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Jeroen Duindam
Academic director/ Professor of Early Modern History
- Name
- Prof.dr. J.F.J. Duindam
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- +31 71 527 2759
- j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0002-7175-5545
Jeroen Duindam is Academic Director and Professor of Early Modern History at the Leiden University Institute for History.
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The comparative study of rulers and elites forms the core of my research interest. The connections between rulers and elites were formed partly at the dynastic court; hence this institution plays a key role in my work. Initially concentrating on the comparative history of early modern European courts, I have moved towards a global perspective and now also include the early nineteenth century. My global examination of dynasty and succession highlighted the differentiated roles of women in power constellations, a theme I have been pursuing in recent research.
A series of research projects reflect these interests. After taking part in a project on the comparative history of tributary empires and leading a project on dynastic legacies in Europe and Asia, I initiated a NWO-Horizon programme on Eurasian Empires (2011-2016) including nine researchers based at three Dutch universities. Currently, I lead Monarchy in Turmoil Rulers, Courts and Politics in the Netherlands And Germany, C.1780 – C.1820 (2017-2022) with two postdoc researchers and a PhD Candidate (Dutch website 'Monarchie in beroering'). Currently I am preparing a project on matriliny in world history.
Several monographs illustrate the expanding scope of my research. From Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals c. 1550-1780 (Cambridge 2003; paperback 2007; Italian, Spanish and Japanese translations) I moved to Dynasties. A global history of power 1300-1800 (Cambridge 2016, Chinese translation planned). In 2019 my short but comprehensive bird’s eye view of dynastic rule from ancient Egypt to the 21st century came out with Oxford University Press: Dynasty. A Very Short Introduction. In 2011 I started editing the series Rulers and Elites at Brill – with currently eighteen volumes on its list, several of them available through open access.
Curriculum Vitae
Studying history (major) and anthropology (minor) at Utrecht University, I was struck by the different approaches to kingship and ritual in these disciplines. This contrast led me to write a critical dissertation on Norbert Elias’ theory of court life, Macht en Mythe (1992), published in an expanded and translated edition as Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the early modern European Court (Amsterdam 1995). In the early stages of my career, I combined various teaching positions with a job as bassoonist. From 1991 to 2008, I held a sequence of assistant- and associate professorships at the Utrecht History Department, in cultural history, the history of international relations, and political history. In these years I also actively participated in the restructuring of the department’s curriculum. In 2008 I was appointed to the chair for early modern history at Groningen, followed by an appointment to the chair for early modern history at Leiden University in September 2010.
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- Faculty of Humanities
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Academic director/ Professor of Early Modern History
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Duindam. J.F.J. (2023), Early Modern Questions about the Post-Revolutionary Royal Court. In: Holtz B., Wienfort M. & Neugebauer W. (Eds.), Der preußische Hof und die Monarchien in Europa: Akteure, Modelle, Wahrnehmungen (1786-1918). Paderborn, Boston, Leiden : Schoening-Brill . 52-84.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2023), Families and power: a global perspective, European History Quarterly 53(3): 482-494.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2023), Review of: Gelder K. van (2021), More than mere spectacle: coronations and inaugurations in the Habsburg monarchy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. New York: Berghahn. Austrian History Yearbook 54: 228-229.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2022), Framing emptiness: response to a grandiloquent discussion of dynasty, Global Intellectual History 7(5): 876-881.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2022), Bachofen redivivus?: Female-biased kinship in world history . In: Weeda C., Sicking L. & Stein R. (Eds.), Communities, environment and regulation in the premodern world: essays in honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers. CORN Publication Series no. 20: Brepols. 27-46.
- Duindam J.F.J. (9 November 2022), Is ‘Great Ming’ a Dynasty: Discussant (Lecture).
- Duindam J.F.J. (2022), Echoes of global political dynasty in modern business families. Jewish Business Dynasties 1850-1950: Family, Power, Vulnerability 18 September 2022 - 20 September 2022. Seneffe, Belgium: Jewish Business Dynasties 1850-1950: Family, Power, Vulnerability.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2022), Central European Interdisciplinary Summer School (c. 1200-1700): Comparison: why and how? (Zoom workshop) (University of Pécs). [other].
- Duindam J.F.J., Somsen Q.O. & Welten F.J.J. (2022), Organisation and opening lecture: Conference Monarchy in Turmoil. Princes, Courts, and Politics in Revolution and Restoration, 1780-1830. Monarchy in Turmoil. Princes, Courts, and Politics in Revolution and Restoration, 1780-1830 18 May 2022 - 20 May 2022. Leiden.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2021), Gender, succession and dynastic rule, History and Anthropology 32(2): 151-170.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2021), Zon en maan: de Franse koning en zijn maîtresse Review of: Adams T. & Adams C. (2020) The Creation of the French Royal Mistress. From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 134(2): 327-328.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2020), Dynasty. A Very Short Introduction. RealAudio: audiobooks.com. [audio].
