HISSTER aims to generate and develop a central database of historical statistics concerning Belgian mortality available at the local level since 1830. While the 20th century was the main focus ...read more
Scholars are becoming increasingly aware that the economic relevance of Roman professional associations as well was more important than so far assumed. Few data indicate that they acted as regulatory ...read more
With its 100th anniversary the First World War has received renewed attention in Belgium at universities, research centers, cultural and heritage institutions alike. Our knowledge and understanding of the great, ...read more
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) prospection is, along with magnetometer prospection, earth resistance survey and prospection with sensors based on electromagnetic induction, one of the most widely used geophysical prospection techniques ...read more
This research project focusses on the changing relationship between the police and the public in Antwerp between 1840 and 1914. In the second half of the nineteenth century the port ...read more
Alignment and argument structure lies at the heart of all current theoretical models in linguistics, both syntactic models and research within typology. In spite of that, no large-scale comprehensive study ...read more
Immigrant children’s poor school results are often linked to their linguistic background. More traditional measurements which compare groups of non-native and native speakers pose serious limitations and result ...read more
According to historical anthropometry, average height is one of the best measures to study well-being of a society. Since height is mainly an indicator of social and economic conditions during ...read more
This research project looks at consumer representation in the postwar period. It investigates how social movements put their grievances on behalf of the consumer on the table, in the context ...read more
This dissertation tells the story of the collections of artists and artisans in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. Based on archival research of probate inventories, it turns out that many artists and ...read more