References

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