Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in ...read more
1. Make an open access inventory of the human remains from archaeological research in Flanders using various paramaters to give archaeologists, physical anthropologists and ...read more
The concept of collective government in the Middle Ages is associated primarily with urban contexts, while lords are usually understood as exercising sole power over their individual rural domains. However, ...read more
What is the difference between magic and miracle? Scholars today believe that it is not possible to reach clear definitions of ‘magic’ and ‘miracle’ capable of answering that question: theoretically, ...read more
Since the Great Recession of 2007, research on the causes of economic inequality has been at the centre of both societal and academic debates, also among historians. Whereas most scholars ...read more
This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more
Combining intellectual history with material philology, this project studies the authority attributed to histories in Syriac excerpt collections (6-10th c). It uses unstudied material to analyse the intertwining of identity ...read more
The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2023), involves a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims ...read more
The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more