Demographic Shifts and the Politics of Taxation in the Making of Fifteenth-Century Brabant

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This collection of essays is the result of a research project financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), entitled Imagining a Territory: Constructions and Representations of Late Medieval Brabant (project nr. 360-50-100), and carried out at the University of Amsterdam. We want to thank first and foremost NWO, which also funded the publication of this volume in Open Access. Furthermore, we want to thank the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) as the host institution of the research project. Of course, we highly appreciate the willingness of the authors to contribute to this volume and adapt their chapters according to the comments of the editors and the anonymous reviewer, to whom we are grateful for the careful reading of the manuscript and the insightful comments. All the people from Amsterdam University Press, especially Chantal Nicolaes, Lucia Dove and Louise Visser, facilitated the editing and production of the volume. Others who contributed to the realisation of this volume are, in alphabetical order, Bastiaan van den