This project focuses on the observance and organization of women religious in the central Middle Ages (9th-11th centuries) to investigate female monasticism as a deliberately "ambiguous" form of social and ...read more
Stylometry, a subfield of Digital Humanities, offers new methods for segregating different writing styles. So far, stylometry has been especially popular in authorship attribution studies. This project will approach issues ...read more
This project starts out from the vision books of Hildegard of Bingen, which present allegorical visions together with their exegesis. The project asks whether this use of allegorical creation could ...read more
This PhD project charts the transformation of the artistic male nude in fin-de-siècle Belgium, in light of the changing views of masculinity and male sociability which are often said to ...read more
Genealogies and chronicles are biased products which offer an indirect insight in specific political and ideological strategies. This project deals with the gendered representation of male and female rulers in ...read more
The Diversity in Education project considers the social inequalities in the Belgian educational system based on ethnicity, socio-economic background, disability and gender. In collaboration with KULeuven and ULB, the project ...read more
The concept of ‘harmful cultural practices’ has been increasingly used in development and humanrights discourse to refer to practices such as female genital cutting, honour related violence orforced marriages. However, ...read more
From the late twelfth and early thirteenth century onwards, against the backdrop of demographic growth and urbanization, a growing number of laypeople started to pursue a religious life without actually ...read more