This research project addresses the development of corporate identities in Benedictine monasteries situated in the bishopric of Liège in the late eleventh and twelfth century. This development can be uniquely studied through ...read more
This project aims to resolve an inconsistency in the research on Roman local social hierarchies. The Romans minutely described their social position in inscriptions. Modern scholars, however, often only use ...read more
This project aims for a structural and comparative study of Roman trade, trying to pinpoint which features are essentially Roman and which are shared with other pre-industrial societies. By confronting ...read more
The project deals with the interaction of gender, politics and the press in the nineteenth century, roughly from the Congress of Vienna until the revolutions of 1848. It analyses the occurrence ...read more
Historical evidence suggests that the medieval landscape was intensively exploited during the high medieval period. This was especially true in the county of Flanders due to the development of cities ...read more
The Belgian historian Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) is commonly acknowledged as one of the most influential European scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In his own country he ...read more
Until the end of the 18de century dancing remained a rather elitist and generally private matter. Between 1795 up to 1830 we see the context within which bals are organised, ...read more