MJM Damen

MJM (Mario) Damen is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on late medieval nobility, chivalric culture, and urban interactions in the Low Countries.

• Research Projects
  • Staging Nobility in Urban Space: The Nassau Dynasty and Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400 - c. 1570) (2024-2028)
  • Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry (2020-2023)
  • Imagining a Territory (2015-2020)
• Collaborations
  • Co-Principal Investigator with Rosalind Brown-Grant for the AHRC-funded project The Joust as Performance: Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry
  • Co-editor of Pas d'armes and Late Medieval Chivalry: A Casebook (Liverpool University Press, 2024)
• Expertise
  • Specializes in cultural and socio-political dynamics of late medieval tournaments, nobility, and manuscript traditions.
  • Interdisciplinary work bridges history, art history, and literary studies.
• Contact
  • Email: MJMDamen@uva.nl
  • Phone: +31 (0)20 525 8896
  • Room: C1.06B, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam