Jip Barreveld
Researcher
- Name
- Dr. J. Barreveld
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.barreveld@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0007-8019-0455
Jip Barreveld is a postdoctoral researcher within the project ‘Connected Communities in Early Medieval Europe’ at the Faculty of Achaeology
Office days
Generally on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
Research
Dr Jip Barreveld focuses on the transformation of the Roman world and the emergence of early medieval Europe (300–1000 CE), with particular attention to identity, social structure, connectivity, and landscapes. His interdisciplinary work bridges the ancient and medieval periods, as well as the disciplines of history and archaeology. He is especially interested in using GIS to integrate historical and archaeological data and to visualise early medieval topographies.
Barreveld is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the project Connected Communities in Early Medieval Europe, 450-900. His research focuses on ‘meeting places’, such as assembly sites and temporary markets, to better understand the pan-European connectivity of early medieval commoners.
Barreveld’s PhD dissertation, Towns and Elites in Merovingian Gaul, conducted within the Rural Riches project, critically reassessed prevailing scholarly perspectives on elites and social structure in Merovingian northern Gaul (450–650) and advocated a more bottom-up approach to Merovingian society. He applied GIS and social network analysis to map elite presence and to visualise post-Roman towns as centres of power.
Teaching activities
Teaching assistant & guest lectures in (early) medieval history and archaeology.
Curriculum vitae
Jip Barreveld started his position as a postdoctoral researcher in 2026 in the ‘Connected Communities of Early Medieval Europe’-project. Between 2018 and 2024, he worked on his PhD dissertation, Towns and Elites in Merovingian Gaul in the ‘Rural Riches’ project, which he successfully defended in 2025 at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. From 2023 to 2024, he was also employed as a lecturer in the Department of Ancient History in Leiden, where he taught introductory BA-courses, including The World of Late Antiquity. Between 2024 and 2026, he gained experience in secondary education through the Trainees in Onderwijs-programme.
Barreveld obtained his BA in History (cum laude) and Research MA (cum laude) in Ancient History, both at Leiden University, specialising in (ethnic) identity in Ostrogothic Gaul and Byzantine North Africa. His MA thesis, Two Worlds? State Space and Marginal Peoples in Late Antique North Africa, was awarded the Fruin Prize in 2018.
Researcher
- FdA World Archaeology
Guest researcher
- FdA World Archaeology
- Barreveld J. (2026), De gouden eeuw van de boer: Boeren en elites in Merovingisch Gallië, Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland 67(1): 44-48.
- Barreveld J. (28 May 2025), Topographies of power: towns and elites in Merovingian northern Gaul, 450-650 (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Theuws F.C.J.W., Wood I.N.
- Barreveld J. (2025) Middeleeuwse oplossingen voor alledaagse problemen. Review of: R. Paroubek-Groenewoud (ed.) | Carine van Rhijn (ed.) (2023), De inventieve middeleeuwen. Praktische kennis en kunde van voor het jaar 1000. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren. Madoc: tijdschrift over de middeleeuwen 38(1): 51-53.
- Barreveld J. (2025), De gouden eeuw van de boer, Erfgoed Magazine 2025(6): .
- Barreveld J. (2024), Review of: Buijtendorp T. (2023), Caesar in de Lage Landen. De Gallische Oorlog langs Rijn en Maas. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Omniboek. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 137(1): 86 (87).
- Barreveld J. (6 March 2023), What did the Merovingian palace look like?. Leiden medievalists blog. Leiden (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (27 October 2023), The “one percent” of Merovingian Gaul: landed wealth in the will of Remigius of Reims. Leiden medievalists blog. Leiden (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (27 October 2023), The "one percent" of Merovingian Gaul: landed wealth in the will of Remigius of Reims. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Theuws F., Schaper D., Langbroek M., Lippok F., Barreveld J., Wersch L. van & Emaus R. (2022), Rural riches: navigating Early Medieval Europe. Leiden (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). [database].
- Barreveld J. (15 April 2022), Can we name a corpse? : Identifying royalty in the burial record. Leiden medievalists blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (30 September 2022), "Horribiles vultus": race and racism in Byzantine Africa. Leiden medievalists blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (8 January 2021), Snatched by the wind: the wooden chapel of Saint Servatius in Maastricht. Leiden Archaeology Blog. Leiden (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (11 June 2021), Aqueduct warfare : water infrastructure and sieges in post-Roman Europe. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J & Hartog M. den 6 December 2021, Introductie 'Middeleeuwse toestanden'. Middeleeuwse toestanden S01E01. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J, Brandsma M. & Hartog M. den 6 December 2021, Middeleeuwse vrouwen hadden geen macht: in gesprek met Margreet Brandsma. Middeleeuwse toestanden S01E02. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J., Hartog M.I. den & Porck M.H. 17 December 2021, In de Middeleeuwen werd niemand oud: in gesprek met Thijs Porck (seizoen 1, aflevering 3). Middeleeuwse toestanden. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J., Haperen M. van & Hartog M. den 6 December 2021, In de Middeleeuwen at iedereen vlees: in gesprek met Martine van Haperen. Middeleeuwse toestanden S01E04. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Barreveld J. (2021), Krakkemikkig of monumentaal: de Sint-Servaaskapel in vroegmiddeleeuws Maastricht, Archeologie Magazine 2021(1): 39-39.
- Barreveld J. (2020), Reflections on an environmental history of resistance: state space and shatter zones in Late Antique North Africa. In: Klinkenberg V., Oosten R. van & Driel-Murray C. van (Eds.), A Human Environment: Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 50. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 153-165.
- Barreveld J. (21 February 2020), Beards and Barbarians: Hair and identity in the Early Medieval West. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (24 July 2020), Where is Gogo? Friendship and poetry at the Austrasian court. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (9 December 2020), Mapping Merovingians I: texts in an archaeological database. Merovingian Archaeology. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. (2019), Een Romeinse "beschavingsoorlog" in Noord Afrika: Justinianus' strijd tegen de Moren (533-548), Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland 60(2): 38-41.
- Barreveld J. (18 August 2019), A grazing field for pigs? The early years of post-Roman Cologne. Leiden Medievalists Blog. Leiden. [blog entry].
- Barreveld J. & Vreugd M. de (2018), Cobblestone Stories. Leiden as an ideal for New Urbanism? : interview with Mark Neupert, Leidschrift 33(1): 99-105.
- Barreveld J. (2015), Roman or Barbarian? Ethnicity in Ostrogothic Italy, Student Undergraduate Research E-Journal! 1: .