Political Representation ― Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe C. 1200 - C. 1690

Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690) offers a wide consideration of the nature of representation in the political assemblies of pre-modern European, evaluating their creation, evolution, membership and ideological context.

Dr Mario Damen teaches medieval history at the University of Amsterdam. He is especially interested in the field of social, political and cultural history of the late medieval Low Countries and the princes, nobles and administrative elites of the Burgundian and Habsburg composite state. His publications include ‘The town, the duke, his courtiers and their tournament’, in The Splendour of Burgundy (1419-1482). An interdisciplinary approach (2013).Prof. dr. Jelle Haemers is Senior Lecturer at the KU Leuven. Apart from urban history his research interests encompass other kinds of social and political conflicts in the late medieval town, notably in the Low Countries (1100-1600). His second book For the Common Good. State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477-1482) (2009) was awarded with the prestigious Frans van Cauwelaert prize of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium.Dr Alastair Mann is Senior Lecturer at Stirling University, Scotland. He researches parliamentary history, the Restoration, and book history. He is co-editor of The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (2008-17) and the biography James VII: duke and king of Scots (2014).