Mourning texts (āi jìwén 哀祭文) are an important genre of Dūnhuáng 敦煌 literature and are usually regarded as a subgenre of Dūnhuáng "prayer texts” (yuànwén 願文). More than 230 mourning texts are ...read more
Nureni Aremu Bakenne's Ph.D. research is a study of empirical literature and development of newspapers among the Yoruba people of West Africa, with the main focus being Nigeria. Among other things, the ...read more
This project aims to examine the changes in the Benedictines’ ideology of property and poverty in twelfth-century Normandy. Traditional research attributes these changes to Cistercian criticism, but this project will ...read more
The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is ...read more
Our objective is to investigate how learners of Italian as a second and/or as a foreign language use dictionaries to look for new meanings. To do so, we aim to ...read more
Ancient Greek dialects exhibit a great deal of geographic, diachronic, and sociolinguistic variation in their usage, both as spoken and as literary varieties. The Hellenistic age (4th – 1st cc. ...read more
OTTOWAQF will examine how religious foundations shaped state building in the Ottoman Empire during a crucial period between 1450 and 1650. Religious foundations controlled vast swaths of land and property ...read more
This project investigates the formation of Chinese Chan/Zen 禪 Buddhist historiography during the Tang-Song transition (ca. 750–1000). It focuses on how Chan historians shaped and refined hagiographies for the Chan ...read more
In this ongoing publication project, I am dealing with the authors of colloquial poetry that arose in the course of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. It has evolved on the ...read more