Janna Coomans is Assistant Professor at the department of Medieval History. Her research focuses on social history, urban history and public health in premodern cities. Her dissertation (cum laude) was published in 2021 as Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press), which was awarded with the John Nicholas Brown Prize 2025 for Best First Monograph by the Medieval Academy of America. Between 2018-2021, she was a post doctoral researcher in the ERC-project “Healthscaping Urban Europe”. She currently works on the VENI (Dutch Research Council) project “Inflammable cities: how fire risks transformed the Low Countries, 1250-1600”.
She is the author of Dievenland: Overleven in de middeleeuwen (De Bezige Bij, 2025), which was the winner of the Libris Geschiedenisprijs 2025 and shortlisted for the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs 2025.
Monographs
Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Dievenland: Overleven in de middeleeuwen (De Bezige Bij, 2025).
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