Person

Eersels, Ben

1992

Ben Eersels (°1992) graduated in July 2014 at KU Leuven in medieval history, having completed his master’s thesis Omme de openbare profite, nutscepe ende orbore van den tween landen. De motieven van de Brabantse steden achter het Brabants-Vlaamse verdrag van 3 december 1339. Earlier, he studied for one semester in an Erasmus exchange program at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. Since October 2014, he conducts PhD-research for the OT-project Words and Deeds. Peaceful subversion in late medieval Brabant and Liège. He will analyse how people, who were excluded from taking part in politics, tried to influence the government and legislation in a peaceful way.