Research interests/Specialisaties

• Urban history/stadsgeschiedenis 

• Migration history/migratiegeschiedenis

• History of trade/handelsgeschiedenis

• History of Low Countries/geschiedenis vd Nederlanden

• Medieval history/middeleeuwse geschiedenis

• Interdisciplinary approaches/interdisciplinaire benaderingen

Short biography

Bart Lambert is an Assistant Professor of Late Medieval History and a member of the HOST research group at the VUB. He studied medieval history at Ghent University, where he completed his PhD in 2011. Before joining the VUB in 2018, Bart worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of York (2012-2014 and 2016-2018) and as a lecturer at Durham University (2014-2016). He held the Belgian Chair at the University of London, Birkbeck College in 2019-2020 and was a visiting researcher at the Università degli Studi di Genova in 2007-2008.

Bart is a specialist of the urban, economic and social history of the later Middle Ages and is particularly interested in the role of the Low Countries in transnational processes of commercialisation, migration and mobility. He is the author of The City, the Duke and their Banker: The Rapondi Family and the Formation of the Burgundian State (Brepols, 2006), of Immigrant England, 1300-1550 (with W. Mark Ormrod and Jonathan Mackman, Manchester University Press, 2019) and of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Bart is currently the PI of two research projects. The first, Make-up of the City, integrates historical, archaeological, scientific and medical approaches to develop new insights into the origins, composition, health and wellbeing of urban societies in the pre-modern Low Countries (funded by the VUB Research Council, 2019-2024). The second, Managing Markets, compares the role of institutions in the organisation of international trade in seven principalities of the Burgundian and Habsburg Low Countries (funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, 2020-2023).

Korte biografie

Bart Lambert is Docent Laatmiddeleeuwse Geschiedenis en lid van de onderzoeksgroep HOST aan de VUB. Hij studeerde middeleeuwse geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Gent, waar hij zijn doctoraat behaalde in 2011. Voor hij de VUB vervoegde in 2018, werkte Bart als postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de University of York (2012-2014 en 2016-2018) en als docent aan Durham University (2014-2016). Hij was de Belgian Chair at the University of London, Birkbeck College, in 2019-2020 en verbleef als visiting researcher aan de Università degli Studi di Genova in 2007-2008.

Bart is een specialist van de stedelijke, economische en sociale geschiedenis van de late Middeleeuwen en is vooral geïnteresseerd in de rol van de Nederlanden in transnationale commercialiserings- en migratieprocessen. Hij is de auteur van The City, the Duke and their Banker: The Rapondi Family and the Formation of the Burgundian State (Brepols, 2006), van Immigrant England, 1300-1550 (samen met W. Mark Ormrod en Jonathan Mackman, Manchester University Press, 2019) en van meerdere artikels in gepeerreviewde tijdschriften.

Bart is momenteel promotor van twee onderzoeksprojecten. Het eerste, Make-Up of the City, integreert historische, archeologische, wetenschappelijke en medische benaderingen met de bedoeling nieuwe inzichten in de oorsprong, de samenstelling, de gezondheid en het welzijn van stedelijke samenlevingen in de pre-moderne Nederlanden (gefinancierd door de Onderzoeksraad van de VUB, 2019-2024). Het tweede project, Managing Markets, vergelijkt de rol van instellingen in de organisatie van internationale handel in zeven vorstendommen van de Bourgondische en Habsburgse Nederlanden (gefinancierd door het FWO-Vlaanderen, 2020-2023).

Selected publications/Kernpublicaties

• Bart Lambert, 'Citizenry and Nationality: The Participation of Immigrants in Urban Politics in Later Medieval England', History Workshop Journal, forthcoming 2020

• Bart Lambert, 'Double Disadvantage or Golden Age? Migration, Gender and Economic Opportunity in Later Medieval England', Gender & History 31:3 (2019), pp. 545-564.

• W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert & Jonathan Mackman, Immigrant England, 1300-1550 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), 312 p.

• Bart Lambert & Katherine Anne Wilson (eds), Europe’s Rich Fabric: The Consumption, Commercialisation and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (14-16^th Centuries) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2016), 258 p.

• Bart Lambert, ‘Merchants on the Margins: Fifteenth-Century Bruges and the Informal Market’, Journal of Medieval History 42:2 (2016), pp. 226-253.

For a full overview of Bart's publications, please visit his PURE profile page.