Peter Wessel Hansen

Peter Wessel Hansen

Gæsteforsker

Primære forskningsområder

  • Fattigdom i tidlig moderne Danmark
  • Fattigvæsen, filantropi og tiggeri i 17-1800-tallet
  • Byhistorie og Københavns historie under enevælden
  • Standssamfundet, ære og urbane grupperinger i tidlig moderne Danmark
  • Kulturhistorie, socialhistorie og mikrohistorie

Aktuel forskning

I'm a co-PI in the research project Copenhagen Complains - The Culture of Complaint and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Urban Order. The project is the first systematic investigation of complaining as a decisive factor in the making and changing of urban order in eighteenth-century Europe. The aim is to document how complaints constituted a specific form of urban agency and explain how complaints became an essential component in the struggle for influence in an autocratic political system with no formal popular representation.

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