The Romans were the first to introduce communal bathing habits in northern Gaul (modern Belgium, Northern France and part of the Netherlands). These highly technological and richly decorated bathhouses were ...read more
Multidisciplinary and diacronich project which aim is to reconstruct the physical evolution of the landscape around Ravenna (Italy) since the Roman Age until today and how this influenced the human ...read more
This five-year project aims to generate a paradigm shift in the understanding of Graeco-Roman and Late Antique communication. Non-literary, ‘documentary’ texts from Ancient Egypt such as letters, petitions and contracts ...read more
Over the past fifty years, funding agencies have come to occupy a central place in academic knowledge-production. As distributors of money, power, and prestige, funding agencies can nowadays change fields, ...read more
If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along ...read more
Although reading comprehension skills are indispensable in the 21st century, many upper elementary students unfortunately struggle with it. Moreover, the reading strategy use and autonomous reading motivation of many upper ...read more
In the years surrounding the Meiji Restoration (1868), the suppression of Buddhism in favour of a Shinto-based ideology propelled Buddhist thinkers into a reactionary movement aimed at regaining a prominent ...read more
In the civitas Menapiorum (northern France, Belgium and the SW part of the Netherlands), a significant number of epigraphic (e.g. salinatores-inscriptions, Nehalennia-altars) and archaeological sources point to the presence of ...read more
Causal selection refers to the common practice of singling out one cause among all known causes of some event, and calling it "the" cause. Suppose that a fire breaks ...read more
Studying the phenotypic evolution of organisms in terms of populations of genes and genotypes, the Modern Synthesis (MS) conceptualizes biological evolution in terms of 'inter-organismal' interactions among genes sitting in ...read more