Medieval urban space did not evolve in straightforward or linear ways. Depending on socioeconomic,political and symbolic interests of various actors, groups and institutions it wasappropriated, controlled, fragmented, recomposed, reorganized, reinvented ...read more
In the course of the eighteenth century, migration and poor relief became subjects of great concern to local, regional and central governments in the Southern Netherlands. Especially controversial was the ...read more
The latest developments in techno-sciences often find new forms of expression in art practices, situated at the border of art and science, combining insights from biological sciences, notably biotechnology and ...read more
This research project considers thirteenth-century burghership within specific social tensions which characterized this century. Flemish urban societies in the thirteenth century were subjected to profound transition in economic, political, social ...read more
This project studies the mainstream Russian émigré newsmagazine, Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (1924-1939), as a test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture first and foremost aspired to ...read more
The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more
Three different varieties of Greek used to be spoken in Cappadocia (Turkish Kapadokya) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s: Cappadocian, Pharasiot and Lycaonian Greek. From ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more
Over the years, historians of early modern Europe have studied religious identities as inflexible constructs, claiming that people perceived one another as either fellow believers or heretic dissidents. By drawing ...read more