This project studies the letters and letter-collection of Basil, bishop of Caesarea (ca. 330-379 AD), as means for lobbying, persuasion, and self-presentation. While the letters of Basil have always been ...read more
Dante Alighieri and his works, particularly the Divine Comedy, have played a key role in forming the European culture. Through different times and contexts, it appears clear that his works and ...read more
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more
The project entails an ecopoetic inquiry into literary fiction on nature and ecology as a transcultural problem area within four interacting cultural regions (French, Germanophone, Anglophone, Italian). Central to this ...read more
This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but ...read more
The research project aims to scrutinize the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself, how it relates to émigré culture, and its relation to other (older and contemporary) ...read more
How are rhetoric and medicine combined in the early modern Italian literature? What role does the vernacular play? Which is the legacy of this literature? This project will contribute to ...read more
This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness. This project advances ...read more
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Latin gradually lost its dominant position as a literary language in Europe. The normativity of the Classics was increasingly questioned in the literary field, ...read more