The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy and ultimately, it investigates medieval Greek solutions to the question as to how to explain the cosmos through literary means. ...read more
This project will analyse the last revival of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the imperial persecution that seems to produce its disappearance from the region in the 6th century. ...read more
This project investigates the intellectual exchanges of the early Palaiologan period by analysing Byzantine book epigrams preserved in manuscripts dated ca. 1280–1350, treating paratexts as a key means of tracing patterns ...read more
This project investigates how narrative meaning in fiction emerges from underlying linguistic structure, with a focus on how syntax, discourse organization, and sequential patterns shape storytelling. By applying natural language ...read more
This project investigates how narrative meaning in fiction emerges from underlying linguistic structure, with a focus on how syntax, discourse organization, and sequential patterns shape storytelling. By applying natural language ...read more
This project investigates how narrative meaning in fiction emerges from underlying linguistic structure, with a focus on how syntax, discourse organization, and sequential patterns shape storytelling. By applying natural language ...read more
Over time and space, languages can change fundamentally in their structure (morphosyntax). A key example of such variation is the change between analytic and synthetic morphosyntax. Such variation is clearly ...read more
This project studies the overlooked history of peer review in the humanities between 1950 and today. In this period, peer review, i.e., the institutionalized evaluations of research and researchers by ...read more
This project aims at analyzing for the first time (im)purity language and discourses in Syriac sources written in the 4th-9th c., to highlight the specificities of Syriac Christianity vis-à-vis other ancient strands. ...read more