This research project focuses on the rich Syriac Christian historiographical tradition and more specifically on the peak of that tradition: the Syriac Renaissance of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. During ...read more
This project consists in a contrastive study of the English and Dutch verbs of appearance seem/appear/turn out and lijken/schijnen/blijken, which may serve an evidential function in that they indicate the ...read more
The goal of the Stylene project is to implement a robust, modular system for stylometry and readability research using existing techniques for automatic text analysis and machine learning. In order ...read more
Until the end of the 18de century dancing remained a rather elitist and generally private matter. Between 1795 up to 1830 we see the context within which bals are organised, ...read more
Between 2010 and 2012, Ghent University and Utrecht University investigated the largest cistern in Thorikos and its immediate surroundings: Cistern No. 1. Whereas most cisterns in the Lavriotiki had been ...read more
Up to now, the Benedictine monk and abbot Guibert of Gembloux (c 1124-1214) has primarily inspired medievalists as the last secretary of Hildegard of Bingen, the famous Rhenish prophetess. However, ...read more
Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the High Middle Ages is a Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO, Belgium). Its aim is to coordinate and stimulate research on ...read more
Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC) will enable medievalists to gain integrated access to two different and completely up-to-date online data collections: (1) Diplomata Belgica, containing descriptions (and often ...read more