Projects

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Building on the edge of the empire. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire

2022

Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Comparative
English
Geographic and map based
Late Antiquity
Western Europe
Late or too late? Old age in the late Latin elegies of Maximianus (6th c. AD)

2022

This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more
Comparative
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary Ageing Studies
Literary studies
Southern Europe
Western Europe
The making of the second sophistic. Literary periodization as an intellectual and cultural construct

2022

The aim of the research is to trace the history of the concept of the “Second Sophistic”. This label is broadly assigned to an intellectual movement involving Greek-speaking intellectuals in ...read more
19th Century
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
French
German
Greek
History
History of scholarship
Imperial literature
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Philosophy
Second Sophistic literature
Monstrosity in Claudian

2022

The imagery and rhetoric of monstrosity is conspicuous in Claudian’s poems. The poet has composed two verse accounts of the Gigantomachy, one fragmentary in Greek and one incomplete in Latin; ...read more
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Under pressure. The impact of socio-economic and institutional dynamics on the late Roman aristocracy (565-641)

2022

This research studies the changes in the late-Roman aristocracy from 565 to 641. In this period the imperial elite lost importance to the provincial one. The base of this study ...read more
History
Late Antiquity
Buddhism in Turfan around the 5th century

2022

My PhD research project focuses on the circulation and practice of Buddhism in Turfan around the 5th century. I am interested in how Buddhism in the region was formed/re-formed by ...read more
Area studies
Asia
Buddhism
Chinese
Field research
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Religion
Sanskrit
Turfan
Bhaiṣajyaguru: Iconography and Rituals of Medicine Buddha between East and North-western India and Tibet

2022

This research aims to comprehensively study the iconography of Bhaiṣajyaguru, as a medium to underscore the cross-pollination of religions and beliefs shaping an iconographic paradigm across Central Asia, India, and ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Art
Asia
Chinese
Field research
Hindi
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Philosophy
Religion
Sanskrit
Nothing but the truth? Rhetoric and fictionality in Ancient Greek and Latin novels

2022

Most ancient Greek and Latin novels contain trial-scenes made of ingredients similar to modern-day legal drama series, such as emotionally-charged testimonies, wrathful confrontations and sidebar talks; and during the adversarial debates, ...read more
Ancient novel
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
Greek
Greek novels
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Latin novels
Literary studies
Narratology
Coming after. Late antique ecopoetics

2022

Over the course of the 4th to the 6th centuries, the ancient world was coming to its end in the midst of massive change: the establishment of Christianity, alterations in ...read more
Contemporary
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Evangelists and epigones. Sanskrit adaptations of Mahābhārata by Jains in 13th-century Gujarāt

2021

Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
Antiquity
Asia
Comparative
History
Jainism
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Literary history
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Religion
Religious identity
Sanskrit
Sanskrit literature