木瓜福利影视

Janna Coomans is Assistant Professor at the department of Medieval History. Her research focuses on social history, urban history and public health in premodern cities. Her dissertation (cum laude) was published in 2021 as Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge 木瓜福利影视 Press). Between 2018-2021, she was a post doctoral researcher in the ERC-project 鈥淗ealthscaping Urban Europe鈥�. She  currently works on the VENI (Dutch Research Council) project 鈥淚nflammable cities: how fire risks transformed the Low Countries, 1250-1600鈥�.

She is the author of Dievenland: Overleven in de middeleeuwen (De Bezige Bij, 2025), which is shortlisted for the Libris Geschiedenisprijs 2025 and nominated for the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs 2025.

Publications

Monographs

Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge 木瓜福利影视 Press, 2021).

Dievenland: Overleven in de middeleeuwen (De Bezige Bij, 2025).

Peer reviewed articles

• 'Policing Itinerant Poor in the Northern Low Countries, 1450-1570: Making Vagrants', BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 138 (2023): 2, 3-31.
• 'The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health' (co-author: Guy Geltner), Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (2023).
• 鈥楳aking Good and Breaking Bad: Materiality and Community in the Late Medieval Low Countries,鈥� English Historical Review (2022).
• 'Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent '(co-author: L茅a Hermenault), Journal of Urban History (2022).
• 'Up in Smoke: Fire Safety in the Low Countries, 1250-1550,鈥� in Inner City Dynamics: Transformations of the Spatial Structure and Appearance of Pre-modern European Towns, 1300-1800, edited by Jaap Evert Abrahamse and Heidi Deneweth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022).
• 鈥楽ubsidie voor transitie: De stadsbrand van 1463 en het wederopbouwprogramma鈥� Silva 3:2 (2022).
• 鈥楶olitics of Movement: Exploring Passage Points in Responses to COVID-19 and the Plague in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands,鈥� (co-author: Claire   Weeda), Journal for the History of Environment and Society (2020) 5, 79鈥�89.
• 2019. 鈥楾he King of Dirt: Public Health and Sanitation in Late Medieval Ghent,鈥� Urban History 46, 82鈥�105.
• 2018. 鈥楽tratenmakers: Infrastructuur, gebuurten en het publiek belang in laatmiddeleeuws Gent,鈥� Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, 127-164.
• 2019. 鈥楩ood Offenders: Public Health and the Marketplace in the Late Medieval Low Countries,鈥� in Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe, edited by Carole Rawcliffe and Claire Weeda (Amsterdam: Amsterdam 木瓜福利影视 Press), 121-148.
• 2016. 鈥楶olicing Female Food Vendors in the Late Medieval Netherlands,鈥� Yearbook of Women鈥檚 History 36, 97-113.
• 2013. 鈥極n the Street and in the Bathhouse: Medieval Galenism in Action?鈥� (co-author: Guy Geltner), Anuario de Estudios Medievales 43, 53-82.

Academic publications

• 2020. 鈥楴ette Welle: Stadsreiniging, onderhoud en burgerplicht in middeleeuws Deventer鈥� Deventer Jaarboek, 14-25.  
• 2019. 鈥楧e politiek van de vleeshal: Stad, gilde, product en prestige in de Nederlanden (1280-1600),鈥� Leidschrift 34.2.
• 2018. 鈥楧e stromende stad: Publieke gezondheid in de middeleeuwse Lage Landen鈥� Madoc 32, 158-162.
• 2015. 鈥楧e middeleeuwse stad en zijn varkens鈥� (co-author: Frans Camphuijsen), Madoc 28, 140-149.
• 2014. 鈥楬oe vies waren de Middeleeuwen? Baden in een middeleeuwse stad,鈥� Geschiedenis Magazine 2, 45-49. 

Grants, fellowships and awards

• 2020. NWO VENI grant, Project: (In)flammable Cities: Rethinking Crisis, Resilience and Community in the Low Countries (1200-1650).
• 2020. Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize.
• 2019. Pro Civitate Dissertation Prize, The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium (KVAB).
• 2019. Dissertation Prize, Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (UvA).