The Mamluk Sultanate was an Islamic regime that ruled over Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. While the population at large was Arab and spoke Arabic, its ruling elite ...read more
This project aims two major goals (1) to trace the formation of regional monastic communities and the degree of their integration within larger monastic–secular networks in Tang dynasty China, and ...read more
The project Poetry from the margins. Literary, linguistic, philological and cultural-historical analysis of a new corpus of Byzantine book epigrams (800-1453)bid builds on a previous project of the same team, funded ...read more
The goal of this project is to investigate the underexplored Byzantine meter, within the framework of the modern linguistic theory of information structure, using the Ghent corpus of Byzantine book ...read more
While the importance of ‘economic’ (i.e. en masse) copying by early 16th-century Netherlandish masters is widely accepted by art historians, the contribution of ‘creative’ copying to the art practice and theory before ...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
1984 saw the release one of the most debated works in contemporary Spanish literature: Larva.Babel de una noche de San Juan, the first novel written by Julián Ríos. Refusing to ...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
Lisa Vanlancker’s PhD project focuses on a corpus of literary texts about the Holocaust written by members of three successive generations from three different Dutch-Jewish families. It aims to understand how the historical trauma that is ...read more
This project is situated at the intersection of periodical studies and literary radio studies. With the introduction of sound studies into literary studies, radio has become an important focal point ...read more