Genealogies and chronicles are biased products which offer an indirect insight in specific political and ideological strategies. This project deals with the gendered representation of male and female rulers in ...read more
The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite ...read more
How did rural communities cope with the devastations of war in the pre-modern world? The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which pitched the maritime empire of Athens against the heavy infantry ...read more
This project aims to write the history of Roman family businesses and thereby to contribute to historical family firm research in the long run. The purpose is to analyze the ...read more
The project Poetry from the margins. Literary, linguistic, philological and cultural-historical analysis of a new corpus of Byzantine book epigrams (800-1453)bid builds on a previous project of the same team, funded ...read more
While the importance of ‘economic’ (i.e. en masse) copying by early 16th-century Netherlandish masters is widely accepted by art historians, the contribution of ‘creative’ copying to the art practice and theory before ...read more
This project examines how the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund have defined the relationship between human rights and peace. At first sight, the concepts of ...read more
Conceptions on how history should be taught in secondary education have changed profoundly in recent years. Teachers should now focus on the development of pupils' historical thinking, in contrast to ...read more
This research brings for the first time a critical historical analysis of one of the largest national military museums in the world, the Royal Military Museum in Brussels. With a ...read more
The proposed research aims to historicize the concept of sites of memory as places where the memory of a specific historical event (or a set of events) is anchored. This ...read more