Werner Thomas - Curriculum Vitae#
RESEARCH TOPICS
- 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)
- 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, focusing on New Spain, Peru, and New Granada (1520 - 1800)
RESEARCH PROJECTS PROMOTED
- 2016 - 2020 The acquisition, production processes, and diffusion of knowledge about the indigenous languages of the New World in the early modern period, 1500-1700-
- 2013 - 2017 Hispano-Flemish Elites in the Habsburg Netherlands. Transregional Marriages and Mixed Identities, 1659 - 1708
- 2010 - 2014 The infrastructure of globalisation: the Southern Netherlands as translation centre for the Spanish-Portuguese monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -
- 2010 - 2014 The infrastructure of globalisation: The printing press of the Southern Netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in the viceroyalties of New Granada and Río de la Plata, 1535-1800
- 2009 - 2014 The infrastructure of globalisation: The printing press of the Southern Netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in the viceroyalty of peru, 1535 - 1800
- 2008 - 2013 The infrastructure of globalisation: The printing press of the Southern Netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in the viceroyalty of New Spain, 1520 - 1800
Other publications
E. De Bom, R. Lesaffer and W.Thomas (eds.), Early Modern Sovereignties: Theory and Practice of a Burgeoning Concept in the Netherlands, Brill, forthcoming.
W. Thomas, ‘Constructing Linguistic Knowledge of American Indian Languages’, ed. Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World, Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming.
W. Thomas, ‘The metamorphosis of the Spanish Inquisition, 1520-1648’, in: D. Prudlo (ed.), A Companion to Heresy Inquisitions, Leiden, 2019, 198-227.
W. Thomas, ‘The Inquisition, Trade and Tolerance in Early Modern Spain’, in: B. Dewilde, J. Poukens (eds.), Entrepreneurs, Institutions & Government Intervention in Europe (13th-20th Centuries), Brussels: Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2018, 279-291
W. Thomas, ‘Inquisition and repression of Protestantism in Spain’, in: M.Ortrud Hertrampf (ed.), The Reformation in Spain, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2017, 171-186.
W. Thomas and J. Verberckmoes, ‘The Southern Netherlands as a Centre of Global Knowledge Concerning the Iberian Empires in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries’, in: S. Dupré, B. Demunck, W. Thomas, G. Vanpaemel (eds.), Embattled Territory: The Circulation of Knowledge in the Spanish Netherlands, Ghent, 2015, 161-197.
W. Thomas, ‘The Treaty of London, the Twelve Years Truce and Religious Toleration in Spain and the Netherlands (1598-1621), in: R. Lesaffer (ed.), The Twelve Years Truce (1609): Peace, Truce, War and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century (Studies in the History of International Law, 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2014, 277-297.
W. Thomas, ‘De Zwarte Legende voorbij. Spanje, de Zuidelijke Nederlanden en de eerste globalisering, 1500-1700′, in: Academiae Analecta. Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 20 (2013), 3-20.
