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
In the history of political thought, Late Antiquity is usually considered the period when the city-state definitively gave way to monarchy and the Bible and Qur’an took the place of ...read more
The aim of the SerialKey project is to carry out a technological and morphometric study of mass-produced items from the European Final Bronze Age in order to gain a better ...read more
The project “Yemen, Rural Communities, and Tribes: Society, Economy and Power (13th-15th c.)” (YemenARC) examines the historical role of Yemeni rural communities, predominantly tribal, between the 13th and the 15th ...read more
The project aims to reconstruct the impact that the dissemination of vernacular translations of Plato had in Italy between 1540 and 1840. Focusing the inquiry on paratexts (prefaces, dedications, letters, ...read more
Over time and space, languages can change fundamentally in their structure (morphosyntax). A key example of such variation is the change between analytic and synthetic morphosyntax. Such variation is clearly ...read more
Today's parliamentary democracy has a long history. During the Ancien Regime, representative institutions known as "Estates," "Diet", "Riksdag", "Parliament" or "Cortes" existed in many European countries. They were the counterparts ...read more
This project will analyse the last revival of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the imperial persecution that seems to produce its disappearance from the region in the 6th century. ...read more
Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed spans multiple ecozones in the northern margins of the rainforest. It is a major hotbed of linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity with deep occupation history. ...read more
This research project addresses the inadequately studied phonetic and phonological features of the "entre Congo-Ubangi" sector of Africa's Macro-Sudan Belt, in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. The "entre Congo-Ubangi", rich ...read more