Slavery continues to be a popular and fruitful research topic in Classical Studies. Almost every period in history has known its own variety, yet for over two centuries Roman slavery ...read more
The increase in the number of performances based on material from ancient Greek tragedy on contemporary stages all over the world is very apparent. The relevance of these performances has ...read more
In 2012 the Historical Archaeology Research Group started a collaborative project with the Free University of Amsterdam in order to investigate the Late Roman Archaeology of the Low Countries. The ...read more
This research project focuses on hand-shaped pottery in northern Gaul between the first century BC and the fourth century AD. It aims to characterize the production of hand-shaped pottery during ...read more
The region between Gent, Bruges and Aardenburg is characterised by surface clays of the tertiary formation of Asse. During the 11th-13th centuries, the slighty undulating cuesta-landscape of Zomergem, Knesselare, Oedelem ...read more
The development of the fiscal administration as a manifestation of state capacity and infrastructural power, Southern Netherlands and Belgium (1795-1852) is a doctoral research project, financed by Research Foundation Flanders ...read more
This project has the double aim of studying the methodological contribution to the early 20th century history of religions of Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) and of analyzing the impact of his ...read more
Being enlisted as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO since 2010, Kalbeliya dance from Rajasthan is nowadays generally conceptualized as an ancient tradition from India. However, this same dance practice, also ...read more
This research project thematizes reforms and their impact on the social embedding, self-image and social behaviour of monastic groups during the High Middle Ages (tenth-twelfth centuries). Parallel to, and to ...read more