This project focuses on the leadership of ‘second-generation reformers’ in monasteries from the central Middle Ages (10th-early 12th centuries) to investigate the phenomenon of monastic reform as a long-term process. ...read more
The significance of coastal and estuarine areas for understanding former human life and palaeolandscapes is nowadays recognized internationally. The large preservation potential of these sites, on the transition of the ...read more
This research project addresses the development of corporate identities in Benedictine monasteries situated in the bishopric of Liège in the late eleventh and twelfth century. This development can be uniquely studied through ...read more
The project deals with the interaction of gender, politics and the press in the nineteenth century, roughly from the Congress of Vienna until the revolutions of 1848. It analyses the occurrence ...read more
Historical evidence suggests that the medieval landscape was intensively exploited during the high medieval period. This was especially true in the county of Flanders due to the development of cities ...read more
Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the High Middle Ages is a Scientific Research Network of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO, Belgium). Its aim is to coordinate and stimulate research on ...read more
Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC) will enable medievalists to gain integrated access to two different and completely up-to-date online data collections: (1) Diplomata Belgica, containing descriptions (and often ...read more
The primary aim of the project seeked to evaluate in detail how and to which degree the palaeo-landscape determined the prehistoric occupation and exploitation within Sandy Flanders, starting from the ...read more