- Duindam J.F.J. (2019), A plea for global comparison: redefining dynasty, Past and Present: a Journal of Historical Studies 242(Supp-14): 318–347.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2019), Dynasty. a Very Short Introduction: Oxford University Press.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2019), Review of: Earenfight Theresa (2018), Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. More than Just a Caslte. Boston. Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 46(2): 298-300.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2019), Review of: Swann Julian (2019), 'Hovelingen uit de gratie: van de cold shoulder tot terechtstelling'. Exile, Imprisonment or Death. The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789.. Oxford: 2017. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 132(1): 135-136.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2019), Crossing Boundaries: Diplomacy and the Global Dimension, 1700–1850, International History Review : .
- Berkel M. van, Duindam J.F.J., Favereau M., Geevers L., Gommans G., Leeuwen R. van & Rietbergen P. (2018), Prince, Pen, and Sword. Eurasian Perspectives no. 15. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2018), Rulers and elites in global history: introductory observations. In: Berkel M. van & Duindam J.F.J. (Eds.), Prince, pen, and sword: Eurasian perspectives. Rulers & Elites no. 15. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 1-31.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2018), The court as a meeting point: cohesion, competition, control. In: Berkel M. van. & Duindam J.F.J. (Eds.), Prince, pen, and sword: Eurasian perspectives. Rulers & Elites no. 15. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 32-128.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2018), Prince, pen, and sword: Eurasian perspectives. In: Berk M. van & Duindam J.F.J. (Eds.), Prince, pen, and sword: Eurasian perspectives no. 15. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 542-565.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2018), Société de cour: policer l'aristocratie. In: Charle Christophe & Roche Daniel (Eds.), L’EUROPE ENCYCLOPÉDIE HISTORIQUE: Actes Sud. 1044-1048.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2018), Review of: Pomerantz M. & Vitz B. (2017), In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East. New York. New York: New York University Press. The Medieval Review .
- Duindam J.F.J. (2017), Pre-modern Power Elites: Princes, Courts, Intermediaries. In: , The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites: Palgrave. 161-179.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2017), ウィーンとヴェルサイユ ヨーロッパにおけるライバル宮廷 [tr. Duindam J.F.J., Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals 1550-1780 (Cambridge University Press 2003)]. Tokyo: Tosui Shobo.
- Duindam J.F.J. & Gommans J.J.L. (Eds.) (2017), Rulers and Elites.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2016), Review of: Featherstone Michael, Spieser Jean-Michel & Tanman Gülru (2016), The Emperor's House. Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism. Urban Spaces no. 4. Berlijn: De Gruyter. Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften 16(6).
- Duindam J.F.J. (2016), Review of: McMahon Keith (2016), Celestial Women: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing. Leiden, Boston: Brill. NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 18(2): 400-401.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2015), Dynasties. A Global History of Power 1300-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2015), Royal Courts. In: Scott H. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History. 1350-1750. Volume II Cultures and Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 440-477.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2015), Dynasty and Elites: from Early Modern Europe to Late Imperial China. In: Geevers L. & Marini M. (Eds.), Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe. Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities. Farnham: Ashgate. 59-83.
- Duindam J.F.J. (6 September 2015), Der Günstling global? Favourites and Faction at Early Modern Courts. Der Günstling global? Favourites and Faction at Early Modern Courts: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/6524. [blog entry].
- Duindam J.F.J. (2015), Dynasties, Medieval Worlds: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies 1(2): 59-78.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2015), De Europese universiteit: tussen wal en schip?, De Nederlandse Boekengids 1(1): 30-31.
- Duindam J.F.J. & Dabringhaus S. (2014), The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces. Agents and Interactions no. 5. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
- Dabringhaus S. & Duindam J.F.J. (2014), The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces. Agents and Interactions. Rulers & Elites no. 5. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2014), Review of: Subrahmanyam Sanjay (2012), Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia: Harvard University Press. The Historian 76(3): 614-616.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013), L’Europe des cours princières Entre Renaissance et premier XVIIe siècle. In: Ducos Blaise (Ed.), L'Europe de Rubens. Catalogue d'exposition. Paris: Hazan-Hachette. 72-109.
- Duindam J.F.J., Harries Jill, Humfress Caroline & Hurvitz Nimrod (2013), 'Introduction'. In: Duindam Jeroen, Harries JIll, Humfress Caroline & Hurvitz Nimrod (Eds.), Law and Empire. Ideas, Practices, Actors. Leiden, Boston: Brill. 1-22.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013), The politics of female households: afterthoughts. In: Akkerman N. & Houben B. (Eds.), The Politics of Female Households. Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Rulers & Elites no. 4. Leiden, Boston: Brill. 365-370.
