This PhD research aims at a systematic and corpus-driven study in Luganda of how the modal core concepts of possibility and necessity are expressed, along with closely related categories, such as ...read more
This interuniversity research project of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University is dedicated to elite formation in sixteenth‐century Ghent. It aspires to understand how urban elites were shaped and ...read more
The formation of bujutsu ryūha [martial arts schools] was underpinned by Japanese cultural traditions. Progressing towards mastership required sustained training of body and mind. The process of instruction and learning ...read more
Frequent yet unpredictable harvest failures were a notorious aspect of pre-modern agriculture, dependent as farming was on the vagaries of the climate. Cities were particularly vulnerable in such situations, as ...read more
This research deals with the semantic and syntactic functions, and the contextualized usages of tense and aspect expressions in early Chinese Buddhist literature translated from Indic languages before the fifth ...read more
This PhD studies the reception of the Dharmaguptakavinaya in Medieval China. The focus lies on the most influential master, master Daoxuan, and his (1) relation to the imperial court, and ...read more
This study will be the first about the Roman tribunate of the plebs that spans its entire history in the Republic and Empire chronologically since Niccolini’s 1932 Il tribunato della ...read more
This project will analyze the Ancient Greek discourse markers gar, oun and de in three fourth-century texts - two of them argumentative (Basil the Great's Hexaemeron and Gregory of Nazianzen's Invectives against ...read more
The primary aim of this research is to investigate the possibility of using historical theory to analyse something other than historical writing, in this case, the (re)memorialisation of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985), ...read more
Through ethnographic fieldwork and participatory video, I explore the production and mobilization of historical narratives in ‘post-conflict’ Guatemala. More specifically, I focus on the relation between narrativity and political action in indigenous victim-survivor communities in the ...read more