By analyzing coin production and leveraging a key discovery that enables tracking die engravers across multiple reigns, it will provide insights into issues of succession, co-rule, and conflict. In turn, ...read more
This FWO senior research project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in ...read more
This project studies the overlooked history of peer review in the humanities between 1950 and today. In this period, peer review, i.e., the institutionalized evaluations of research and researchers by ...read more
The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
Cities such as Paris, Bruges, Ghent and Florence experienced remarkable growth from the High Middle Ages onwards. Recent scholarship indicates that this economic complexity was primarily driven by local and ...read more
This project aims to describe and analyze the use of modal expressions (such as can, must, and maybe) in Swahili, focusing on variation and change across time and space. Spoken ...read more
This doctoral research aims to reconceptualize the design and application of online Chinese-English specialized dictionaries for learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), with a particular focus on writing support. ...read more
This project starts from two major lacunae in research. Despite substantial progress in the study of premodern material culture, historians have failed to add a spatial dimension to their knowledge ...read more
Situated at the intersection of literary studies and translation studies, this project examines the presence and representation of translated foreign literatures in the French literary field during the 1920s, a decade ...read more
The title of this project alludes to the terms used by Gabriele D'Annunzio to describe his translation experiments (from Latin and Ancient Greek) in his first youthful collection of poems. ...read more