Bert De Munck
is senior lecturer at the History Department of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, teaching ‘Social and economic history of the early modern period’, ‘History and social theory’, and ‘Public history’. He is director of the Centre for Urban History at the same university and of the Scientific Research Community (WOG) ‘Urban Agency. Setting the research agenda of urban history’. While he has worked on apprenticeship, craft guilds, labour and social capital, his current research interests include vocational training and the circulation of technical knowledge, guilds and civil society, and the ‘repertoires of evaluation’ regarding skills and products.
A selected list of publications:
(In order to download full-text papers and articles, please go to the Academic Bibliography)
Books
- B. De Munck, Technologies of Learning. Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th century to the end of the ancien régime (Turnhout, 2007).
- B. De Munck, S.L. Kaplan and H. Soly (eds), Learning on the shop floor. Historical perspectives on apprenticeship (London/New York, 2007).
- B. De Munck & Anne Winter (eds), Gated communities? Regulating migration in early modern cities (Aldershot, 2011) (forthcoming).
Articles
- -- ‘
The agency of branding and the location of value. Trade marks and monograms in early modern tableware
industries’, Business History (2011) forthcoming.
- -- 'Guilds, product quality and intrinsic value. Towards a history of conventions?’, Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 36 (2011) 4, pp. 103-124, Special Issue, Rainer Diaz-Bone & Robert Salais (eds), Conventions and Institutions from a Historical Perspective / Konventionen und Institutionen in historischer Perspektive.- -- ‘Gilding golden ages. Perspectives from early modern Antwerp on the guild-debate, c. 1450- c. 1650’, European Review of Economic History (2011) pp. 221–253.http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A82XT3Vs - -- ‘Corpses, live models, and nature. Assessing skills and knowledge before the industrial revolution (case: Antwerp)’, Technology & Culture, 51 (2010) 2, pp. 332-356. - -- ‘One counter and your own account. Redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp’, Urban History, 37 (2010) 1, 26-44. - -- ‘From brotherhood community to civil society? Apprentices between guild, household and the freedom of contract in early modern Antwerp’, Social History, 35 (2010) 1, pp. 1-20. - -- ‘Skills, trust and changing consumer preferences. The decline of Antwerp’s craft guilds from the perspective of the product market, ca. 1500 – ca. 1800’, International Review of Social History, 53 (2008) 2, pp. 197-233. - -- ‘La qualité du corporatisme. Stratégies économiques et symboliques des corporations anversoises du XVe siècle à leur abolition’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 54 (2007) 1, pp. 116-144. - -- ‘The establishment and distribution of craft guilds in the Low Countries, 1000-1800’, in: C. Lis, J. Lucassen, M. Prak en H. Soly (eds.), Guilds in the early modern low countries. Work, power and representation (London, 2006), pp. 32-73 [with P. Lourens and J. Lucassen]. - -- ‘Humanisme op de werkvloer? Beroepsgerichte en algemeen vormende vaardigheden, van de late Middeleeuwen tot heden’, in: M. Depaepe, F. Simon and A. Van Gorp (eds.), Paradoxen van pedagogisering. Handboek pedagogische historiografie(Leuven, 2005), pp. 85-108. - -- ‘Free choice, modern love, and dependence: marriage of minors and Rapt de séduction in the Austrian Netherlands’, Journal of Family History, 29 (2004) 2, pp. 183-205. - -- ‘In loco parentis? De disciplinering van leerlingen onder het dak van Antwerpse ambachtsmeesters (1579-1680)’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en economische geschiedenis, 1 (2004) 3, pp. 3-30. - -- ‘La reproduction d'une crise. L'apprentissage des menuisiers et des charpentiers à Anvers (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)’, Revue du Nord, 2003, (Nr. 17 hors série, éds. G. Bodé and Ph. Marchand, Formation professionnelle et apprentissage (XVIIIe-XXe siècles), (Actes du colloque international L’histoire de la formation technique et professionnelle en Europe du XVIIIe siècle au milieu du XXe siècle, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, 18-20 January 2001), pp. 31-51. - -- ‘Le produit du talent ou la production de talent? La formation des artistes à l'Académie des beaux-arts à Anvers aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles’, Paedagogica Historica, 37 (2001) 3, pp. 569-607. - -- ‘Medische praktijken. Conflicten rond competentie in de Antwerpse medische sector, 17de en 18de eeuw’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 27 (2001) 4, pp. 459-484.
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