This research aimed to contribute to the study of daily life in medieval and early modern Cistercian nunneries. Clairefontaine serves as classic example of a 13th century Cistercian nunnery foundation ...read more
The central topic of this PhD project is the representation of one specific Viking-age woman in medieval and early modern Icelandic literature over a period spanning roughly from the middle of the 12th century ...read more
Research into the role of the late medieval culture of Memoria in the strengthening of religious communal life in the southern Low Countries (1350-1550), with a special focus on communities ...read more
In spite of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror’s glorious assaults on, and Emperor Constantine XI’s heroic defence of the proud walls of Constantinople, the 1453 siege, conquest and fall of the ...read more
In de zomer van 1561 werd door de Antwerpse rederijkerskamer De Violieren de grootste literaire manifestatie uit de geschiedenis van de Nederlanden georganiseerd. Dit ‘landjuweel’ is al 450 jaar lang ...read more
In 1448 Pieter Bladelin, treasurer of the Dukes of Burgundy (Filips the Good and Charles the Bad) and treasurer of the Order of the Golden Fleece, started building the town of ...read more