Werner Thomas#
| Membership Number: | 5195 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/0017010.htm |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2016 Professor of Iberian and Iberoamerican history, University of Leuven
- 2011 - 2016 Associate Professor, University of Leuven
- 2004 - 2011 Assistant Professor, University of Leuven
Fields of Scholarship
- Court studies, especially on the court of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in the Southern Netherlands (1598-1633)
- Contribution of Flemish prints and engravings to the construction of the Spanish empire in America
- Inquisition and religious (in)tolerance in the Spanish Empire (1500-1800)
- Circulation of people, goods, art and knowledge from the Southern Netherlands in the Iberian world empires (1500-1800)
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
- 2005 Etienne Sabbe Foundation Award for History, for the book In de klauwen van de Inquisitie: Europese protestanten in Spanje, 1517-1648, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2003
