Since the turn of the millennium, a number of European countries have introduced language and knowledge of society requirements for citizenship. In 2017, Norway followed the lead of other countries, ...read more
Gemapt' is a geotemporal platform for sharing, presenting and using digital heritage collections in function of a participatory heritage work. This project is developed with a focus on Ghent: 'Ghent ...read more
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the symbolic, cultural, and theatrical aspects of early modern diplomacy. However, the changed focus of New Diplomatic History has mostly neglected the lavish ...read more
This project concerns the development of a historical dialect database of the Flemish dialects for studying dialect syntax, based on the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen (RND). The concerned dataset is part ...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
This project offers the first dedicated study of female-authored satire in Britain during an era often hailed as the Golden Age of Satire (ca. 1670-1760). Scholars of the long eighteenth ...read more