This project will offer the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the use of speech acts, ritual acts and spatial arrangements in the construction of episcopal authority in the ‘long ...read more
The Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies is launched as one of the five SHGW (social and behavioral sciences and humanities) research consortia at Ghent University. It operates within the larger ...read more
According to historical anthropometry, average height is one of the best measures to study well-being of a society. Since height is mainly an indicator of social and economic conditions during ...read more
In the summer of 1566, Calvinist iconoclasts attacked churches all over the Low Countries. They destroyed religious sculptures, paintings and cult objects. Essentially, the Beeldenstorm was a physical reaction of ...read more
The aim of this project is an analysis of how media, “multimedia” in particular, functioned in a sixteenth-century local context. By doing so this project will offer a methodologically innovative ...read more
In the past, Belgium has played a pioneering role in prison design. Despite the growing interest in the history of prison architecture abroad since the 1970's, the study of ...read more
Through ethnographic fieldwork and participatory video, I explore the production and mobilization of historical narratives in ‘post-conflict’ Guatemala. More specifically, I focus on the relation between narrativity and political action in indigenous victim-survivor communities in the ...read more
In the wake of the Roman legions, ceramic building materials conquered the Roman North. The tradition of producing building elements out of clay and petrifying them by firing was largely ...read more
The research project puts a focus on stone artefacts (millstones, hone stones, etc.) traded, used and discarded in (the northern parts of) the Roman ‘Civitas Menapiorum’ and its neighbouring regions. ...read more