Contact info
HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes); History Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Social-economic and urban historian; postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels heidi.deneweth@vub.ac.be
Research interest
Housing; Construction history; Urban development; Urban history; Social and economic history; Business history; Finance; Labour relations; Early modern period (16th-18th centuries); 19th century.
Research projects in the field of Construction History Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794 – 2015, VUB-IRP, 2016-2021. Risks and opportunities. The building trades in Antwerp and Brussels, 1500-1900, FWO, 2016-2019. Entrepreneurial strategies of building contractors. The case of Antwerp, 1490-1670, FWO, 2013-2016.
Representative publications in the field of Construction History
Bertels, I., Deneweth, H., Horemans, B. & Van de Voorde, S., ‘Pour une historiographie de l’entrepreneur du bâtiment (1400-2000), in: F. Fleury et al., Les temps de la construction. Processus, acteurs, matériaux: Recueil de textes issus du deuxième congrès francophone d'histoire de la construction, Parijs 2016, pp. 1989-1999.
Abrahamse, J.E., Deneweth, H., Kosian, M. en Schmitz, E., ‘Gouden kansen? Vastgoedstrategieën van bouwondernemers in de stadsuitleg van Amsterdam in de Gouden eeuw’, Bulletin KNOB, 114 (2015) 4, 229-257.
Van Bochove, C., Deneweth, H. & Zuijderduijn, J. 2015, ‘Real estate and financial markets in England and the Low Countries, 1300-1800’, Continuity and Change, vol 30, no. 1, 1-30.
Deneweth, H 2007, ‘The economic situation and its influence on building and renovating in Bruges, 16th-18th centuries’, in: J.-F. Chauvard et L. Mocarelli (eds.), L’économie de la construction dans l’Italie Moderne, special issue of MEFRIM (Mélanges de l’Ecole Française de Rome. Italie et Méditerrannée), 119/2, pp. 537-550.
Deneweth, H 2009, ‘De wisselwerking tussen bouwtechnische veranderingen en evoluerende samenlevingsvormen in drie Brugse buurten, late middeleeuwen tot negentiende eeuw’, in: J. D’hondt (ed.), Huizenonderzoek & Stadsgeschiedenis. Colloquium Brugge 28 november 2008, Brugge (Leven in Oude Huizen, VII) 41-55.
Full bibliography https://cris.cumulus.vub.ac.be/portal/en/persons/heidi-deneweth(aab06a48-72d6-4b1a-817e-88a56979378a).html
