This project is a collaborative effort of the Ancient History research group, the Royal Library of Belgium, and the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. It aims to build a database of ...read more
This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this ...read more
By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more
This dissertation investigates the significance, characteristics, evolution, and hermeneutics of the doctrine of “non-self” (Skt. anātman; Ch. wuwo 無我) in Ming Dynasty Buddhism, focusing on the influential monk Zibo Zhenke ...read more
Low-educated learners make up a large, yet vulnerable population in the world today (Unesco, 2004). Little is known about the second language acquisition process of this group of learners, but there ...read more
This study aims to construct language competence profiles specifically tailored for migrants employed in the tourism and care sectors, focusing on German as a foreign language. Subsequently, these profiles will ...read more
When we talk about Belgium during the Second World War, the eighteen-day campaign almost always comes to mind. However, it is frequently overlooked that war had already been raging across ...read more