From the late 1940s, cities in Spain began to grow rapidly. The mass migration of rural inhabitants resulted in the emergence of slums and shantytowns in the outskirts of the ...read more
The project "Networks of resistance: Ágora Literaty Circle in the Spanish Post-War (1955-1973)" deals with an anti-Fascist Spanish literary circle and attempts to identify the international network of writers with ...read more
Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more
The implication of man being a species among species is that he has to start of with the same type and quality of cognitive abilities as the next of kin ...read more
Yoga, as other new spiritual and well-being practices, has gained a lot in popularity in Western Europe, especially among women. This research project concerns an ethnographic study of yogic women ...read more
The principal aim of this research project is to compare the predominant concepts of the Ottoman and Burgundian political discourse in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Even though reciprocal ...read more
Due to large scale electrification, demand for copper rose exponentially at the end of the 19th century. New copper resources were found across the world, particularly South America and Africa. ...read more
During the Middle Ages, the metropolis of Bruges thrived through its oversea trade. A large tidalinlet – called Zwin – provided a navigable passage from the North Sea, through the ...read more
“Encounter dialogue” is perhaps the most recognizable of all (Zen) Buddhist genres. Better known under their abbreviated form as kōan, these texts portray mysterious verbal sparring bouts between Zen masters ...read more