Pottery from the Scheldt basin will be analyzed using a range of mass spectrometric methods. The pottery has been dated to the late 6th and 5th millennium BC, indicating that it ...read more
The late-5th to 3rd millennium BC saw complex dynamics in nomadic and settled lifestyles in the semi-arid and arid steppe regions of Syria and Jordan, when large, often fortified cities emerged ...read more
Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
This PhD project is situated in the study of gender and religion, and takes the lives of (young) Roman Catholic women as a starting point in order to examine how ...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 aim of my research is to bridge the gap between research into so-called translation universals (explicitation, implicitation, interference and shining-through) in the domain of corpus translation studies and, on ...read more
Schools and teachers around the world are facing a growing diversity and increasing complexity (social inequality, labeling, …). In the past, pupils’ assignments to classrooms and schools have rather fostered ...read more
This project aims to investigate the development of non-canonical case marking of subjects/subject-likes, throughout the history of the Germanic languages, contributing with data from Germanic vernaculars. Lexical semantic verb classes ...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
Over the years, historians of early modern Europe have studied religious identities as inflexible constructs, claiming that people perceived one another as either fellow believers or heretic dissidents. By drawing ...read more