Photography © Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht“
Research
Quentin Verreycken’s work explores the social, cultural, and political history of late medieval and early modern Western Europe.
His main research interest is the impact of war on society, and how communities, governments, and justice responded to military violence. His first book, Pour nous servir en l’armée (2014), examines the enforcement of discipline and justice in the armies of the Duke of Burgundy in the 15th century. His second book, Crimes et gens de guerre au Moyen Âge (2023), explores the role of royal pardons in the criminalization of military abuses in the aftermath of the Hundred Years’ War. Quentin’s current project focuses on how survivors of military atrocities sought justice in the border regions of France, England, and the Low Countries during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It sheds light on how responses to wartime violence in this period helped shape some of the principles we now associate with international law.
Quentin is also involved in the coordination of several inter-university and international collaborations: