Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more
The project aims to explore further the notion of Linguistic Citizenship as a means of understanding and promoting more participation and capturing the experiences, interests and concerns of the disadvantaged ...read more
This project studies the logic of constructing cosmopolitan subjectivity in a selection of plays written by immigrant artists and plays written about migration since 2000. Specifically, it focuses on plays ...read more
This research project considers thirteenth-century burghership within specific social tensions which characterized this century. Flemish urban societies in the thirteenth century were subjected to profound transition in economic, political, social ...read more
Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
This project studies the relation between early-nineteenth-century British periodicals and the rise of the credit economy. It argues that leading contemporaneous periodicals fostered a cultural acceptance of the new economic ...read more
This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more
This project aims to study the functional range and the alternating uses of four types of presentational constructions (prosodic inversion, syntactic inversion, syntactic inversion with filler insertion and syntactic split) in ...read more
During the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, Flemings fought as mercenaries in the Norman armies. Little is known about the Flemings who, following the Norman-Conquest, settled in the ...read more