HPIMS/DH - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (History) is the group name for the researchers of Ghent University's Department of History involved in the study of medieval society and culture. Their research covers a broad range of interests, including diplomatics and palaeography, socio-economic processes and the study of medieval landscapes, religious culture and society, gender, ritual, institutional history, political ideology and discourse, DH-applications and development, and the Burgundian state.