The project works on developing the capacities of central and local governance for utilization of research and data for policy-making and accountability. Specifically, perceptions of citizens on pertinent issues will ...read more
This research project focuses on the rich Syriac Christian historiographical tradition and more specifically on the peak of that tradition: the Syriac Renaissance of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. During ...read more
This project consists in a contrastive study of the English and Dutch verbs of appearance seem/appear/turn out and lijken/schijnen/blijken, which may serve an evidential function in that they indicate the ...read more
The goal of the Stylene project is to implement a robust, modular system for stylometry and readability research using existing techniques for automatic text analysis and machine learning. In order ...read more
Until the end of the 18de century dancing remained a rather elitist and generally private matter. Between 1795 up to 1830 we see the context within which bals are organised, ...read more
Between 2010 and 2012, Ghent University and Utrecht University investigated the largest cistern in Thorikos and its immediate surroundings: Cistern No. 1. Whereas most cisterns in the Lavriotiki had been ...read more
The present research has three aims. The first is to explore how far extant monastic institutions maintain a sense of continuity vis-à-vis the three above-mentioned historical codices, in both theory ...read more
Up to now, the Benedictine monk and abbot Guibert of Gembloux (c 1124-1214) has primarily inspired medievalists as the last secretary of Hildegard of Bingen, the famous Rhenish prophetess. However, ...read more