The emirs were the politico military elite of the mamluk sultanate since the mid-13 century. They were supposed to protect Islam against the infidel conquerors. The pluralist institutional structure of ...read more
The overarching conclusion of this study is that Lutheran astronomers of the Renaissance—represented here by Erasmus Reinhold, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Caspar Peucer, and Tycho Brahe—saw their work as taking place ...read more
This ongoing interdisciplinary project aims at studying the impact of long-term and short-term (abrupt, short climatic events) climatic changes during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in the Scheldt basin ...read more
The STEVIN project SoNaR aims to build a 500-million word balanced reference corpus for contemporary (1954-present) written Dutch. Besides comprising no less than 38 text types, the corpus will also ...read more
This research deals with Zheng Banqiao’s (1693-1765) calligraphy Nande hutu难得糊涂 (‘It’s difficult to be muddled’) and its present popularity, including the popular ‘study’ that has been made of the concept ...read more
For several years the team directed by Prof Dr Frank Vermeulen operating in the western Mediterranean area focused on the intensive non-destructive study of a number of abandoned Roman towns ...read more
The main goal of this research is to empirically study Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified subjects in adverbial contexts, on the basis of statistical analyses of corpus and ...read more
Narrative Sources, online since 1996, aims to offer an exhaustive and critical survey of all the narrative sources originating from the medieval Low Countries. The database is intended ...read more
This work focuses on the composition of Saṅghabhadra's Shanjian lü piposha and on the nature of its relation with the Pāli Samantapāsādikā. Through thorough research into several aspects of T.1462, ...read more