How are rhetoric and medicine combined in the early modern Italian literature? What role does the vernacular play? Which is the legacy of this literature? This project will contribute to ...read more
The documentary (non-literary) Greek material of Egypt (papyri, ostraca, inscriptions), as well as additional literary and semi-literary comparanda, will be collated and analysed to contextualise the processes of change taking ...read more
For over two centuries the organization of work and labour has occupied a central place in narratives of social and economic change in the past. Agricultural labour in the eighteenth ...read more
Many early modern European works of art are not singular images but a combination of images with figurative marginalia, borders or frames. In general, art historical research addressing marginal imagery ...read more
This project will re-evaluate intra-religious mobility – understood as the phenomenon of transitioning from one Christian religious order to another – in a period (1050-1230) when the growing variety of ...read more
My study revolves around the unduly neglected figure of the late-Qing and early Republican Confucian scholar Liao Ping 廖平 (1852-1932). Instead of attempting to write an intellectual biography in a traditional sense, ...read more
The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more
The Bantu Expansion is not only the principal linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. It has also become one of the most controversial issues in African History. ...read more
The project investigates the evolution of the vowel system within the so-called 'Latin-Romace transition'. This research will be devoted to determining whether a sociolinguistic variation (both stylistic, diastratic and diatopic) ...read more
In early modern Antwerp, civic joyous entries were more than just a purely political event with splendid festive decorations adorning the streets and façades. They were huge projects where many ...read more