This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more
In the history of ancient Chinese thought, bide 比德 initially existed as a universal mode of thinking with anthropological significance, referring to the association of certain human behaviors or concepts with the characteristics ...read more
This project aims at offering a fresh study of public generosity and benefactors in the late Roman period in the Eastern Mediterranean as a way to advance three key debates which feature prominently ...read more
Formulaic texts constitute a core interest of researchers working at UGent. Within the Greek section, there are two major ongoing research projects about such genres, an ERC-project about ‘everyday’ texts ...read more
Buddhist Sūtra Literature represents the diverse, discursive genre of scripture held to be canonical by various Buddhist traditions because it was considered to be buddhavacana (words spoken by the Buddha). ...read more
This project aims at analyzing for the first time (im)purity language and discourses in Syriac sources written in the 4th-9th c., to highlight the specificities of Syriac Christianity vis-à-vis other ancient strands. ...read more
In the last several years, fantastic manuscript finds have surfaced opening new windows into the scholarly study of the development of Buddhist literature. Gandhara Corpora represents a multifaceted, holistic approach ...read more
Marveling is a universal human response to something greater than ourselves. Throughout history, narrative literature has been a prime vehicle for marveling since descriptions of the extraordinary can induce the ...read more
This project aims to improve our understanding of the use of courtesans (high-class Greek sex workers) as a literary focus in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE), a literary and cultural ...read more
In modern languages, polite formulaic phrases often trace back to performative verbs (e.g. performative verbs of asking such as parakaló in Modern Greek, bitte in German or prego in Italian). ...read more