Dr. H.M.E.P. (Erika) Kuijpers

Function:
  • Lecturer Dutch History
  • Post-doc
Expertise:
  • Social history of the Low Countries 1300 -1800, themes: migration, labour, social inequality, religious institutions
Spreekuur/Hours
Op afspraak / by appointment
Fields of interest
Social inequality, migration and labour, everyday life, and religiosity in the early modern period. At Leiden University Het focus will be on memory practices during and after the Dutch Revolt, especially the exchange between, or mutual influence of personal and public memory.
Curriculum vitae
Erika Kuijpers studied social and economic history at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Utrecht in 2005 for a dissertation on migrants and social relations in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, for which she was awarded the Keetje Hodshonprijs in 2007. From 2004-2008 she worked in Utrecht as a post-doc researcher into labour markets and labour relations in Holland before 1600 (see: http://vkc.library.uu.nl/vkc/seh/research/Lists/Projects/DispForm.aspx?ID=8 ).
Selected publications
‘Deutsche Bäckergesellen in Amsterdam im 17. Jahrhundert’ In: Klaus J, Bade, Leo Lucassen, Pieter C. Emmer und Jochen Oltmer (Hg.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, (Paderborn, Okt. 2007) 463-465

With Lotte van de Pol: ‘Poor women’s migration to the city. The attraction of the Amsterdam health care and social assistance in early modern times’, Journal of Urban History 32:1 (November 2005) 44-60

Migrantenstad. Immigratie en sociale verhoudingen in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam (Hilversum 2005)
(Online te raadplegen via Google Books)

‘Poor, illiterate and superstitious? Social and cultural characteristics of the ‘Noordse Natie’, in the Amsterdam lutheran church in the seventeenth century’, in: L. Sicking, H. de Bles en E. des Bouvries (eds.), Dutch light in the “Norwegian Night”. Maritime relations and migration across the North Sea in early modern times (Hilversum 2004) 57-67

With Maarten Prak, ‘Gevestigden en buitenstaanders’ in: W. Frijhoff en M. Prak (red.), Geschiedenis van Amsterdam. Deel II-1: Centrum van de Wereld, 1578-1650 (Amsterdam 2004)  189-239

‘Een zeventiende-eeuwse migrantenkerk. De lutheranen in Amsterdam’, in: Leo Lucassen (red.), Amsterdammer worden. Migranten, hun organisaties en inburgering, 1600-2000 (Amsterdam 2004) 39-59

With Maarten Prak: ‘Burger, ingezetene, vreemdeling. Burgerschap in Amsterdam in de 17e en 18e eeuw’, in: J. Kloek en K. Tilmans (eds.), Burger. Een geschiedenis van het begrip in de Nederlanden van de Middeleeuwen tot de 21e eeuw (Amsterdam 2002)

‘Lezen en schrijven. Onderzoek naar het alfabetiseringsniveau in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 23:4 (1997), 490-522
Work in progress I
From September 2008, I am participating as a post doc researcher in the VICI project directed by Prof.dr. Judith Pollmann: ‘Tales of the Revolt. Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries 1566-1700’. Working title of the sub project is: ‘The Practice of Memory. Narrating the Revolt’. For more information, see www.talesoftherevolt.leidenuniv.nl.
Work in progress II
In 2008 I will complete a project on the development of the Holland labour market, 1300–1600. Results will be published in three articles. The labour market of pre-industrial Holland was characterized by an exceptionally high proportion of wage labour, high mobility and flexibility. Unfree or bound labour did not exist. These characteristics were exceptional in European perspective and might partially explain the Dutch Golden Age. Despite this, we know little about how the ‘modern’ Holland labour market arose, of which we suspect the origins in the late Middle Ages.

This research tries to describe the origins and development of the Holland labour market in the period 1300–1600. It not only tries to chart the rise of wage labour, but also the characteristics of the labour market and labour relations. Important questions are: did institutions and government regulation contribute to the early rise of a market for wage labour in Holland? And: to what extent did labour relations in Holland differ with those found in surrounding areas.

This research is part of the research project led by Bas van Bavel and Jan Luiten van Zanden, named “Power, Markets and Economic Development: The Rise, Organization and Institutional Framework of Markets in Holland 11th-16th centuries”. (Utrecht University, financed by NWO and commenced in 2002). (see: http://vkc.library.uu.nl/vkc/seh/research/Lists/Projects/DispForm.aspx?ID=8 ).