To fully understand the long development of the form-function pairings involved in the Latin tenses, we must view them as part of a system - a system that relates to ...read more
Hugo Grotius is best known as a legal scholar (Mare liberum, De iure belli ac pacis) and as a politician in Oldenbarnevelt's entourage. He was also interested in philology (he ...read more
This project aims to chart and trace the dynamics and impact of the neo-avant-garde in Flemish literary magazines (1949-1979). These magazines are conceived as both a discursive network and an ...read more
This project intends to understand better how Greek medieval letters had a concrete function in society, and were at the same time crafted as highly sophisticated rhetorical works of art. ...read more
Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree ...read more
Notwithstanding that medieval gender history focusing on women’s engagement with power has flourished as an academic field since the 1980s, it still shows important lacunas in the assessment of aristocratic women’s diplomatic roles ...read more
This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more
The 11th century is commonly seen as the time when Western Christianity first drew strict moral and behavioural boundaries between the servants of the Church and the laity. Recent scholarship ...read more
The persuasive function of metaphorical language has long been taken for granted, both inside and outside of the field of linguistics. Due to their ability to structure more abstract topics ...read more