Research into the role of the late medieval culture of Memoria in the strengthening of religious communal life in the southern Low Countries (1350-1550), with a special focus on communities ...read more
Research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), joining scholars from the universities of Groningen, Ghent, Amsterdam (VU), Utrecht, Tilburg, and Leuven and aiming at elaborating new ...read more
This research project aimed at studying the Roman business world by identifying the people involved in organizing trade and transport. To this purpose, a database comprising all Roman merchants and ...read more
The involvement of rural populations in market activities in the past is still debated. Were people lured into the market by the prospect of a better lifestyle, or pushed into ...read more
The aim of the research project is to assess the role of unwritten forms of communication -with due regard to oral media - in monastic communities between the tenth and ...read more
This PhD project studies the political and economical history of Chinese Buddhism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (mainly 5th century).read more
In de zomer van 1561 werd door de Antwerpse rederijkerskamer De Violieren de grootste literaire manifestatie uit de geschiedenis van de Nederlanden georganiseerd. Dit ‘landjuweel’ is al 450 jaar lang ...read more
In 1448 Pieter Bladelin, treasurer of the Dukes of Burgundy (Filips the Good and Charles the Bad) and treasurer of the Order of the Golden Fleece, started building the town of ...read more
In this joint project between the departments of Languages and Cultures and the Department of Clinical chemistry, microbiology and immunology of Ghent university, the issue of the occurence of scurvy ...read more