This project examines the development of Benedictine congregational structures in the Reims archdiocese throughout the later twelfth and early thirteenth century by relying on a bottom-up perspective. So far, historical ...read more
Through multifactorial corpus investigations in original and translated Dutch, the project addresses the effects of register variation on grammatical choices, focusing on alternations where one of the alternatives is ...read more
Research interests: (1) Troy literature from Homer over imperial times towards the Middle Ages; (2) western romances "on the fringe" between Knight and Saint; and (3) heroic characterization.read more
What is the potential of not-understanding (Nichtverstehen) for a critique of culture and subversive aesthetic strategies? How do forms of situational representation actualize this potential? These questions are addressed by ...read more
The worlds of theatre is regarded the start with the ritual ceremony similar to a dialogue with God. Early theatre tries to enter into a relationship with God, during the ...read more
Nearly all countries know a number of memoir-writings, mostly political leaders explaining their role in public life. It is also quite commonplace for authors engaged in writing literary works to ...read more
"Repertoires of Slavery", funded by FWO, charted the erratic ideological terrain of abolitionism through the lens of white-produced theater in the Netherlands in a period rife with seething debates over race, ...read more
While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding ...read more
This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized ...read more
[Project funded by the Austrian Wissenschaftsfonds (Lise Meitner-Fellowship) and carried out at the University of Vienna. This is an extension of the project "Profiling the Prince's Servants", which is temporarily ...read more