The Ghent Database of Roman Guilds(+) will provide a tool for research into institutions for collective actions by professional groups. It will be: (1) a heuristic tool to find data on ...read more
Provincial assemblies were a widespread phenomenon in both the eastern and western provinces of the Roman Empire. Their official function was tending to the provincial imperial cult. Research on the ...read more
The project aims to study the literary works, published in the Russian emigration between 1917 and 1940, in which the October Revolution and the Civil War take up a central ...read more
Before the International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed, the American literary marketplace was saturated with unauthorized reprints of British texts. Neither British nor American authors had any legal claim ...read more
This PhD project, based at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Program for Slavic and East European Studies at Ghent University, examines the Kosova students’ movements between 1968 and 1999. ...read more
PhD student scholarship in the Erasmus Mundus WELCOME programme, granted to Mostafa Mahmoud Mohamed el-Shainy, September 2014-June 2015. The PhD was defended on January 14, 2017 at the South Valley ...read more
From the perspective of Intelligence Studies, Studies in Belgian Intelligence uses an interdisciplinary methodology to approach both past and present of Belgian intelligence, to identify the underlying factors that are ...read more
In the first half of the seventeenth century natural philosophers looking for alternatives to the then dominant Aristotelian physics often took simple material objects and contrivances to offer important lessons ...read more
This project will systematically relate scripting of rituals of conflict, reconciliation and social integration to societal developments in the Central Medieval West (tenth-twelfth centuries). So far, scholarship has been determined ...read more
This project focuses on the public behavior of the secular and ecclesiastical elites of the later tenth to early twelfth centuries to investigate the competitive aspects of the Peace of ...read more