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
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
For centuries, prayer has been central to people’s worldview, to their education and formation, their experience of religion and the Divine, to the creation of societal communities, and to structuring ...read more
15de eeuw
16e eeuw
Archeologie
Centraal-Europa
Geschiedenis
Literatuurwetenschap
Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Prayer - Medieval and Early Modern Studies - Religious History and Devotional Culture
This project sets out to provide a historiography of Kikongo language studies and management between 1624 and 1960. It will provide a detailed analysis and historical contextualization of linguistic sources ...read more
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more
If philology was queen of the sciences in the 19th century, this project surveys her kingdom. PhiQoS examines its fields, labourers, and idols, its modes of exchange and structures of organisation, as ...read more
This project uses contemporary art as a lens to write the history of Antwerp, a port city with an arthistorical reputation, between 1980 and 2000. The study examines a corpus ...read more
In the nineteenth century, equality before the law was considered the cornerstone of the Enlightenment legal doctrine, and this principle was enshrined in the constitutions of the liberal democracies of ...read more
My project focuses on the history of Baohua Mountain from the late Ming to the middle Qing period (seventeenth–eighteenth century), tracing the establishment and development of the Vinaya (monastic code) ...read more