Raymond van Uytven

Raymond van Uytven (Leuven, 1 February 1933 – Halle-Booienhoven, 20 December 2018) was a Belgian medievalist, a specialist in the economic and urban history of the medieval Duchy of Brabant, who was a professor at the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven.

Life
Van Uytven studied at the Catholic University of Leuven. He earned a Ph.D. in 1959 with a thesis on the city finances and urban economy of Leuven between the 12th and 16th centuries. After a number of years working at the National Archives of Belgium, he obtained a university appointment. A Festschrift was published at his retirement in 1998. He died at home in Halle-Booienhoven (Zoutleeuw) on 20 December 2018.

Publications

 * "Splendour or Wealth: Art and Economy in the Burgundian Netherlands", Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10:2 (1992), pp. 101-123.
 * De zinnelijke middeleeuwen (1998)
 * "Showing off one's rank in the Middle Ages", in Showing Status: Representation of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Wim Blockmans (Turnhout, 1999), pp. 19-34.
 * Studies over Brabantse kloostergeschiedenis (Brussels, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 1999)
 * Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries (2001)
 * De papegaai van de paus (2003)
 * as editor: Geschiedenis van Brabant van het hertogdom tot heden (2004)
 * Geschiedenis van de dorst: Twintig eeuwen drinken in de Lage Landen (2007)
 * Smaken verschillen (2010)