Monique WEIS

The Early Modern Duchy of Luxembourg: a strategic periphery of the Habsburg Low Countries. Discourses and practices of political governance in a composite monarchy. Relations with the neighbouring territories (Lorraine, Trier, etc.).

Religious history of the Duchy of Luxembourg and of the Southern Low Countries, including the political role of the abbeys, the implementation of the Tridentine reforms, religious practices linked to relics and pilgrimages, Protestantism in a confessionally disputed region.

The Low Countries and the Holy Roman Empire: a history of discourses, exchanges and mobilities (16^th and 17^th c.). Diplomacy (correspondences and embassies), confessional exiles, circulation of news, armies on the move, etc.

Polemic writings in the context of confessional strife (Philip of Marnix, Discours véritables, Cornelius Loos…)

The “Spanish Roads” and the Habsburg Netherlands: transnational approaches to the social history of armies and military mobilities in the 16^th and 17^th century.

Interpretations and uses of the Early Modern period in memory, historiography, literature, and the arts (19^th-21^st c.) (Mary, Queen of Scots; Egmont; Mansfeld; Dutch Revolt; Protestantism in Belgium and Luxembourg).