Wim Blockmans

Who is Wim Blockmans?

Wim Pieter Blockmans is Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Ghent. He has been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002. He published Emperor Charles V 1500-1558, and Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1550, 372 pp.: Revised translation of: Eeuwen des Onderscheids. Geschiedenis van de Europese middeleeuwen, 476 pp. as well as many other books on late medieval and early modern state power.

He is member of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, Academia Europaea, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verfassungsgeschichte. He is also an Advisory Board member of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation.