Projects

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The Cistern 1 ergasterion in macrosquare A’51

2010

Between 2010 and 2012, Ghent University and Utrecht University investigated the largest cistern in Thorikos and its immediate surroundings: Cistern No. 1. Whereas most cisterns in the Lavriotiki had been ...read more
The institutional organisation of Buddhist nunneries in Taiwan and mainland China. Past and present

2010

The present research has three aims. The first is to explore how far extant monastic institutions maintain a sense of continuity vis-à-vis the three above-mentioned historical codices, in both theory ...read more
Area studies
Asia
Buddhism
Contemporary
Far East
Field research
Gender
Language and text analysis
Oriental languages
Religion
The horizons of Guibert of Gembloux (1124/25-1214). Historical-anthropological research into the world of a Benedictine letter writer from the decades after the so-called 'crisis of cenobitism'

2009

Up to now, the Benedictine monk and abbot Guibert of Gembloux (c 1124-1214) has primarily inspired medievalists as the last secretary of Hildegard of Bingen, the famous Rhenish prophetess. However, ...read more
Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the central middle ages

2009

Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the High Middle Ages is a Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO, Belgium). Its aim is to coordinate and stimulate research on ...read more
Area studies
Comparative
Dutch
English
French
German
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Surveys
Western Europe
NIAS joint fellowship of Steven Vanderputten and Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveldt

2009

Joint fellowship at NIAS.read more
Dutch
English
French
German
History
Italian
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Western Europe
SMLC. Sources from the medieval low countries. A multiple database system for the launch of Diplomata Belgica and for a completely updated version of narrative sources

2009

Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC) will enable medievalists to gain integrated access to two different and completely up-to-date online data collections: (1) Diplomata Belgica, containing descriptions (and often ...read more
Dutch
French
German
History
Latin
Middle Ages
Western Europe
Layers of structure

2009

This project aims at studying language variation, both in terms of macrovariation (variation between languages and groups of languages) and microvariation (variation between variants of one language). For the work ...read more
Linguistics
Dialectloket

2009

www.dialectloket.be is a multimedia website about language variation in Dutch, developed at the Department of Linguistics (section Dutch) of Ghent University, by the staff of the Dictionary of the ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Belgium
Contemporary
Dialectology
Dutch
Field research
Geographic and map based
Linguistics
Surveys
Social mobility in classical Athens

2009

Traditionally, social mobility has been considered a characteristic feature of modern Western meritocratic societies, whereas pre-industrial societies have been categorized as static, hierarchical and rigid. This opinion, clearly a legacy ...read more
Antiquity
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Southern Europe
Ethnicity and sinicization. The theory of assimilative power in the making of the Chinese nation-state, 1900s-1920s

2009

The project focuses on the idea of 'nation' at the turn of the twentieth century, as discussed by prominent Chinese politicians/historians/philosophers.read more
19th Century
20th Century
Asia
China
Far East
History
Language and text analysis
Oriental languages