Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages.
LOKSTAT + is an extension of LOKSTAT, the database of local statistics in Belgium (1800- 1970). LOKSTAT (developed at UGent) is a digital database of demographic, socio-economic and political-institutional statistics, ...read more
All over the world people are struggling to overcome the health and economic impact of COVID19. Faced with a health crisis, economic recession, and social shock which are time and ...read more
The international scientific research network HiDo, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, brings scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds together. HiDo consists of 14 research groups from Flanders (UGent, KULeuven, and ...read more
The 11th century is commonly seen as the time when Western Christianity first drew strict moral and behavioural boundaries between the servants of the Church and the laity. Recent scholarship ...read more
This project aims at the operationalization of the legacy data collection of the Thorikos Archaeological Research Project (1960 - present), especially those of the ancient Theatre, within the innovative iDig ...read more
This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more
This research project concerns the political role and impact of assassination in the Late Roman Empire. The killing of human beings, and above all the judgement of its legitimacy, ...read more
Like Instagram today, new print technology caused a revolutionary increase in the number of images in the early modern period. In that same era, art and technology became separated. Today, ...read more