Walter Prevenier#


Walter Prevenier
Membership Number:202
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Elected:1989
Main Country of Residence:BELGIUM
Homepage(s):http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Prevenier




Present and Previous Positions
  • Visiting professor at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) in 1968, the University of California in Berkeley (1983 and 2004), Rutgers University (1987 and 1989), Pennsylvania University Philadelphia (1989), the University of Columbia (New York) (1993, 2001, 2002, 2007), the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg (Virginia) (1999 - 2000), the University of Princeton (2000), UCLA, Los Angeles (2008)
  • 1999 Professor Emeritus
  • 1967 - 1999 State University of Ghent
  • 1959 ‑ 1960 Postgraduate at the Ecole des Chartes (Paleography and Diplomatics) and the Law School (Canon Law) at Paris in
  • 1962 PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy and Litterature (Dept. of History) of the State University of Ghent

Fields of Scholarship
  • Marriage and violence against women in the Middle Ages
  • Historiography and the methodology of the social sciences
  • Paleography and dipolmatics, critical editions of medieval sources
  • Social and cultural history of the Burgundian Netherlands (14th – 16th century)

Honours and Awards
  • 1985 Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences at Brussels
  • 1989 Member of the Academia Europea at Cambridge (UK)
  • 1992 Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America at Cambridge, Mass.
  • 1996 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at Amsterdam
  • 1996 Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at London


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