In the medieval Low Countries, the donating of devotional objects to churches and founding of liturgical ceremonies were directly linked with remembrance. The memories of ancestors remained alive through the church ...read more
This project concerns the practice of excluding women or men from religious sites and religious practices in Japan, and the complex interconnections among religion, traditions, and cultural heritage in the ...read more
Modern scholarship has examined political violence in the Late Roman Empire (late fourth to early sixth centuries CE) primarily as the result of mass migration processes, or as the self-evident ...read more
The Late Glacial (c. 12,700-9700 cal BC) is the final stage of the Pleistocene before the current warm Holocene and comprises several warm (e.g. Allerød) and cold (e.g. Younger Dryas) ...read more
Italy entered World War 2 on 10 June 1940 following the declaration of war by Benito Mussolini. As a nation rich of cultural, historical and archaeological heritage, Italy urged to ...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
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to work on ‘directed evolution’. The latter is not a new theory or discovery, but a technique to let natural selection shape ...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