Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this ...read more
PhD research Ioanna Kostopoulou, joint PhD Ghent University - Universität Tübingen. The scheduled PhD project aims at achieving a better understanding of the multicultural character of the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos ...read more
The development of the future and conditional tense in Castilian – as in Romance in general – has been universally acknowledged as a typical case of grammaticalisation, whereby the two ...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
KiMuPe is an artistic research project (PhD), conducted by dr. Luc Nijs as member of the CORPoREAL research group at Royal Conservatory Antwerp (RCA). Promotors of the project are: Prof. ...read more
The project intends to examine a key corpus of digital comics from a formal perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the features offered by the digital format. This involves ...read more
This research contains the water landscapes in the arid region of Turfan (Xinjiang, China). The focus will be both on the anthropological and cultural ties to the elements used to ...read more
Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been enormous progress in the field of conflict archaeology, especially in the First World War. This was further reinforced by the ...read more
The phenomenon of lobbyists attempting to influence the decisions of government is nothing new. While official, regulated lobbying is a modern institution, informal lobbying is much older. In Roman Antiquity, ...read more