This project aims to improve our understanding of the use of courtesans (high-class Greek sex workers) as a literary focus in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE), a literary and cultural ...read more
For centuries, prayer has been central to people’s worldview, to their education and formation, their experience of religion and the Divine, to the creation of societal communities, and to structuring ...read more
15de eeuw
16e eeuw
Archeologie
Centraal-Europa
Geschiedenis
Literatuurwetenschap
Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Prayer - Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Religious History and Devotional Culture
Science is supposed to produce knowledge that is empirically verifiable, reproducible, and allows for the explanation of regularities and the prediction of events in the world. Because of its reliability, ...read more
Life expectancy in Western countries has increased enormously during the past two centuries. This rise was accompanied by a change in the cause-of-death pattern in which so-called degenerative diseases (cardiovascular ...read more
This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le ...read more
Emotions have attracted a lot of attention in psychology, socio- and psycholinguistics and communication science, but since the past decade also in the fields of computational linguistics and natural language ...read more
This project sets out to provide a historiography of Kikongo language studies and management between 1624 and 1960. It will provide a detailed analysis and historical contextualization of linguistic sources ...read more
The late Qing Reformists were a Chinese political faction that advocated for a transition from monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1890s, and rose to prominence by leading the Hundred ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more