Hugo Grotius is best known as a legal scholar (Mare liberum, De iure belli ac pacis) and as a politician in Oldenbarnevelt's entourage. He was also interested in philology (he ...read more
This project aims to reveal the connections between linguistic patterns and text-historical developments in a corpus of metrical paratexts in Byzantine manuscripts, situating these connections in the historical context of ...read more
Mensen zijn gelijk voor de wet. Dit principe is stevig verankerd in de juridische doctrine van de Verlichting en zodoende ook in de liberale Belgische grondwet. De praktijk blijkt echter ...read more
This project approaches exclusionary practices in current academic historiographies of post-1970 feminisms in Belgium as a mirror for power dynamics in that past itself. The remembrance of this past as straight ...read more
The GCND will be the first corpus of spoken Dutch dialects. It aims at making accessible a unique collection of dialect recordings from 768 places in Belgium, France and the south of the Netherlands, ...read more
The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more
This project challenges the established chronology of the Counter-Reformation by investigating Catholic investments in material culture in the Low Countries in the transitional period from c. 1535 to c. 1585. ...read more
Since the Great Recession of 2007, research on the causes of economic inequality has been at the centre of both societal and academic debates, also among historians. Whereas most scholars ...read more
The concept of collective government in the Middle Ages is associated primarily with urban contexts, while lords are usually understood as exercising sole power over their individual rural domains. However, ...read more
This project seeks to rethink the history of modern Chinese thought by providing the first ever study of the academic discipline of “ethnic minority philosophies” in the People’s Republic of ...read more