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First Name
Violet
Last Name
Soen
Country
Belgium
State
Affiliation
KU Leuven
Website URL
http://mwpweb.eu/VioletSoen/
Keywords
Dutch Revolt, Wars of Religion, Religious War and Peace, Borderlands and Transregional History, Early Modern Nobilities, Book History, Inquisition
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About Me

Violet Soen is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at KU Leuven. She wrote two award-winning monographs on the Inquisition and the Revolt in sixteenth-century the Low Countries. Her fields of expertise include questions of religious war and peace, inquisition and reconciliation, church-state relationships and the history of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations between 1500 and 1800. Her wide-ranging research interests also embrace book history, history of the universities and elite studies.

Recent Publications

––, Y. Junot (eds.), Noblesses transrégionales: les Croÿ et les frontières pendant les guerres de religion (France, Lorraine, Pays-Bas, XVIe-XVIIe siècle) (Burgundica 30), Brepols, Turnhout (forthcoming 2020).

––, B. De Ridder, W. Thomas & S. Verreyken (eds.), Transregional Territories: Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond (Habsburg Worlds 2), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2020.

––, A. Soetaert, J. Verberckmoes & W. François (eds.), Transregional Reformations: Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe, Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht (Refo500 Academic Series 61), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2019.

––, W. François (eds.), The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1540-1700), 3 vol. (Refo500 Academic Series 35,1), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2018.

 

––, Geschiedenis is een werkwoord. Een inleiding tot historisch onderzoek, Leuven, Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2016; second slightly revised edition, 2018.

––, Vredehandel. Adellijke en Habsburgse verzoeningspogingen tijdens de Nederlandse Opstand (1564-1581) (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age), Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2012 (book and open access e-publication).

––, Geen pardon zonder paus! Studie over de complementariteit van het koninklijk en pauselijk generaal pardon (1570-1574) en over inquisiteur-generaal Michael Baius (1560-1576) (Verhandelingen Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, nieuwe reeks 14), Brussels, KVAB Press, 2007.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Habsburg Worlds, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain
Expertise by Geography
France, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Spain
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Diplomacy, Migration & Immigration, Politics