Publications

Articles

  • Kim, S., Baudru, J., Ryckbosch, W., Bersini, H. & Ginis, V., [‘Early evidence of how LLMs outperform traditional systems on OCR/HTR tasks for historical records’](http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11623), ARXIV pre-print (2025).

  • S. Kim, A. Vanhoyweghen, W. Ryckbosch & V. Ginis, ‘Is Intergenerational Elasticity (IGE) a Misleading Measure of Wealth Mobility?’ PLOS One (2025).

  • W. Ronsijn & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Income and wealth mobility in the smaller towns of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries: an exploratory analysis’, in: Social Mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries) (2025). DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.16.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Towards a new history of old mobility: obstacles and prospects’, in: Social Mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries) (2025). DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.31.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Mestrapers en jonkheren. Getuigen en hun sociaal profiel in de achttiende-eeuwse stad.’Nieuwe Tijdingen (2024) 113-138.

  • W. Ryckbosch & W. Saelens, ‘Fuelling the urban economy: a comparative study of energy in the Low Countries, 1600-1850’ The Economic History Review 76: 1 (2023) 221-256. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13187.

  • D. De Vriese, M. Brengman, F. Leroy, W. Ryckbosch, ‘Is it the cow that sells the steak, or the sizzle? Using animal images to sell meat in mid-nineteenth-century Belgium’ Food, Culture & Society 26:1 (2023) 145-166. Doi: 10.1080/15528014.2021.1987628.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘De ambities van burgerwetenschap onder de loep: het getuigenissenproject als specimen’ Stadsgeschiedenis, 19:2 (2023) 89-104.

  • W. Ryckbosch & A. Winter, ‘Tussen corporatisme en kapitalisme? Stedelijke nijverheid en arbeid in achttiende-eeuws Vlaanderen’ TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 20:3 (2023), 37-80.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Those closest to the fire enjoy the most of its glow. Inequality and energy in eighteenth-century Flanders’ in Saelens et al. Energy in the Early Modern Home (Routledge, 2023), 217-241.

  • T. Bervoets, J. Wijffels & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Vergeten stemmen? Ongeletterdheid in 19de-eeuws Brugge gereconstrueerd dankzij burgerwetenschap’ Tijd-schrift 12:1 (2022) 40-57.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Governance, regulation and the state’ in I. Van Damme, A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Enlightenment(Bloomsbury, 2022).

  • J. Dumolyn, W. Ryckbosch, M. Speecke, ‘Did inequality produce medieval revolt? The material position and political agency of textile workers during the Flemish Revolt of 1379-85’ Social History 46:4 (2021) 372-405. Doi: 10.1080/03071022.2021.1967638.

  • C. Charmpi, T. Vervaet, E. Van Reckem, W. Geeraerts, D. Van Der Veken, W. Ryckbosch, F. Leroy, M. Brengman, ‘Assessing levels of traditionality and naturalness depicted on labels of fermented meat products in retail’, Meat Science, 181 (2021).

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘A regional comparison of social inequality & economic development in 16th-century Flanders’ in: G. Alfani & E. Thoen, Inequality in rural Europe (Late Middle Ages-18th century) (Brepols, Turnhout, 2020).

  • J. Dumolyn, W. Ryckbosch & M. Speecke, ‘Cycles of Urban Revolt in Medieval Flanders: The Economics of Political Conflict’, in: Alma Poloni (ed.), Social Mobility in Medieval Europe (Rome: Viella, 2020).

  • B. Blondé, J. Hanus & W. Ryckbosch, ‘The rise of the fiscal state. Urban finances, politics and social inequality in sixteenth-century ’s-Hertogenbosch’, in B. Blondé, S. Geens, H. Greefs, W. Ryckbosch, T. Soens & P. Stabel, editors, Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020), Brepols (2020).

  • T. Lambrecht & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Economic inequality in the rural Southern Low Countries during the Fifteenth century: sources, data and reflections,’ Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effects (Florence University Press, 2020), pp. 259-283.

  • B. Blondé, S. Geens, H. Greefs, W. Ryckbosch, T. Soens & P. Stabel, editors, Inequality and the City. Perspectives from the history of the Low Countries (Brepols, 2020).

  • B. Blondé & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Material Culture’, in S. Dixon & B. Kümin, Interpreting early modern Europe (London, Routledge 2019).

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘From spice to tea. On consumer choice and the justification of value in the early modern Low Countries,’ Past and Present, 242:1 (2019) 37-78. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gty046.

  • B. Blondé, T. Lambrecht, W. Ryckbosch & R. Vermoesen, ‘Consumérisme, révolution agricole et proto-industrialisation dans la Flandre et le Brabant du XVIIIe siècle: malédiction ou bénédiction? Une synthèse préliminaire’ in G. Ferrand & J. Petrowiste (eds.), Le nécessaire et le superflu. Le paysan consommateur (Presses Universitaires du Midi, 2019), pp. 189-214.

