awilkin@ulb.ac.be
Octobre 2014- : Professeur, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Depuis Oct. 2012: Directeur de l'Unité de Recherches SOCIAMM
Octobre 2009-septembre 2014: Chercheur Qualifié FNRS-FRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Janvier à juillet 2009: Postdoctorale Onderzoeker, Francqui Stichting, Ughent (advisor: Pr. Erik Thoen)
Janvier à août 2008: Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (advisor: Pr. Michaël McCormick)
2006- sept. 2009: Chargé de Recherches FNRS, Université de Liège
2002-2006: Aspirant FNRS, Université de Liège
Histoire médiévale
Histoire économique et sociale
Histoire des famines, de l'accès à la nourriture et des inégalités
Histoire des rationalités comptables et pratiques fiscales
Histoire des institutions politiques et religieuses
Histoire agraire / rurale et relations villes-campagnes
Historiographie (XIXe-XXe s.)
Avenue Roosevelt, 50 1050 Bruxelles CP 133/01
I do work on economic, social and institutional History of the Middle Ages (the Early and High Middle Ages), with a focus on the area between the Loire and the Rhine (mainly the Middle Meuse and Liège-area), investigating the way the rural society was framed by the lay and religious elites. I pay specific attention to:
1° The organisation of the agricultural production by the institutional actors and the peasant family, in large but also modest-scale estates
2° The insertion of the rural economy in the circuits of exchange, with specific attention paid to the archaeological data as proxies. In this frame, as I question the circulation of food and its access, one of my main goals is to construct a systematic reflection upon the food-crises in the Early and High Middle Ages, with Jean-Pierre Devroey and other partners
3° The practices of management of the religious communities and their practical and moral implications