This dissertation scrutinizes public legal art in the context of nineteenth-century Belgium. More specifically, it considers how government as well as political, legal, and administrative actors generated and used art ...read more
Daniele Dibello works on a doctoral project concerning the Venetian state formation in the mainland between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. To estimate the city-state experience's weight on the broader ...read more
The international research group ‘Transnational dynamics of social reform, 1840-1940’ consists of researchers from seven countries aims at opening new perspectives on the history of social reform and reform activism ...read more
This research project examines the textual history and literary characteristics of the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 (Collection of the Patriarchal Hall , K.1503), i.e., the earliest extant Chán history (chánshǐ 禪史), or "lamp ...read more
ITEMP is a Dutch-Belgian cooperation, involving four promotors and two PhD students. The project’s objective is not only to publish two PhD dissertations, but also to publish a combined article by ...read more
This project will investigate ideas about 'the people' and popular political participation in the works of a number of Greek intellectuals from the Roman Empire, viz. Plutarch of Chaeronea, Dio ...read more
This project aims to re-evaluate education in monastic contexts of 11th and 12th century Western Europe by relying on the concept of "communities of practice", a notion borrowed from the social sciences. ...read more
From the late twelfth and early thirteenth century onwards, against the backdrop of demographic growth and urbanization, a growing number of laypeople started to pursue a religious life without actually ...read more
Roman cities relied on privileged guilds to function. Craftsmen guilds (collegia fabri) took pride of place but remain much debated. We study their spread, membership, organization, influence and impact on ...read more
This project examines the communicative decisions of a high medieval institution under pressure. For centuries, Benedictine monks had enjoyed a virtual monopoly over institutionalized religious life in Europe. From the twelfth century ...read more