This project aims to study the administrative and political history of the city of Mons en Hainaut in the 14th and 15th centuries. The focus lies on the accounts of ...read more
The aim of this project is examine the influence of auditory (music vs. metronomic sequences) and social (real vs. virtual experimenter) factors on sensorimotor synchronization to identify the conditions that ...read more
This project aims to study the ideas, decisions, and influence of Maria Theresa’s main political advisors during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), chiefly with respect to foreign policy. ...read more
In contrast to the traditional narrative that Buddhism was transformed under the influence of Japan’s modernisation in the early Meiji period (1870s-1880s), this project will suggest that Buddhism was an ...read more
No region is more famous for the diversity of religious options open to women than the Southern Low Countries during the later twelfth and thirteenth century. One of these options ...read more
This project aims to re-evaluate education in monastic contexts of 11th and 12th century Western Europe by relying on the concept of "communities of practice", a notion borrowed from the social sciences. ...read more
This project examines the communicative decisions of a high medieval institution under pressure. For centuries, Benedictine monks had enjoyed a virtual monopoly over institutionalized religious life in Europe. From the twelfth century ...read more
The Late Roman ‘success story’ of urbanization in Africa Proconsularis, Byzacena, Numidia and Tripolitania has mostly been ascertained through generalizations from individual case studies. Broad studies of urban development that ...read more
Previous studies have indicated the social significance of linguistic variation in Postclassical Greek (III BC – VI AD). The general aim of this project is to gain insight into the nature of ...read more