Participating is more important than winning: The impact of socio-economic change on commoners' participation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Flanders

Continuity and Change

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-433

  De Moor, Tine ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

BOS;

EID: 82455225722     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: 1469218X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416010000287     Document Type: Article

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21. In July 1622, for example, Mayken van Ghistele, unwedded daughter of Absoloen from the neighbouring village of Male became a member of the common; CAB, AGL 12, 'Hoofdboek: boek van de geslachten van de Gemene en Loweede', 1622-1703.
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33. Bernardus Dermulle, commoner from 1804; see CAB, AGL 14, 'Hoofdboek: boek van de geslachten van de Gemene-en Loweede', 1769-1889.
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35. Franciscus van den Berghe became aanborger in 1832;
36. Laurentius van Belleghem became aanborger in 1802;
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53. T. De Moor, 'The silent revolution: A new perspective on the emergence of commons, guilds, and other forms of corporate collective action in Western Europe', The International Review of Social History (special issue on guilds), 53 (suppl. 16) (2008), 175-208. See also http://www.collective-action.info for further information on various kinds of institutions for collective action.