The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the ...read more
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more
FLEPOSTORE is a Ghent University based Flemish reference collection for researchers and students working in archaeology, geology and cultural heritage studies. The collection offers an online open access platform and ...read more
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the poetical features of the ...read more
This doctoral thesis aims to explore the literary expression of the emotions of compunction (κατάνυξις) and repentance in the so-called katanyktic poems from the middle and late Byzantine period. These are personal poems of a penitentialnature that were performed and chanted in ...read more
The cluster “Multicultural Dunhuang: Manuscripts and Paintings” examines the connections between Dunhuang manuscripts and paintings, particularly during the tenth century. A central aim of the project is to bring together ...read more
Multidisciplinary and diacronich project which aim is to reconstruct the physical evolution of the landscape around Ravenna (Italy) since the Roman Age until today and how this influenced the human ...read more
The principal aim of this research project is to compare the predominant concepts of the Ottoman and Burgundian political discourse in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Even though reciprocal ...read more
The practice of divination in Buddhism traces its roots to India. However, the mutual engagements between medieval Chinese Buddhism and the practice of divination were deeper than the case in ...read more