Raymond van Uytven

Raymond van Uytven (Leuven, 1 February 1933 – Halle-Booienhoven, 20 December 2018) was a Belgian medievalist, a specialist in the economic and urban history of the medieval Duchy of Brabant, who was a professor at the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven.

Life

Van Uytven studied at the Catholic University of Leuven. He earned a Ph.D. in 1959 with a thesis on the city finances and urban economy of Leuven between the 12th and 16th centuries. After a number of years working at the National Archives of Belgium, he obtained a university appointment. A Festschrift was published at his retirement in 1998.^[1] He died at home in Halle-Booienhoven (Zoutleeuw) on 20 December 2018.^[2]

Publications

• "Splendour or Wealth: Art and Economy in the Burgundian Netherlands", Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10:2 (1992), pp. 101-123.
• De zinnelijke middeleeuwen (1998)
• "Showing off one's rank in the Middle Ages", in Showing Status: Representation of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Wim Blockmans (Turnhout, 1999), pp. 19-34.
• Studies over Brabantse kloostergeschiedenis (Brussels, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 1999)
• Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries (2001)
• De papegaai van de paus (2003)
• as editor: Geschiedenis van Brabant van het hertogdom tot heden (2004)
• Geschiedenis van de dorst: Twintig eeuwen drinken in de Lage Landen (2007)^[3]
• Smaken verschillen (2010)

References

1. "Proeve 't al, 't is prysselyck": Consumption in European towns (13th-18th century). Liber amicorum Raymond van Uytven (Antwerp, 1998).
2. Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld and Guido Marnef, "In memoriam prof. dr. Raymond van Uytven (1933-2018)", Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek (2019), pp. 11-13.
3. Reviewed by Leen Alberts in Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 124:1 (2009), pp. 86-89.