To which extent are sentences like Balcony kisses seal royal wedding a translation problem? What are the causes and how do translators solve them?read more
The Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels preserves 9 instruments by the violin maker Benoit Joseph Boussu, who was born in the north of France in 1703, and active as maker ...read more
The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite ...read more
This PhD sets out to identify and explain spatial variations and temporal changes in (a) revenues raised for the relief of the poor, (b) conceptions of entitlement and belonging, and ...read more
This research has two main objectives. First, I aim to trace and explain variation in childlessness through time, space and across socio-economic groups in 18th- and 19th-century Belgium, and by ...read more
How did rural communities cope with the devastations of war in the pre-modern world? The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which pitched the maritime empire of Athens against the heavy infantry ...read more
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." This aphorism was coined in 1825 by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a famous French gastronome and ...read more
This project aims two major goals (1) to trace the formation of regional monastic communities and the degree of their integration within larger monastic–secular networks in Tang dynasty China, and ...read more
This project aims to write the history of Roman family businesses and thereby to contribute to historical family firm research in the long run. The purpose is to analyze the ...read more