  • P. Erdkamp, W. Ryckbosch, P. Scholliers, ‘A swift overview of eating and drinking since antiquity’, in H. Meiselman, Handbook of Eating and Drinking. Cham: Springer Verlag (2019; 2024).

  • A. Geyzen, W. Ryckbosch, P. Scholliers, N. Teughels, F. Leroy, ‘Food innovation and tradition: interplay and dynamics’, in: Ch. Galanakis (ed.), Innovations in traditional foods (Cambridge: Elsevier, 2019), pp. 27-52.

  • B. Blondé, J. Hanus & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Social inequality and the fiscal state in the early modern Low Countries. Urban finance, politics and social relations in 16th-century ’s Hertogenbosch’, in B. Dewilde & J. Poukens, Economic intervention as social collaboration in Europe (13th-20th centuries). Essays in honour of Erik Aerts, Leuven University Press 2018.

  • F. Leroy, M. Brengman, W. Ryckbosch, P. Scholliers, ‘Meat in the post-truth era: Mass media discourses on health and disease in the attention economy’, Appetite, 125 (2018), 345-355.

  • J. Bolt & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Introduction to the special issue on inequality’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 14:2 (2017).

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Prizing the New and Exotic: the Price and Value of Tea in the Early Modern North Sea area (17th-18th Centuries)’, in: F. Ammanati (ed.), I prezzi delle cosi nell’età preindustriale. The prices of things in pre-industrial times, Florence University Press 2017, pp. 259-276.

  • K. Dombrecht & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Wealth inequality in a time of transition: Coastal Flanders in the sixteenth century’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 14:2 (2017).

  • G. Alfani & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500-1800,’ Explorations in Economic History, 62 (2016), pp. 143-153.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Economic inequality and growth before the industrial revolution: the case of the Low Countries (14th-19th centuries)’, European Review of Economic History, 20:1 (2016), 1-22.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Early modern consumption history: current challenges and future perspectives’, Low Countries Historical Review, 113:1 (2015) 57-84.

  • B. Blondé & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Arriving to a set table. The integration of hot drinks in the urban consumer culture of the 18th-century Southern Low Countries’, in: M. Berg (ed.), Goods from the East: Trading Eurasia 1600-1800, Palgrave Press, 2015, 309-327.

  • B. Blondé & W. Ryckbosch, ‘In ‘splendid isolation’. A comparative perspective on the historiographies of the material renaissance and the consumer revolution’, History of Retailing and Consumption, 1:2 (2015) 105-124.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Materialiteit en stedelijk weefsel’, in P. Stabel (ed.), Mechelen. Uw toren is niet af, Mechelen, 2014.

  • J. Haemers & W. Ryckbosch, ‘A targeted public: public services in fifteenth-century Ghent and Bruges’, Urban History, 37:2 (2010), pp. 203-225.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Vroegmoderne economische ontwikkeling en sociale repercussies in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Nijvel in de achttiende eeuw’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 7:3 (2010), pp. 26-56.

  • J. Puttevils, J. Dijkman & W. Ryckbosch, ‘Cities of Commerce: an Introduction to the Articles’, Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 11:4 (2014), 55-59.

  • W. Ryckbosch & E. Decraene, ‘Household credit, social relations, and devotion in the early modern economy’, Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 11:1 (2014), 1-28.

  • K. Dombrecht, E. Van Onacker, H. Masure, W. Ryckbosch, T. Soens, E. Thoen), ‘The regional differences in office holding by rural elites. A comparative study for late medieval Flanders and Brabant (14th-16th century)’, Dagmar Feist (ed.), Bürgerlich-bäuerliche Eliten im 17.-19. Jahrhundert, Oldenburg, 2013.

  • W. Ryckbosch, ‘Stedelijk initiatief of hertogelijke repressie? Financiële hervormingen en kredietbeleid te Gent (1453-1495)’, Tijdschrijft voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 4:2 (2007), pp. 3-28.

  • W. Ryckbosch, Tussen Gavere en Cadzand. De Gentse stadsfinanciën aan het einde van de Middeleeuwen (1460-1495). [Handelingen van de Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Gent], Ghent, 2007.

Books

  • W. Saelens, B. Blondé, W. Ryckbosch, editors, Energy in the Early Modern Home (Routledge, 2023).

  • B. Blondé, I. Devos, J. Hanus, W. Ryckbosch, Trend en toeval. Inleiding tot de kwantitatieve methoden voor historici, Leuven University Press. (2012, 2015, 2019).

  • W. Ryckbosch, Tussen Gavere en Cadzand. De Gentse stadsfinanciën aan het einde van de Middeleeuwen (1460-1495). [Handelingen van de Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Gent], Ghent, 2007.