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Researcher
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail elisabeth.geevershist.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Liesbeth's research concerns dynastic rule in the Early Modern period, particularly in the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. She has focused on dynastic history in both Europe and West-Asia, particularly in the Spanish-Habsburg Monarchy and Safavid Iran, writing about the role of junior family members in dynastic rule and the conceptualization of dynasties.
Liesbeth got her MA from Leiden University (2002) and PhD from the University of Amsterdam (2008), both in the Netherlands. Since 2008 she has worked as a lecturer at Utrecht University and Leiden University, and she has been a post-doctoral researcher at Leiden, Radboud University Nijmegen and Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (Germany).
Currently, she works together with Harald Gustafsson on a project titled ‘Re-thinking Dynastic Rule: Dynasties and State Formation in the Habsburg and Oldenburg Monarchies, 1500–1700’, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2018-2020).
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Editorships (1)
Articles (12)
- Geevers, L. (2020). Ties, Triangles and Tangles : Catherine de Medici as Philip II of Spain’s Mother-in-Law. Court Historian, 25, 186-200. Routledge.
- Geevers, L. (2019). Ny dynastisk historia. Scandia, 85, 87-97. Stiftelsen Scandia.
- Geevers, L. (2018). Commemorating Humayun: Emperor Akbar, the Akbarnama and the tomb of Humayun (ca. 1570–1605). The Court Historian, 23, 27-39. Routledge.
- Geevers, L. (2018). Het Escoriaal en de Tombe van Humayun vergeleken : De vormgeving van het dynastieke verleden van de Mughals en de Habsburgers in de zestiende eeuw. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 131, 237-259. Van Gorcum.
- Geevers, L. (2016). Dynasty and State Building in the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy : The Career of Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy (1588-1624). Journal of Early Modern History, 20, 267-292. Brill Academic Publishers.
- Geevers, L. (2015). Safavid Cousins on the Verge of Extinction : Dynastic Centralization in Central Asia and the Bahrāmī Collateral Line (1517-1593). Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 58, 293-326.
- Geevers, L. (2015). The Miracles of Spain : Dynastic Attitudes to the Habsburg Succession and the Spanish Succession Crisis (1580–1700). Sixteenth Century Journal, 46, 291-311. Kirksville, Mo.: The Sixteenth Century Journal.
- Geevers, L. (2014). Als God op Aarde : De diplomatieke precedentiestrijd tussen Frankrijk en Spanje in argumenten, 1564-1610. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 127, 625-640. Van Gorcum.
- Geevers, L. (2012). The Conquistador and the Phoenix : the Franco-Spanish Precedence Dispute (1564-1610) as a Battle of Kingship. International History Review, 23-41. Taylor & Francis.
- Geevers, L. (2011). Being Nassau : Nassau family histories and Dutch national discourse from 1541 to 1616. Dutch Crossing, 35, 4-19.
- Geevers, L. (2010). Family matters : William of Orange and the Habsburgs after the abdication of Charles V (1555). The Renaissance Quarterly, 63, 459-490.
- Geevers, L. (2007). Hoe toegankelijk was de ‘papieren koning’? Een informeel communicatiekanaal tussen Lamoraal van Egmont en Willem van Oranje en de Spaanse centrale besluitvorming in de jaren 1559-1564. The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History / Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 4, 39-60. International Institute of Social History.
Book chapters (6)
- Geevers, L. (2018). The Danish Habsburgs : Hans, Dorothea and Christina of Denmark as part of the Habsburg dynasty. In Bodensten, E., Brilkman, K., Larsson Heidenblad, D. & Sanders, H. (Eds.) Studia historica Lundensia, Nordens historiker : En vänbok till Harald Gustafsson (pp. 273-286). Historiska institutionen, Lunds Universitet.
- Geevers, L. & Dumenjou-Favereau, M. (2018). The Golden Horde, the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy, and the Construction of Ruling Dynasties. In van Berkel, M. & Duindam, J. (Eds.) Rulers & Elites, Prince, Pen and Sword : Eurasian Perspectives (pp. 452-512), 15.
- Geevers, L. (2015). The Nassau Orphans : The disputed legacy of William of Orange and the creation of the Prince of Orange (1584-1675). In Geevers, L. & Marini, M. (Eds.) Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe : Rulers, aristocrats and the formation of identities (pp. 197-216). Ashgate.
- Geevers, L. & Marini, M. (2015). Introduction : Aristocracy, dynasty and identity in early modern Europe, 1520-1700. In Geevers, L. & Marini, M. (Eds.) Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe : Rulers, aristocrats and the formation of identities (pp. 1-22). Ashgate.
- Geevers, L. (2011). How to save a life? : Alonso de Laloo, secretary to the count of Horn, on a mission to the Spanish court (1566-1567). In Vermeir, R., Ebben, M. & Fagel, R. (Eds.) Agentes e identidades en movimiento : España y los Paises Bajos siglos XVI-XVIII (pp. 71-88). Silex Ediciones.
- Geevers, L. (2011). The king strikes back : The Spanish diplomatic campaign to undermine the international status of the Dutch Republic, 1581-1609. In Kubben, R. & Brood, P. (Eds.) The act of Abjuration : inspired and inspirational (pp. 81-95). Wolf Legal Publishers.
Conference contributions (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
Assistant editor of The Court Historian
Series Editor, Early Modern Court Studies, Amsterdam University Press
Member Editorial Board for the book series Early Modern History, published by Editorial UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain)
Researcher
- History
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail elisabeth.geevershist.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30