Jip Barreveld
PhD candidate
- Name
- J. Barreveld MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.barreveld@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Jip Barreveld is a PhD candidate in the Rural Riches research project at the Faculty of Archaeology.
Office days
Generally on Monday, Thursday, and Friday.
Research
Starting from September 2018, Jip is working as a PhD within the Rural Riches project, which approaches the economy of post-Roman Northern Gaul from the bottom-up. Starting from the observation that a vast amount of objects, sometimes precious and exotic, have been found in thousands of cemeteries across the region, this project seeks to analyse the role of the rural, non-elite population within the Early Medieval economy.
Jip’s PhD, Towns and Elites in Merovingian Northern Gaul, investigates the presence of elites and the extent of elite control over the economy within the region. If richly furnished graves are no longer accepted at face-value as evidence for elite status, then aristocrats are difficult to find in the archaeological record. The presence, or absence, of elites will have important ramifications for our understanding of the social and economic organisation of post-Roman society.
Teaching activities
Teaching assistant & guest lectures in (early) medieval history and archaeology.
Curriculum vitae
Jip has obtained his BA (cum laude) History and Research MA (cum laude) in Ancient History, both at Leiden University. Early on, he has developed an interest in the period of Late Antiquity and the transformation of the Roman World, with a particular focus on the sixth century A.D. Latin West. His BA-thesis critically examined ethnic identity in Ostrogothic Italy. His MA-thesis questioned the rigid division of Late Antique North African society into an urban, cosmopolitan society on the one hand, and an inland, indigenous and rural population on the other. Combining evidence from (physical) geography, survey archaeology, literary evidence and epigraphy, he instead posited the interrelationship of various local societies, only breaking down progressively in the sixth century A.D.
PhD candidate
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Historical Archaeology
PhD candidate/ Guest
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Historical Archaeology
- Barreveld J. (6 March 2023), What did the Merovingian palace look like?. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (27 October 2023), The “one percent” of Merovingian Gaul: landed wealth in the will of Remigius of Reims. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (15 April 2022), Can we name a corpse? : Identifying royalty in the burial record. Leiden medievalists blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (30 September 2022), "Horribiles vultus": race and racism in Byzantine Africa. Leiden medievalists blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (8 January 2021), Snatched by the wind: the wooden chapel of Saint Servatius in Maastricht. Leiden Archaeology Blog. Leiden (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (11 June 2021), Aqueduct warfare : water infrastructure and sieges in post-Roman Europe. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J & Hartog M. den 6 December 2021, Introductie 'Middeleeuwse toestanden'. Middeleeuwse toestanden S01E01. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J, Brandsma M. & Hartog M. den 6 December 2021, Middeleeuwse vrouwen hadden geen macht: in gesprek met Margreet Brandsma. Middeleeuwse toestanden S01E02. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J., Hartog M.I. den & Porck M.H. 17 December 2021, In de Middeleeuwen werd niemand oud: in gesprek met Thijs Porck (seizoen 1, aflevering 3). Middeleeuwse toestanden. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J., Haperen M. van & Hartog M. den 6 December 2021, In de Middeleeuwen at iedereen vlees: in gesprek met Martine van Haperen. Middeleeuwse toestanden S01E04. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J. (2021), Krakkemikkig of monumentaal: de Sint-Servaaskapel in vroegmiddeleeuws Maastricht, Archeologie Magazine 2021(1): 39-39.
- Barreveld J. (2020), Reflections on an environmental history of resistance: state space and shatter zones in Late Antique North Africa. In: Klinkenberg V., Oosten R. van & Driel-Murray C. van (Eds.), A Human Environment: Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 50. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 153-165.
- Barreveld J. (21 February 2020), Beards and Barbarians: Hair and identity in the Early Medieval West. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (24 July 2020), Where is Gogo? Friendship and poetry at the Austrasian court. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (9 December 2020), Mapping Merovingians I: texts in an archaeological database. Merovingian Archaeology. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (2019), Een Romeinse "beschavingsoorlog" in Noord Afrika: Justinianus' strijd tegen de Moren (533-548), Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland 60(2): 38-41.
- Barreveld J. (18 August 2019), A grazing field for pigs? The early years of post-Roman Cologne. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. & Vreugd M. de (2018), Cobblestone Stories. Leiden as an ideal for New Urbanism? : interview with Mark Neupert, Leidschrift 33(1): 99-105.
- Barreveld J. (2015), Roman or Barbarian? Ethnicity in Ostrogothic Italy, Student Undergraduate Research E-Journal! 1: .