Slavery continues to be a popular and fruitful research topic in Classical Studies. Almost every period in history has known its own variety, yet for over two centuries Roman slavery ...read more
The textile industry was the largest economic sector in pre-industrial society (apart from food). Early-modern textile industry has accordingly received much attention from economic and social historians. Matters are different ...read more
Investigation of the language of the later Medieval Greek (12th-16th centuries) vernacular romances composed in the decapentasyllabioc metre of the politikos stichos within the modern framework of information structure (most ...read more
In the late 19th and early 20th century, intra-European student migration became a mass phenomenon. Students most commonly travelled from the Imperial Russian territories - where the higher education system ...read more
The increase in the number of performances based on material from ancient Greek tragedy on contemporary stages all over the world is very apparent. The relevance of these performances has ...read more
In 2012 the Historical Archaeology Research Group started a collaborative project with the Free University of Amsterdam in order to investigate the Late Roman Archaeology of the Low Countries. The ...read more
This research project focuses on hand-shaped pottery in northern Gaul between the first century BC and the fourth century AD. It aims to characterize the production of hand-shaped pottery during ...read more
The development of the fiscal administration as a manifestation of state capacity and infrastructural power, Southern Netherlands and Belgium (1795-1852) is a doctoral research project, financed by Research Foundation Flanders ...read more