This project aims to examine the changes in the Benedictines’ ideology of property and poverty in twelfth-century Normandy. Traditional research attributes these changes to Cistercian criticism, but this project will ...read more
The project will investigate the phenomenon of transnationalism in the late 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the cultural exchange between Argentina and Belgium and the subsequent cross-border activities of ...read more
The aim of this research project is to shed light on the development of the Miaphysite movement through a socio-historical lens, filling a crucial gap in the current scholarly discourse. ...read more
The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is ...read more
This project proposes to study city views from Ghent, created between c. 1500 and c. 1900, to trace long-term developments in the representation of the urban built environment. The case ...read more
Networking in the past: the role of social capital in the success of the neoclassical painter and educator François-Joseph Navez (1787-
1869) in nascent Belgiumread more
OTTOWAQF will examine how religious foundations shaped state building in the Ottoman Empire during a crucial period between 1450 and 1650. Religious foundations controlled vast swaths of land and property ...read more
Research on the early development of urban communities in Western Europe has long been determined by a political and institutional approach of the liberties, laws and customs these communities were ...read more
From the late fourteenth century onwards, collegiate chapters in the Meuse-Rhine region started to coordinate their relics displays. Every seven years they put their relics on display in July, thus ...read more
This research project strives to fill the research gaps concerning three bodily-related controversies (baring the right shoulder, sitting in a leisurely position while eating, and shaving the hair) discussed inside Buddhist ...read more