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
This network funding will increase opportunities for scholarly engagement in a number of ways. Postdoctoral fellows will be employed to increase the offerings of courses related to Buddhism, and eminent ...read more
The core of the dissertation concerns the first critical edition of the Old Church Slavonic translation of the Passio Theclae or passion of Saint Thecla, also known as the originally apocryphal ...read more
Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
This project aims to investigate the way in which astrological knowledge practices are used in scientific, historiographical and eschatological texts in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century Syro-Egyptian Mamlūk ...read more
The Mamluk Prosopography Project (MPP) is an open access digital humanities database for the study of elite social groups, networks and social/cultural practice in the Late Medieval Syro-Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate ...read more
Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
This project investigates how changing socio-economic relations within Bruges and Mechlin had an impact on the socio-professional topography of both cities during the transition period between the Late Middle Ages ...read more
In A Mirror for the Sultan: State Ideology in the Early Ottoman Chronicles, 1410-1502, Dr Kaçar studies the earliest Ottoman chronicles, written in the fifteenth century.