Monique Weis

Full Professor in Early Modern History

Monique Weis is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Luxembourg since April 2021 and Deputy Head of the Institute of History since March 2023. She is an honorary Research Associate of the Fonds national de la Recherche scientifique (Belgium). Most of her publications and other academic activities deal with topics in political and religious history of 16^th and 17^th century Europe. She is also interested in the reception and memory of this troubled period in more recent times (19^th-21^st c.). With Prof. Lena Steveker from the Institute of English Studies, Monique Weis aims to develop encounters and activities in Early Modern Studies at the University of Luxembourg. She also manages a blog for researchers, students and the wider public about the Early Modern Duchy of Luxembourg (https://emlu.hypotheses.org).

Monique Weis is the co-initiator of a network of researchers focusing on The Spoken and Written Word in Early Modern Politics and Religion (16^th and 17^th c.).

 

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Parole 

EVA

Collateral Councils

Discours véritables

 

Research areas and Topics:

The Early Modern Duchy of Luxembourg: a strategic periphery of the Habsburg Low Countries. Discourses and practices of political governance in a polycentric monarchy.

Religious history of the Southern Low Countries

Polemic writings in the context of confessional strife

The “Spanish Roads” and the Habsburg Netherlands: transnational approaches to the social history of armies and military mobilities in the 16th and 17^th

The Low Countries and the Holy Roman Empire: a history of discourses, exchanges and mobilities (16^th and 17^th).

Interpretations and uses of the Early Modern period in memory, historiography, literature, and the arts (19^th-21^st)

MSH 2.303
monique.weis@uni.lu
(+352) 46 66 44-9206

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