Projects

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MPP. Mamluk prosopography project. From a project-specific database to an open access digital humanities database for prosopographical research of late medieval Syro-Egyptian elites and networks

2016

The Mamluk Prosopography Project (MPP) is an open access digital humanities database for the study of elite social groups, networks and social/cultural practice in the Late Medieval Syro-Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate ...read more
15th Century
Arabic
Computational methods
Digital humanities
History
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Prosopography
Quantitative
Relational database
Web resource
Novel saints. From antiquity to western romance

2016

Research interests: (1) Troy literature from Homer over imperial times towards the Middle Ages; (2) western romances "on the fringe" between Knight and Saint; and (3) heroic characterization.read more
Antiquity
French
Greek
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Southern Europe
St-Brendan
Western Europe
Latin to Greek. The latinity of the ancient Greek love novel

2016

While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding ...read more
Antiquity
Greek
Latin
Literary studies
Polyphony of a late antique christian poet. The Armenian reception of Jacob of Serugh and his writings

2016

Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Antiquity
Area studies
Armenian studies
Asia
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Field research
History
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Linguistics
Literary studies
Manuscript studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Oriental languages
Religion
Southern Europe
Syriac studies
Western Europe
Screaming, Hushing, Singing, Fumbling. Lyricization of Dutch and Flemish Prose in the Long Sixties (1960-1975)

2016

This project examines the functions of lyrical traits that are intensified in Dutch and Flemish prose between 1955 and 1975. After a period of post-war reconstruction, the sixties mark an era ...read more
Literary studies
The configuration of the Spanish poetic pattern after the transition times. Literary, cultural, and social relations

2016

This project corresponds to a consistent continuation of one previous: “La configuración del patrón poético español tras la Guerra Civil: relaciones literarias, culturales y sociales”, with reference FFI2013-44041-P (01/01/2014-31/12/2016). The ...read more
Literary studies
Intimacy in contemporary Chilean and Argentinean narrative

2016

The project examines how contemporary Chilean and Argentinian writers and filmmakers imagine new forms of human interaction and resistance in everyday life, by focussing on how they represent intimate relationships ...read more
Gender
History
Literary studies
Translation policy and practice regarding Flemish translated fiction in Nazi Germany

2016

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History
Literary studies
Translation Studies
A study of idiomatic phrases in medieval Chán texts

2016

In this Joint PhD project (Sichuan University / Ghent University) the focus is on Chan (Zen) Buddhist phrases in texts of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty periods, as ...read more
Linguistics
Literary studies
Religion
The relationship between Yongming poetic style and politics in the Yongming era

2016

This study will make a new interpretation of the 'Yongming poetic style' poems from a political perspective and argues that these poems are not a reaction to "a peaceful flourishing ...read more
Asia
Chinese
Chinese poetry
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Literary studies
Medieval Chinese
Philosophy
Politic and literature
Religion

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