Stylometry, a subfield of Digital Humanities, offers new methods for segregating different writing styles. So far, stylometry has been especially popular in authorship attribution studies. This project will approach issues ...read more
In the four decades before the First World War, the world increasingly globalized. A highly connected economy integrated distant parts of the world into one global market. Belgium, a young ...read more
This PhD project charts the transformation of the artistic male nude in fin-de-siècle Belgium, in light of the changing views of masculinity and male sociability which are often said to ...read more
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