Sieben Feys (°2000) received his Bachelor of Arts in History (2021) and Master of Arts in History (2022) at Ghent University. For his Masters dissertation, he studied seigneurial lordship in seventeenth-century Flanders through a case study of the lordship of Nevele and the della Faille family. In October 2022, he started his doctoral research on the subject of seigneurial lordship in the Duchy of Brabant (c. 1400-1550), supervised by prof. dr. Frederik Buylaert and prof. dr. Mario Damen. This research is part of the GOA-project “Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650”, led by prof. dr. Frederik Buylaert, prof. dr. Thijs Lambrecht and prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut, with dr. Jim van der Meulen as co-promoter. He is affiliated to Ghent University (Department of History) and the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School of Historical Studies). His research concerns the socio-political history of the Low Countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era.

Seigneuries, lordship, power dynamics, state formation, nobility, Duchy of Brabant, Low Countries, Middle Ages and Early Modern Era.