Wim Blockmans
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Wim Pieter Blockmans (b. 1945, Antwerp, Belgium) is Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University.
He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Ghent. He has also been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002.
He published Emperor Charles V 1500-1558 (London 2002), and other books on late medieval and early modern state power.