Starting from the truism that the development of the early Buddhist monastic community evolved in dialogue with its wider North-Indian contexts, this PhD questions which precepts, terminology, narrative elements and ...read more
Lusoga (JE16) is a largely undocumented Great Lakes Bantu language and only primers and basic grammatical descriptions were available at the beginning of this study. At the time, the existing ...read more
In A Mirror for the Sultan: State Ideology in the Early Ottoman Chronicles, 1410-1502, Dr Kaçar studies the earliest Ottoman chronicles, written in the fifteenth century.
My dissertation consists of a metaphilosophical investigation into the project of defining art. Many deem this project to be both impossible and futile. My two main objectives were: (1) to ...read more
The present research has three aims. The first is to explore how far extant monastic institutions maintain a sense of continuity vis-à-vis the three above-mentioned historical codices, in both theory ...read more
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
Traditionally, social mobility has been considered a characteristic feature of modern Western meritocratic societies, whereas pre-industrial societies have been categorized as static, hierarchical and rigid. This opinion, clearly a legacy ...read more
The project focuses on the idea of 'nation' at the turn of the twentieth century, as discussed by prominent Chinese politicians/historians/philosophers.read more
The Fengzeng system is an important part of the ancient Chinese bureaucratic system. However, until now, academic research on this topic has remained scarce. PhD student Sun Jian selected it ...read more