The popular genre of crime fiction not only reflects, but also shapes the prevailing perceptions of criminals in a certain culture. In order to yield a thorough historical understanding of ...read more
This project aims to get a better understanding of the social history of Indian philosophy. For this purpose, this project will investigate the history of philosophy at Nalanda, the most ...read more
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point ...read more
In recent years, the users’ performance of face-work strategies online has emerged in literature as a challenging issue requiring more thorough investigation. Indeed, as we spend more of our time ...read more
Composed by Thomas of Marga, a bishop in northern Iraq (9th century), the Book of Superiors tells the story of Christianity in the Middle East between the 6th and 9th ...read more
Literary criticism plays an important role in the way literary works are perceived and what value is ascribed to them: it has a gatekeeping function, attributing cultural legitimacy through its ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages.
This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more
This project aims to investigate and theorise China's ‘sharp power’ in contemporary China and Taiwan. ‘Sharp power’ is the power to shape the public opinion and ideology of other countries. ...read more