Past

Frans Camphuijsen (1987) finished a Bachelor's degree (2009; cum laude ) and a Research Master's degree (2011; cum laude ) in History at the University of Amsterdam. With his Master thesis, entitled 'Public Speech and Societal Narratives of a Late Medieval Law Court: The Council of Utrecht, 1385-1425', he started work on late medieval judicial authorities in their social, political and cultural context. Basing himself primarily on records of judicial practice, Frans considered the way in which the Council of Utrecht constructed its legal narratives and communicated these to a broader public. To establish its own position as judicial authority, the Council of Utrecht was forced to convince society of its own legitimacy as legal institution by presenting narratives about society and its own role within it and communicating these to society by oral, textual, ritual and symbolic means.

Present

From september 2011 on Frans has been employed as both a teacher and PhD-student at the section of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam . His PhD-thesis builds forth on the work done for his Master-thesis. It will present a comparative history of the communicative practices of late medieval law courts and the narratives they presented for and about society. Adding to the work done for Utrecht , the thesis will treat the archiepiscopal court of York and the parliament of Paris in their socio-political and communicative contexts. Special attention is and will be paid to aspects of (public) punishment, community building and the interaction of different communicative practices (textual, oral, ritual, spatial, etc.).

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Teaching

As teacher Frans will at first concentrate on courses for the BA in History. Subjects taught include:

- General medieval history and source criticism (1st year)

- Medieval urban history (2nd/3rd year)

- History of (public) punishment (2nd/3rd year)

- Medieval crusades (2nd/3rd year)

Furthermore, Frans has composed undergraduate teaching material on subjects as diverse as:

- Merovingian Gaul

- Plague and the history of disease

- Late medieval culture  

Center for Medieval Studies Amsterdam

The Center for Medieval Studies Amsterdam (CMSA) was founded in 2010 as a platform for collaboration among medievalist across different fields at the University of Amsterdam . To read more follow the link below.

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Medieval History at UvA

To know more about the Medieval historians at the UvA including their projects, teaching and other work, follow this link.

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(photo: Renate Klinkenberg)

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