Marije Jansen

Biography

Marije graduated in Archaeology in 2010 at the University of Amsterdam. Her MA thesis dealt with Carolingian (eighth and ninth centuries AD) settlements in the Netherlands, focusing on houseplans.After graduating in 2010 she worked as a field archaeologist in several projects in the Netherlands, among which a large scale excavation at Lent, near Nijmegen. In February 2013 she started as a PhD candidate at Leiden University.

Research Interest

Marije is part of the research group ‘Charlemagne’s Backyard’ of prof. dr. F.C.W.J. Theuws and prof. dr. M. de Jong (University of Utrecht). This group consists of one postdoctoral historian researcher (University of Utrecht) and three Archaeology PHD candidates (Leiden University). The team aims to create new images of the nature of the Carolingian economy based on archaeological data from the Netherlands, combined with a study of written evidence concerning manorialisation and landholding in the Netherlands.