In the summer of 1566, Calvinist iconoclasts attacked churches all over the Low Countries. They destroyed religious sculptures, paintings and cult objects. Essentially, the Beeldenstorm was a physical reaction of ...read more
The aim of this project is an analysis of how media, “multimedia” in particular, functioned in a sixteenth-century local context. By doing so this project will offer a methodologically innovative ...read more
Frequent yet unpredictable harvest failures were a notorious aspect of pre-modern agriculture, dependent as farming was on the vagaries of the climate. Cities were particularly vulnerable in such situations, as ...read more
This research deals with the semantic and syntactic functions, and the contextualized usages of tense and aspect expressions in early Chinese Buddhist literature translated from Indic languages before the fifth ...read more
This PhD studies the reception of the Dharmaguptakavinaya in Medieval China. The focus lies on the most influential master, master Daoxuan, and his (1) relation to the imperial court, and ...read more
This study will be the first about the Roman tribunate of the plebs that spans its entire history in the Republic and Empire chronologically since Niccolini’s 1932 Il tribunato della ...read more
This project will analyze the Ancient Greek discourse markers gar, oun and de in three fourth-century texts - two of them argumentative (Basil the Great's Hexaemeron and Gregory of Nazianzen's Invectives against ...read more
The project explores Japanese interpretations of the culture and philosophy of the European Renaissance. Spanning the history of Japanese historiography on this topic - from the Meiji Restoration to the ...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