How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients ...read more
Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
This joint PhD project with Utrecht University ‘Negotiating Secular and Religious Gender Discourses: Women Converting to Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Netherlands’ generates the main body of qualitative empirical ...read more
In this Joint PhD project (Sichuan University / Ghent University) the focus is on Chan (Zen) Buddhist phrases in texts of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty periods, as ...read more
My research deals with the relation between the languages Kikongo and Lingala and the way the opposition between them has been activated throughout the history of the Congolese capital (1950s-present ...read more
The aim of this research is an analysis of the influences of Plato and the First and Second Sophistic in the Pseudo-Clementines. Until now, the study of philosophy in the Pseudo-Clementines has largely ...read more
This study will make a new interpretation of the 'Yongming poetic style' poems from a political perspective and argues that these poems are not a reaction to "a peaceful flourishing ...read more
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
This project systematically relates scripting of rituals of inclusion and exclusion to societal developments in the Central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries). So far, scholarship in this field has relied on ...read more