From the late twelfth and early thirteenth century onwards, against the backdrop of demographic growth and urbanization, a growing number of laypeople started to pursue a religious life without actually ...read more
This project studies early modern urban discourses on sodomy in the Southern Netherlands. Sodomy was considered as a crime against nature whose origins could be traced to the biblical cities ...read more
This research project examines a series of ‘Spanish’ epic poems written in the wake of the battle of Lepanto (1571). It explores the representation of the cultural Other in these ...read more
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
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
Since the commercialisation of archaeology in Flanders, the sector has experienced a surge in the acquisition of archaeological data. Despite this exponentially growing data set, our knowledge about the early ...read more
In the study of Middle Dutch literature, the key question of authorship and its contemporary interpretations has rarely been asked, probably because most texts were handed down anonymously. However, through ...read more
Throughout Hindu imagery, we are confronted with demons dying at the hands of merciless goddesses. From the pan-Indian to the local level, this battle of the eternal adversaries endures, albeit ...read more