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
This project proposes a diachronic comparative research, based on a varied corpus of narratives and treatises, into the establishment, evolution and effectiveness of medieval ideals of masculinity in monastic and ...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
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
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
Research into the role of the late medieval culture of Memoria in the strengthening of religious communal life in the southern Low Countries (1350-1550), with a special focus on communities ...read more
Research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), joining scholars from the universities of Groningen, Ghent, Amsterdam (VU), Utrecht, Tilburg, and Leuven and aiming at elaborating new ...read more
This research project aimed at studying the Roman business world by identifying the people involved in organizing trade and transport. To this purpose, a database comprising all Roman merchants and ...read more