The Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels preserves 9 instruments by the violin maker Benoit Joseph Boussu, who was born in the north of France in 1703, and active as maker ...read more
This PhD sets out to identify and explain spatial variations and temporal changes in (a) revenues raised for the relief of the poor, (b) conceptions of entitlement and belonging, and ...read more
How did rural communities cope with the devastations of war in the pre-modern world? The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which pitched the maritime empire of Athens against the heavy infantry ...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 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
The 'Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst' was the SS security police in charge of the persecution of the political and racial enemies of the Third Reich. From 1940 onwards it was also ...read more
The period known as the long 19th century (1789-1914) is characterised as a formative phase, bylegal historians for the current Belgian legal system; by art historians, for the current visual ...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