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
The POPPKAD project focuses on the study of owners and landownership relations. Its aim is to develop a digital land register for different regions of Belgium in the middle of ...read more
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) prospection is, along with magnetometer prospection, earth resistance survey and prospection with sensors based on electromagnetic induction, one of the most widely used geophysical prospection techniques ...read more
This project aims to explore the motivations behind the case alternation between accusative (ACC) and dative (DAT) after two-way prepositions in present-day German (PDG). Special attention goes to those instances ...read more
Roman public baths have been described as markers for the Roman culture and the Roman way of life. The decline of the Western Roman Empire has hence been seen as ...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
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
During the transition of the Late Middle Ages into the Early Modern Times, the ownership structures of the European countryside underwent significant changes. On the one hand, there was ...read more