Hans Cools

Hans Cools (historian)
Born1969 (1969)
Academic background
EducationOur Lady College, Antwerp
Alma materUniversity of Antwerp, University of Ghent, University of Amsterdam
ThesisMannen met macht. Edellieden en de Moderne Staat in de Bourgondisch-Habsburgse Landen, ca. 1475 - ca. 1530 (2000)
Academic advisors
Henk van Nierop, Wim Blockmans
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Early modern Europe
InstitutionsLeiden University, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Fryske Akademy, KU Leuven
Websitekuleuven.academia.edu/CoolsHans

Hans Cools (born 1969) is a historian of early-modern Europe. He is a professor at the KU Leuven and a senior research fellow of the Fryske Akademy.

Career

Cools studied history and philosophy at the universities of Antwerp, Lille and Ghent. He was a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and completed his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. His thesis, on the nobility in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands, was supervised by Henk van Nierop and Wim Blockmans. It charted the networks of patronage and fealty that tied the nobility to the crown.

Cools briefly worked at Leiden University (1999-2003) and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2003-2006) before taking up a position as a lecturer at the KU Leuven. Together with Steven Gunn and David Grummitt, he has studied war as a factor in the formation of political identities in England and the Low Countries in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

In March 2015 he was interviewed on VRT Radio 1 about the 16th-century Iconoclastic Fury in the Low Countries, to provide perspective on the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL then in the news.

Publications

Monographs
Edited volumes
Chapters and articles

References

  1. ↑ "Cools Hans". Davidsfonds.
  2. 1 2 3 Lodewijk Born (20 September 2016). "De Beeldenstorm was een proces dat bij onze geschiedenis hoort". Reformatorisch Dagblad.
  3. ↑ Simon Groenveld, Facetten van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog: Twaalf artikelen over de periode 1559-1652 (Hilversum, 2018), pp. 36-37.
  4. ↑ Bas Mesters (16 Oct 2004). "Geleerde missie". NRC Handelsblad.
  5. ↑ Henk van Renssen (19 April 2003). "Oorlog als scheppingsdaad". De Volkskrant.
  6. ↑ "Beeldenstorm bij IS". Radio 1 (Belgium). 3 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Reviewed by Peter Burke in The English Historical Review, Vol. 123, No. 501 (2008), pp. 455-457.