Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this ...read more
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more
This project studies mass-elite relations in the Greek cities of the Roman empire by examining Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, a second-century AD collection of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen from classical ...read more
In "The Infinity of Lists", Umberto Eco contrasts two modes of artistic representation. One is bound to a definite aesthetic form. It conveys a comprehensive idea, closed on itself. The ...read more
The ever-increasing availability of information, made possible by the Internet today, transforms the way people perceive and acquire knowledge. This project maps the effects of this epistemological shift in the ...read more
Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather than by ...read more
This project examines a representative corpus of digital comics from a narratological perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the possibilities offered by the digital format. This includes reflecting on the forms ...read more
This project studies the letters and letter-collection of Basil, bishop of Caesarea (ca. 330-379 AD), as means for lobbying, persuasion, and self-presentation. While the letters of Basil have always been ...read more