Jessica Dijkman
Research Institute for History and Art History (OGK) - Econo
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Jessica Dijkman (1960) is a postdoc researcher Jessica Dijkman (1960) is a postdoc researcher in economic history. Her research focuses on the medieval and early modern era. Currently she studies the way societies in late medieval and early modern Europe coped with food crises and famines. In earlier research projects she investigated commodity market institutions in medieval Holland and compared the organization of labour, particularly craftsmanship, in the Middle Ages in Europe and the Islamic world.
Research Interest
economic history
Publications
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Dijkman, J.E.C. (2017). Review of Dennis Romano, Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100 to c. 1400. Enterprise & Society, 18 (3).
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Curtis, Daniel, Dijkman, Jessica, Vanhaute, Eric & Lambrecht, Thijs (2017). Famines in the Low Countries, fourteenth to nineteeth centuries. In Guido Alfani & Cormac Ó Gráda (Eds.), Premodern famine in Europe, fourteenth to nineteenth centuries Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Dijkman, J.E.C. (2017). Bread for the poor - Poor relief and the mitigation of the food crises of the 1590s and the 1690s in Berkel, Holland. In Dominik Collet (Eds.), Famines in the premodern world (1300-1800) Springer.
