The Roman empire in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 A.D.) was long seen as an autocratic state where the emperor took all decisions. Recent studies have emphasized that many imperial laws ...read more
What is the difference between magic and miracle? Scholars today believe that it is not possible to reach clear definitions of ‘magic’ and ‘miracle’ capable of answering that question: theoretically, ...read more
This project offers the first dedicated study of female-authored satire in Britain during an era often hailed as the Golden Age of Satire (ca. 1670-1760). Scholars of the long eighteenth ...read more
In the last decade, Cretan archaeology made significant advancement in the study of the birth of City-States (the Greek poleis) that follows the decline of Bronze Age civilizations. After large ...read more
In 2022 the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee celebrates 50 years of existence. The institution seizes the jubilee as an opportunity to write the history of the Centre, resulting in a publication, ...read more
In 2020 the archives of Plus-Kern Gallery (exhibition history, artists' correspondence, press clippings, administration) have been bequeathed to Ghent University by Jenny Van Driessche.
In collaboration with the staff of the Ghent ...read more
Bruges’ role as late-medieval harbour and “maritime cultural landscape” is inextricably associated with the dynamic interaction between man and nature via the Zwin tidal inlet. The connectivity within the local ...read more
Citizens have never been more involved in matters of scientific research as today and citizen science, where citizens are not viewed as mere objects of study, is booming business. This ...read more
In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
This project will provide a radically new history of early modern trans-Pacific trade, by critically re-evaluating conventionally used sources, examining hitherto neglected historical archives and records in a range of ...read more