In 2012 the Historical Archaeology Research Group started a collaborative project with the Free University of Amsterdam in order to investigate the Late Roman Archaeology of the Low Countries. The ...read more
This project has the double aim of studying the methodological contribution to the early 20th century history of religions of Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) and of analyzing the impact of his ...read more
This project aims to explore the motivations behind the case alternation between accusative (ACC) and dative (DAT) after two-way prepositions in present-day German (PDG). Special attention goes to those instances ...read more
This research project thematizes reforms and their impact on the social embedding, self-image and social behaviour of monastic groups during the High Middle Ages (tenth-twelfth centuries). Parallel to, and to ...read more
This project focuses on the leadership of ‘second-generation reformers’ in monasteries from the central Middle Ages (10th-early 12th centuries) to investigate the phenomenon of monastic reform as a long-term process. ...read more
The significance of coastal and estuarine areas for understanding former human life and palaeolandscapes is nowadays recognized internationally. The large preservation potential of these sites, on the transition of the ...read more
This research project addresses the development of corporate identities in Benedictine monasteries situated in the bishopric of Liège in the late eleventh and twelfth century. This development can be uniquely studied through ...read more
The project deals with the interaction of gender, politics and the press in the nineteenth century, roughly from the Congress of Vienna until the revolutions of 1848. It analyses the occurrence ...read more
Historical evidence suggests that the medieval landscape was intensively exploited during the high medieval period. This was especially true in the county of Flanders due to the development of cities ...read more