Charlotte van Riet

I was awarded an FWO-fellowship, and will research the earliest city-dwellers in medieval Ypres. Specifically, I will try to find out what these people’s socio-economic background was and where they originated from. This will help understand how and why they created the first urban environments and how they experienced living within them. In order to answer these questions, I will integrate isotopic research on the skeletal remains of Ypres’ medieval inhabitants with information from historical sources and cartographic evidence. I am part of the research groups SHOC (Social History of Capitalism) and AMGC (Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry) at VUB.