This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more
The Mamluk Prosopography Project (MPP) is an open access digital humanities database for the study of elite social groups, networks and social/cultural practice in the Late Medieval Syro-Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate ...read more
Research interests: (1) Troy literature from Homer over imperial times towards the Middle Ages; (2) western romances "on the fringe" between Knight and Saint; and (3) heroic characterization.read more
Nearly all countries know a number of memoir-writings, mostly political leaders explaining their role in public life. It is also quite commonplace for authors engaged in writing literary works to ...read more
"Repertoires of Slavery", funded by FWO, charted the erratic ideological terrain of abolitionism through the lens of white-produced theater in the Netherlands in a period rife with seething debates over race, ...read more
While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding ...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 project examines the functions of lyrical traits that are intensified in Dutch and Flemish prose between 1955 and 1975. After a period of post-war reconstruction, the sixties mark an era ...read more
This project corresponds to a consistent continuation of one previous: “La configuración del patrón poético español tras la Guerra Civil: relaciones literarias, culturales y sociales”, with reference FFI2013-44041-P (01/01/2014-31/12/2016). The ...read more
The project examines how contemporary Chilean and Argentinian writers and filmmakers imagine new forms of human interaction and resistance in everyday life, by focussing on how they represent intimate relationships ...read more