- Duindam J.F.J., Harries Jill, Humfress Caroline & Hurvitz Nimrod (Eds.) (2013), Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013) EEN BASTION VAN ADELSMACHT IN HET HART VAN DE FRANSE MONARCHIE. Review of: Horowski Leonhard (2012), Die Belagerung des Thrones. Machtstrukturen und Karrieremechanismen am Hof von Frankreich, 1661-1789. Ostfildern: Thorbecke Verlag GMBH Stuttgart. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 126(3): 419-420.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013) Book review: The French court in the eighteenth century: noble power and Royal obstinacy. Review of: (2012|2012), Ambrogio A.Caiani, Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792|Leonhard Horowski: Die Belagerung des Thrones. Machtstrukturen und Karrieremechanismen am Hof von Frankreich 1661-1789. Cambridge|Ostfildern: Cambridge University Press|Thorbecke. Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften .
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013) LODEWIJK XVI OPNIEUW VOOR HET GERECHT?. Review of: Caiani Ambrogio (2012), Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GESCHIEDENIS 126(4).
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013), Review of: Subrahmanyam S. (2012), Courtly Encounters. Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia.. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. The Historian .
- Duindam J.F.J. (2013), Adel en staat in vroegmodern Europa. De omkering van een geschiedbeeld, Virtus : bulletin van de Werkgroep Adelsgeschiedenis 19: 39-48.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2012), The Habsburg Court in Vienna: Kaiserhof or Reichshof?. In: Evans R.J.W. & Wilson P.H. (Eds.), The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806: A European Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 91-119.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2012), LE CENTRE DYNASTIQUE EN EUROPE ET EN ASIE: UNE COMPARAISON IDEALE. In: Fantoni Marcello (Ed.), The Court in Europa. Rome: Bulzoni. 375-406.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2012) Review of : D. De Vooght, Royal taste : food, power and status at the European European courts after 1789, Ashgate, 2012. Review of: De Vooght Danielle (2011), Royal taste : food, power and status at the European courts after 1789. Aldershot: Ashgate. Food and History 9, 2: 309-311.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2012), Review of: Storrs Chr. (2009), The fiscal-military state in eighteenth-century Europe. Essays in honour of P.G.M. Dickson. Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate. Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 2: 130-131.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2012), Almacht en onmacht: heersers en hun leefomgeving, Leidschrift 27(2): 7-16.
- Duindam J.F.J. (Ed.) (2012), . European History Quarterly. London: SAGE.
- Duindam J.F.J. (Ed.) (2012), . The Hungarian Historical Review. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- Duindam J.F.J. (Ed.) (2012), . Virtus : bulletin van de Werkgroep Adelsgeschiedenis. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren.
- Duindam J.F.J. (Ed.) (2012), . Rulers & Elites. Leiden: Brill.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2011), Versailles, Vienna, and Beyond: Changing Views of Household and Government in Early Modern Europe. In: Duindam J., Artan T. & Kunt I.M. (Eds.), Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective. Boston; Leiden: Brill. 401-431.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2011), Royal courts in dynastic states and empires. Introduction. In: Artan T., Kunt I.M. & Duindam J. (Eds.), Royal courts in dynastic states and empires. A Global Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 1-23.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2011), Courts, Rulers and Elites in Early Modern Europe and Asia: les extrèmes se touchent?. In: Eich P., Schmidt-Hofner S. & Wieland C. (Eds.), Der wiederkehrende Leviathan. Staatlichkeit und Staatswerdung in Spätantike und Früher Neuzeit. Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Winter. 317-342.
- Duindam J.F.J., Artan T. & Kunt I.M. (Eds.) (2011), Royal courts in dynastic states and empires: a global perspective no. 1. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2011) Book Review: ¿Louis XIV espagnol? Madrid et Versailles, images et modeles. Versailles and Paris, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. Review of: Sabatier G. & Torrione M. (2009), ¿Louis XIV espagnol? Madrid et Versailles, images et modeles. Versailles and Paris, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles no. 189. Paris; Versailles: Edition de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. H-France Review 11: 1-4.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2011), Vergelijking als Maatstaf, Holland in de wereld, de wereld in Holland, Holland: historisch tijdschrift 43(3): 158-167.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2011), Review of: Nexon Daniel (2009), The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires and International Change no. 4. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. European History Quarterly 41: 712-714.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2010), El legado borgoñón en la vida cortesana de los Habsburgo austriacos. In: Jonge Krista de & Garcia Garcia Bernardo (Eds.), El Legado de Borgoña. Fiesta y Ceremonia Cortesana en la Europa de los Austrias (1454-1648). Madrid 35-58.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2010), Early Modern Europe: beyond the strictures of modernization and national historiography, European History Quarterly 40(4): 606-623.
- Duindam J.F.J. (2003), Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Duindam J.F.J. (1995), Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.