Biography
Maarten Van Dijck (1980) is associate professor in history and theory of the social sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His teaching concerns the theories and methodologies used in historical and social research. Maarten is specialised in urban history from long-term perspective. His PhD research dealt with the complex relation between criminalization, urbanization and behavior changes in the urban societies of the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period. This thesis claims that urban growth in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries caused the decline of interpersonal violence in Europe. Homcide rates tend to be lower in larger cities, especially after 1500. He also studied the evolution of democracy, civil societies and public spheres in the Low Countries during the late medieval and the early modern period. A third research line deals with the unequal distribution of social resources in the Low Countries during the early modern period.
Maarten's research makes use of concepts from the social sciences to understand long-term historical developments such as the rise of democratic societies. Methodologically, he makes use of digital humanities techniques in his research such as GIS and Social Network Analysis.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- vandijck@eshcc.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Maarten van Dijck (2023) - "Changez vos Feuilles, Gardez Vos Racines": A Personal Vision on History Education at the Erasmus University - Erasmus Student Journal of History Studies (History Collective), 1, 96-101 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2020) - Violent classes? Interpersonal violence and social inequality in Mechelen, 1350-1700 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2019) - Antwerpen is het stad en de rest is parking - Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 132, 319-321 - doi: 10.5117/TVGESCH2019.2.008.BESP - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2018) - Rotterdam and the beginnings of global trade in the early modern period - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2017) - Democracy and Civil Society in the Early Modern Period: The Rise of Three Types of Civil Societies in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic - Social Science History, 41 (1), 59-81 - doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.38 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck, B De Munck & N Terpstra (2017) - Relocating Civil Society: Theories and Practices of Civil Society between Late Medieval and Modern Society - Social Science History, 41 (1), 1-17 - doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.35 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2015) - Measuring different forms of social capital in early modern Dutch towns. A comparison of Leiden and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century
- Maarten van Dijck (2015) - From sub to counterculture. The criminalization of youth culture in the Low Countries, 1400-1800
- Maarten van Dijck, A Van Hiel & E Raspoet (2015) - Monkey see, monkey do: de vele oorzaken van agressie - Knack, 114-118
- Maarten van Dijck, M Auwers, I Bertels, Jeanette Kamp & S Muurling (2015) - De stad in de schijnwerpers. Stadsgeschiedenis in Belgische en Nederlandse historische tijdschriften (2013) - Stadsgeschiedenis, 10 (1), 96-110 - [link]
- Maarten Dijck & Jeroen Euwe (2019) - The Wine Business in Rotterdam, 1600-1900
- Maarten Dijck (2018) - Dutch port cities in the early modern period: local responses to global challenges
- Maarten Dijck (2018) - Women in business in New Amsterdam and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century
- Maarten Dijck (2017) - Economic networks in the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic. Social capital in early modern New Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- Maarten Dijck (2016) - Gendered networks in early modern Dutch harbor towns. A comparison of Cape Town, New Amsterdam and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century
- Maarten Dijck (2015) - Social Capital and Economic Development in Cape Town and New Amsterdam (c. 1640-1680)
- Maarten Dijck (2014) - Settler strategies. Social networks in New Amsterdam and Cape Town in the second half of the seventeenth century
- Maarten Dijck (2014) - Sociale verhoudingen in de Spaanse Nederlanden en de Republiek. Sociale ongelijkheid, sociaal kapitaal en sociale cohesie in zeventiende-eeuws Mechelen en Leiden
- Maarten Dijck (2014) - Stadsgeschiedenis (Journal)
- Maarten Dijck (2013) - Stadsgeschiedenis (Journal)
Rise of the Global City
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH4215
Sustainable Development in Hist. Persp.
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH4022
Heuristic Skills and Sources
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH1104
Honours Class
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH2100