In this study on the contentious politics of use-rights on land in the Southern Netherlands (Belgium) during the period 1750-1900, I examine the socio-historical significance of conflicts about social property ...read more
This project aims to investigate the way in which astrological knowledge practices are used in scientific, historiographical and eschatological texts in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century Syro-Egyptian Mamlūk ...read more
This project examines the development of Benedictine congregational structures in the Reims archdiocese throughout the later twelfth and early thirteenth century by relying on a bottom-up perspective. So far, historical ...read more
Through multifactorial corpus investigations in original and translated Dutch, the project addresses the effects of register variation on grammatical choices, focusing on alternations where one of the alternatives is ...read more
What is the potential of not-understanding (Nichtverstehen) for a critique of culture and subversive aesthetic strategies? How do forms of situational representation actualize this potential? These questions are addressed by ...read more
The worlds of theatre is regarded the start with the ritual ceremony similar to a dialogue with God. Early theatre tries to enter into a relationship with God, during the ...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
This PhD project researches the metaphor, symbol, and theme of “shelter” as it is deployed in contemporary climate change fiction and ecocriticism, as historicized by the cultural proliferation of the ...read more
This project investigates how changing socio-economic relations within Bruges and Mechlin had an impact on the socio-professional topography of both cities during the transition period between the Late Middle Ages ...read more