Prof. Eddy Put

Coordinator

Prof. Eddy Put

Coordinator

Eddy Put, acting director of the Flemish State Archives, head of the Digitisation and Digital Valorisation service and part time professor archival science at the KU Leuven, is coordinator of the project. His main research interests include early modern religious and institutional history, archival arrangement and description as well as the history of early modern record production.

Prof. Xavier Rousseaux

Partner

Prof. Xavier Rousseaux

Partner

Xavier Rousseaux is research director of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the Centre for the History of Law and Justice (CHDJ) at Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels and Luxembourg. A specialist in the history of crime and justice in the long term in the West, he leads several research projects and an international network on the history of Belgian justice (1795-2015). He is a founding member of the journal Crime, histoire et sociétés and is a main partner in the PARDONS-project.

Prof. Hans Cools

Partner

Prof. Hans Cools

Partner

Hans Cools earned his PhD at University of Amsterdam, in 2000, with a prosopographical study on the involvement of late fifteenth and early sixteenth century noblemen in the process of state formation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University (NL) and as director of studies in medieval and early modern history at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. Since 2006, Hans lectures at KU Leuven, currently as an associate professor. Moreover, between 2015 and 2017, he served at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden (NL) as a senior researcher and as a member of its management team. Hans Cools has a strong research interest in the political, social and cultural history of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, France and Italy. Thereby he focuses on three related themes: political culture, cultural brokerage and the creation of public memory in those communities. Furthermore, Hans serves on the board of the Dutch Association for Italian Studies (WIS) and the Flemish-Dutch Association for Early Modern History (VNVNG). He is also an editor of HISToriant, the yearbook of Antwerp History. He currently is one of the main partner of the PARDONS-project.

Prof. Violet Soen

Partner

Prof. Violet Soen

Partner

Prof. dr. Violet Soen lectures Early Modern History at the University of Leuven. She takes a special interest in religious and political history of the Spanish Monarchy, the Low Countries and France. Nowadays, she is investigating aristocratic networks in the borderlands between the Low Countries and France in the Wars of Religion. Violet Soen is member of the editorial board of the Revue d'Histoire ecclésiastique. The Louvain Journal for Church History, and serves on the board of different (inter)national professional organisations, and she is member of the Young Academy of Belgium. Violet Soen conducts and coordinates research into early modern transregional history, in order to map the movement of persons and ideas across, along, and beyond political borders in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Her group studies transregional history from different perspectives, focusing on religious and cultural history (print culture in the archdiocese of Cambrai), political history (the making of boundaries in the Eighty Years War) and social history (noble strategies and transregional marriages in and around the Spanish Empire and France. She is currently one of the main partner of the PARDONS-project.

Dr. Gert Gielis

Digitization & Crowdsourcing

Dr. Gert Gielis

Digitization & Crowdsourcing

Dr. Gert Gielis is a historian of the early modern era with wide-ranging interests but a particular predilection for the XVIth century Low Countries. His research focused on the histories of religious repression, such as inquisition and censorship, demonstrating the importance of grace and reconciliation in the early modern era. Since childhood, Gert has had a great fondness for stories and storytelling in all their variations. Unsurprisingly, Gert is a book lover who prefers to be near books and archives. As a great supporter of citizen science and an expert in volunteer management Gert is keen to explore the opportunities of doing historical research with a group of history buffs.

Dr. Quentin Verreycken

Scientific Coordinator

Dr. Quentin Verreycken

Scientific Coordinator

Quentin Verreycken is a Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLouvain and a Visiting Lecturer at Saint-Louis University, Brussels. A historian of criminal justice, he has worked extensively on the history of pardon and violence regulation in late medieval France, England, and the Low Countries, with a special interest for the crimes committed by soldiers. His current research explores the role of petitions and political communication in wartime. Quentin serves as the scientific coordinator for the PARDONS project, bringing his own experience in investigating pardon letters to the research team.

Hendrik Vandeginste

Consultant

Hendrik Vandeginste

Consultant

Hendrik is a consultant with Histories vzw. Histories vzw puts the many thousands of heritage volunteers in Flanders and Brussels at the center of its operations. We use this inclusive term for everyone who, of their own accord - out of passion - does heritage work in their spare time. Within Pardons, Hendrik focuses on increasing the role of volunteers and the possibility of including this resource in volunteers' own research.

Dr. Luke Giraudet

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Luke Giraudet

Postdoctoral Researcher

Luke Giraudet is a postdoctoral researcher based at UCLouvain, having previously lectured in late-medieval history at the University of York, where he obtained his PhD in 2020. A historian focusing on public opinion, political history and urban historiography, particularly during the political contests between the French, English and Burgundian polities during the fifteenth century, Luke is bringing his specialist interests in narrative and discourse to the PARDONS project in the assessment of remission tales and attitudes to crime throughout the early modern period.

PhD Gabrielle Bertrand

Doctoral Researcher

PhD Gabrielle Bertrand

Doctoral Researcher

Gabrielle Bertrand obtained her Master’s degree in Early Modern History at KU Leuven in 2021 with a dissertation dedicated to the notion of Catholic orthodoxy within and beyond Leuven’s sixteenth-century university through the specific works, initiatives and responsibilities of its theology professor Josse Ravesteyn, also known as Judocus Tiletanus.

R.A. Vincent Mazy

Digital Historian & Web Designer

R.A. Vincent Mazy

Digital Historian & Web Designer

Vincent Mazy is a recent graduate in Contemporary History at the Université catholique de Louvain. He's in charge of the digital services and assets of the Pardons website & blog. His mission is to ensure ongoing support in the publication and valorization of scientific work and pardon letters (both documents and transcription) on the website.

Our volunteers

None of this work would have been possible without the help of the volunteers that came through and transcribed letters of grace !
They are fully part of this project and, therefore, of our team.

Anne-Marie Van Basselaere
Annick Decoster
Anton Schuttelaars
Astrid Vos
Claude Verset
Claudia Crivisqui
Els Lenaerts
Georges Wemans
Ghislaine Vanderick
Guido Demuynck
Hendrik Vandeginste
Jef Willemsens
Jip Verheyen
Jozef Neefs
Jurgen Vandebotermet
Libert Loosen
Maxime Renard
Nicolas Denutte
Paleografiewerkgroep Duffel
Philippe Cornut
Philippe Vanrysselberghe
Renaud Gahide
Rita Malfliet
Robert Mijnendonckx
Roger Vermeulen
Ruben Bal
Toon Van Eemeren
Walter De Smet
Yveline Parfait

The Team

Prof. Eddy Put

Prof. Xavier Rousseaux

Prof. Hans Cools

Prof. Violet Soen

Dr. Gert Gielis

Dr. Quentin Verreycken

Hendrik Vandeginste

Dr. Luke Giraudet

PhD Gabrielle Bertrand

R.A. Vincent Mazy

Our volunteers

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