Cappadocian is a mixed language which is diachronically descended from Greek but has borrowed heavily from Turkish with which it has been in contact for eight centuries. From ...read more
Cappadocian is a mixed language which is diachronically descended from Greek but has borrowed heavily from Turkish with which it has been in contact for eight centuries. From ...read more
This interdisciplinary and multiresearcher project focuses on the transcultural dynamics in the creation, transmission, and reconfiguration of knowledge on childbirth, pregnancy, and women's health in premodern China, Korea, and Japan, ...read more
Cappadocian is a mixed language which is diachronically descended from Greek but has borrowed heavily from Turkish with which it has been in contact for eight centuries. From a typological ...read more
Combining intellectual history with material philology, this project studies the authority attributed to histories in Syriac excerpt collections (6-10th c). It uses unstudied material to analyse the intertwining of identity ...read more
The Roman empire in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 A.D.) was long seen as an autocratic state where the emperor took all decisions. Recent studies have emphasized that many imperial laws ...read more
What is the difference between magic and miracle? Scholars today believe that it is not possible to reach clear definitions of ‘magic’ and ‘miracle’ capable of answering that question: theoretically, ...read more