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
This research aimed to contribute to the study of daily life in medieval and early modern Cistercian nunneries. Clairefontaine serves as classic example of a 13th century Cistercian nunnery foundation ...read more
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