Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more
In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: “As every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancillahistoriae politicae ...read more
This GOA-project aims to give new impetus to the current tendency in economic and social research to bring history to bear on contemporary questions of unequal welfare and growth. The ...read more
Despite all the interest for people like Dmitri Mirsky, Samuel Koteliansky and others who played a major role for the reception of Russian literature in Great-Britain, a remarkable figure of ...read more
This project wants to investigate an ethnographic collection that was assembled by the 1911-1913 expedition to the Uele and Ubangi regions in the northeast of Congo, led by Armand Hutereau. ...read more
In this PhD I will study the influence of mezzadria on economic development and inequality in parts of Tuscany. Mezzadria spread strongly in a very peculiar geographical and socio-economic context. Indeed, Tuscany ...read more
In a majority of food studies, visual arts are used as documentary evidence for the analysis of culinary history. Although these valuable studies show a lot of scientific interest in the ...read more
This dissertation scrutinizes public legal art in the context of nineteenth-century Belgium. More specifically, it considers how government as well as political, legal, and administrative actors generated and used art ...read more