This project investigates how changing socio-economic relations within Bruges and Mechlin had an impact on the socio-professional topography of both cities during the transition period between the Late Middle Ages ...read more
This project examines the functions of lyrical traits that are intensified in Dutch and Flemish prose between 1955 and 1975. After a period of post-war reconstruction, the sixties mark an era ...read more
This project focusses on the socialization of, and interaction between, two non-elite groups in the Roman world: freed slaves and freeborn members of the urban ‘middle class’. Scholarly interest in ...read more
This project corresponds to a consistent continuation of one previous: “La configuración del patrón poético español tras la Guerra Civil: relaciones literarias, culturales y sociales”, with reference FFI2013-44041-P (01/01/2014-31/12/2016). The ...read more
In this study we look into the development of English knowledge of Flemish children who are exposed to English long before they start their formal L2 English instruction. We will ...read more
This project pursues a new interpretation of state formation in Western Europe between 1300 and 1600. This period is considered as the key phase in the genesis of the modern ...read more
As a crossroads between three continents, the Middle East has always been a complex contact zone for intercultural relations. Dating back to the Bronze Age, when the first 'international' contacts ...read more
Whereas computers can reliably process text documents in terms of their factual content (e.g. for classifying them into topics, searching or extracting information from them), they have difficulty interpreting opinions, ...read more
The Khoisan of Southern Africa have faced violent dispossession and assimilation alongside several others into the racial group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. Many today no longer consider the Khoisan ...read more