This PhD thesis is part of the KongoKing project, an interdisciplinary research program using archaeology and historical linguistics in order to better understand the Kongo kingdom. Within this framework, this PhD ...read more
This PhD project which is part of the KongoKing project consists of an multi- and disciplinary approach to settlement and urbanism in the Inkisi valley (DRC) at the time of the ...read more
This PhD project which is part of the KongoKing project focusses on ceramics in the Kongo area from the 19th to 21st century through an approach combining ethnographical fieldwork on ...read more
'Factors of Production' was the central 6-year research program of the Roman Society Research Center to study the three classical production factors in the Roman world : Land & Natural ...read more
The first three years of the Roman Society Research Centre have been very succesful and have provided the institutional context for a succesful application for a Scientific Network about the ...read more
Slavery continues to be a popular and fruitful research topic in Classical Studies. Almost every period in history has known its own variety, yet for over two centuries Roman slavery ...read more
The textile industry was the largest economic sector in pre-industrial society (apart from food). Early-modern textile industry has accordingly received much attention from economic and social historians. Matters are different ...read more
This research project intends a structural analysis of business networks in Roman long-distance trade. While an integral part of economic history in other pre-industrial societies, the application of network theory ...read more
Investigation of the language of the later Medieval Greek (12th-16th centuries) vernacular romances composed in the decapentasyllabioc metre of the politikos stichos within the modern framework of information structure (most ...read more
Justice & Populations. The Belgian Experience in International is structured around 6 integrated work packages: 4 thematic work packages, in which different national and international partners intervene to examine transnational key aspects ...read more