Stylometry, a subfield of Digital Humanities, offers new methods for segregating different writing styles. So far, stylometry has been especially popular in authorship attribution studies. This project will approach issues ...read more
This project starts out from the vision books of Hildegard of Bingen, which present allegorical visions together with their exegesis. The project asks whether this use of allegorical creation could ...read more
This PhD project charts the transformation of the artistic male nude in fin-de-siècle Belgium, in light of the changing views of masculinity and male sociability which are often said to ...read more
The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite ...read more
How did rural communities cope with the devastations of war in the pre-modern world? The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which pitched the maritime empire of Athens against the heavy infantry ...read more
This project aims two major goals (1) to trace the formation of regional monastic communities and the degree of their integration within larger monastic–secular networks in Tang dynasty China, and ...read more
The PhD concerns repentance ceremonies in Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism and their link to the concept of karma. Apart from comparing relevant vinaya texts related to repentance ceremonies, the PhD also ...read more
While the importance of ‘economic’ (i.e. en masse) copying by early 16th-century Netherlandish masters is widely accepted by art historians, the contribution of ‘creative’ copying to the art practice and theory before ...read more
The project focuses on contact-related grammatical pattern changes in Belgian and NetherlandicDutch during two different stages in their recent history: (i) 19th century Belgian Dutch, which washeavily exposed to French, ...read more
Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more