As a spin-off of the Middelburg-project, this research examines the role the exchange of specific forms of material culture (Valencian floor-tiles and pottery, paintings…) played in the construction and ...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
The involvement of rural populations in market activities in the past is still debated. Were people lured into the market by the prospect of a better lifestyle, or pushed into ...read more
In spite of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror’s glorious assaults on, and Emperor Constantine XI’s heroic defence of the proud walls of Constantinople, the 1453 siege, conquest and fall of the ...read more
A study of language and culture contacts in the history of the Greek language, with particular attention to Greek in contact with Hebrew and Aramaic in the Hellenistic and Roman ...read more
During the Roman period, the northern parts of the Belgian provinces of East- and West-Flanders together with the Dutch province of Zeeland formed the northern parts of the so called ...read more
Studying the development of organization, morphology and function on farms built in the ‘local tradition’ can provide essential information from which the analysis of socio-economic processes under Roman influence. Starting ...read more
The 'Centre for diversity and learning' (CDL) (formerly Centre for Intercultural Education) is part of the MULTIPLES research group at Ghent University in Flanders, Belgium. The principal goal of the ...read more