This project deals with art documentaries in the 1940s and 1950s, in particular the works by two filmmakers and art historians: Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. It investigates how ...read more
In recent years, the Belgian colonial past and its contemporary legacies have increasingly become the subject of a polarized public debate. Based on my on-going BOF research project, the proposed ...read more
Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
Market buildings, that is, one-, two- or three-storied colonnaded porticoes with attached outbuildings, generally containing multiple workshops, storage spaces and other facilities and located on or near the city’s central ...read more
This project presents a new interpretation of the functioning of the late antique state and society (4th-5th c. A.D.). Long neglected, Late Antiquity is now a blooming field of research ...read more
Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more
During the Middle Ages, the metropolis of Bruges thrived through its oversea trade. A large tidal inlet – called Zwin – provided a navigable passage from the North Sea, ...read more
Singing Communities investigated how people engaged through song and singing in political communities of the Dutch revolutionary period. These revolutionary years at the end of the eighteenth century were a period ...read more
Due to large scale electrification, demand for copper rose exponentially at the end of the 19th century. New copper resources were found across the world, particularly South America and ...read more