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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
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
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
Bhaiṣajyaguru. Iconography and rituals of the medicine Buddha across Asia

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
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
iDig for Thorikos. Operationalization of the Thorikos legacy data collection

2021

This project aims at the operationalization of the legacy data collection of the Thorikos Archaeological Research Project (1960 - present), especially those of the ancient Theatre, within the innovative iDig ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
History
Mediterranean Archaeology
Southern Europe
The Nilgiri archaeological project. Culture and environment in the upland forests of South India from antiquity to early modernity

2021

Indian upland forest-dwellers – like many other indigenous communities around the globe – are under threat from resource extraction, agricultural development and de-forestation as are the material remains of their ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Asia
Field research
Forest-dwellers
History
Language and text analysis
Middle Ages
Nilgiri Mountains
South India
Surveys
Upland Forests
Byzantine scholia on historians and the literature of marginalia. Reading and writing practices in the margins of medieval Greek manuscripts

2021

The margins of medieval Greek manuscripts are often filled with annotations of all sorts, from systematic commentaries to occasional reactions of readers. This project aims to study Byzantine marginal texts ...read more
Antiquity
Greek
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Mountains, mobility and memory

2021

The Apennine mountain chain in Italy is often described as a crossroads of cultures during the pre-Roman Metal Ages (ca. 3000-300 BC), but archaeologists know little about how, why and ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Field research
Geographic and map based
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Southern Europe
Surveys
Wooden archaeological artifacts from Flanders from the prehistory till modern times

2021

Wood is the most important renewable raw material throughout human history. However, wooden archaeological objects are rarely studied and little is known on (pre)historic use of wood, compared to other ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)

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