Projects

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Lordship as corporative government across late medieval France

2020

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
14th century
15th century
Comparative
France
French
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Lordship
Middle Ages
Power
Quantitative
Western Europe
PaPiOM. Patterns in pitch organization in music

2020

Music is present in every culture in the world. We as a species seem to have an urge to make music. While the diversity of music cultures around the world ...read more
Cross-cultural musicology
Music
Family making in India through adoption or reproductive technology. An interdisciplinary investigation of preference of Indian couples experiencing infertility regarding means of family formation

2020

The goal of this research project is to understand the socio-cultural and regulatory factors influencing preference of married couples in India suffering from infertility or subfertility regarding means of family formation. ...read more
Miracle or magic? The figure of the 'magos' in Byzantine hagiography

2020

What is the difference between magic and miracle? Scholars today believe that it is not possible to reach clear definitions of ‘magic’ and ‘miracle’ capable of answering that question: theoretically, ...read more
Eastern Europe
Greek
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Southern Europe
MUTUALIST. Machine translation with user-specific training and user-specific adaptation for literary texts. Impact on individual style in translation

2020

In the translation industry, improving machine translation (MT) output by post-editing is commonly used to increase productivity and consistency. However, some research showed that post-editing leads to homogenization and normalization. ...read more
Las vanguardistas. Spanish women poets and the international avant-garde, 1910-1936

2020

The early twentieth century saw the emergence of an avant-garde culture, which marked a turning point in the literary history of Spain. Until recently, the dominant approach to Spanish vanguard ...read more
Calliope's daughters. Women, epic, and occasional poetry in the early modern Ibero-American world, 1556-1756

2020

Epic poetry has traditionally been considered a male genre, written by and for men. This project seeks to contest this view by drawing attention to a corpus of epic poetry ...read more
Economic inequality on the eve of the late medieval crisis. Two regions compared, Tuscany and Northern France, c.1295-c.1320

2020

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
Black Death
Comparative
Crisis of Late Middle Ages
Economic Inequality
French
History
Italian
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
Cross-channel stylistic exchanges. A stylometric approach to the impact of mobility and multilingualism on medieval Latin literature, 1000–1150

2020

This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
Cracking the code to the letterbox. Phonological awareness and reading in deaf children

2020

The proposed pioneering project will investigate the relationships between reading, Flemish Sign Language (VGT) sign phonological awareness, fingerspelling, and speechreading. To this day the impact of these phonological skills on the reading development of Flemish ...read more

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