Projects

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Women governing the act of writing. The princesses of Burgundy and Savoie (1470-1550)

2021

Whether as a patron, recipient or reader, the literate princess of the 15th and 16th centuries has been studied until now almost exclusively in her receiving role of literary culture. ...read more
History
Literary studies
'Whetstones' on the cutting edge. Understanding the cultural biography of Roman and medieval macrolithic tools through the application of use-wear analysis. From domestic and agricultural activities to specialized craft productions

2021

The material culture study of historic macro-lithic tools has been ignored for a long time. Traditionally, lithic studies have mainly been restricted to the investigation of pre- and proto-historic artefacts, ...read more
Archaeology
History
Miracle or magic? The figure of the magos in Byzantine hagiography. A study of the corpus

2021

In this project, I study the corpus of Byzantine hagiographies that feature a 'magos' (or magician). The goal is to produce an inventory of all hagiographical narratives in Greek which feature ...read more
History
Interculturalism
Literary studies
Religion
The road to Alexandria. The sensation of landscapes in European travel writing, 1919-1939

2021

Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual
‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding
neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...read more
History
Literary studies
The Nilgiri archaeological project. Culture and environment in the upland forests of South India from antiquity to early modernity

2021

Indian upland forest-dwellers – like many other indigenous communities around the globe – are under threat from resource extraction, agricultural development and de-forestation as are the material remains of their ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Asia
Field research
Forest-dwellers
History
Language and text analysis
Middle Ages
Nilgiri Mountains
South India
Surveys
Upland Forests
Farms, villages, and open fields. Settlement and landscape developments between Scheldt and Dender during the middle ages

2021

The current landscape, and many of the villages and cities located in it, have deep historical roots. Research by generations of historians, archaeologists and linguist points foremost to the importance ...read more
Archaeology
Area studies
History
Unwanted nature. The persecution of nuisance animals in Flanders and Brabant during the medieval and early modern era, 1400-1600

2021

This project examines attempts to exterminate 'nuisance animals', species that are considered harmful to human interests, in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the fifteenth and ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
Belgium
History
Middle Ages
Western Europe
Altered in style. A socio-cultural study of the 1550 repaint campaign of the Ghent Altarpiece

2021

The Ghent Altarpiece, a late-medieval painting by the Van Eyck brothers, was repainted in 1550. The current conservation treatment of the altarpiece indicates that extensive representational modifications were made, which ...read more
Art
History
Philosophy
Religion
Flanders, Norway, and Denmark. Relations and intertextual exchanges in the high middle ages

2021

The project FLANDRIA (Flanders, Norway, and Denmark: Relations and Intertextual Exchanges in the High Middle Ages (ca. 1080-1383)) examines the contact between Flanders, Norway, and Denmark in the High Middle ...read more
History
Universal historiography and millenarian kingship in late medieval Egypt and Syria. The third reign of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the discourse of history

2021

This project investigates a corpus of historiographical texts, predominantely universal chronicles, composed by four historians closely related to the court of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Nuwayrī, Ibn ...read more
Africa
Arabic
History
Language and text analysis
Middle Ages
Middle East

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