My research tries to speak to current debates and events - as far as this is possible for the early modern period. All my works relate to the topic of 'age', understood not just as old age, but as the age as a fundamental human category. One take on this reflects on the socio-economic consequences of population aging: Questions around old age poverty and the adequacy of our pension systems have resurfaced in the 21st-century Europe. I study institutional retirement and life cyclical social mobility in the 17th and 18th century.Â
My Research Interests at one Glance
Disciplinary: Socio-Economic History, Visual History, History of Age
Theoretical: Social Structures and Mobility, Age Consciousness, Welfare
Chronological & Spatial: Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Era, Europe
Methodological: Life Cycle Analysis, Visual Analysis, Quantitative-Qualitative Designs