Although pilgrimage characterised Christianity from its beginnings, the fourth century saw a dramatic increase of travelling to the Holy Land and Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Rome. This is reflected in a boom of "itineraria": texts describing the routes
U+201CEmpire of PrintU+201D studies the work of four late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century authors in the colonial and postcolonial press. Unlike the little magazine, the newspapers of the British Empire have not yet been fully examined in relation to moderni
During the Middle Ages, the metropolis of Bruges thrived through its oversea trade. A large tidal inlet U+2013 called Zwin U+2013 provided a navigable passage from the North Sea, through the wetlands, to heart of the city. In the middle of the 16th century, the Eig
North and South Kivu, provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been the locus of much violent conflict since the 1990s. This has reiterated colonial imaginations of the Congo as a U+2018heart of darknessU+2019, plagued by irrationality, barbarism,
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The Burgundian Low Countries were multilingual in their speaking and writi
This project is about environmental justice, and assumes that mass destruction of wild animals is correlated with social injustice. It addresses this issue by focusing on the birth and development of colonial conservationist policies of the African elepha
Archaeologists still know very little about settlements and land use in Central-Adriatic Italy in the
centuries before the Roman conquest in 268 BC: most information about Bronze and Iron Age (ca.
2000-268 BC) communities in this part of Italy comes from rich burials and surface artefacts. This
project aims at filling this lacuna by mapping case-study areas where archaeological traces can be
expected on the basis of ...
European Cinema Audiences is a comparative cinema heritage project that explores European film
cultures in the post-WWII period. The project, funded by the Arts&Humanities Research Council
(2018-2021) is led by Ghent University, Oxford Brookes University and De Montfort University. It
stands from the British Academy/Leverhulme fund (2015-2017). The applicant Van de Vijver was
granted this Arts&Humanities Research ...
The Roman empire in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 A.D.) was long seen as an autocratic state where
the emperor took all decisions. Recent studies have emphasized that many imperial laws were in
fact responses to questions from below, and that their drafting and execution was handled by
counsellors and bureaucrats. Yet the actual decision processes have not yet been studied: On the
basis of which arguments were decisions ...
The special documentation of Ptolemaic Egypt (thousands of papyri and potsherds containing among other things tax receipts and tax lists) informs us in detail about the complex fiscal system. Hence the country is known for its many taxes and its bureaucracy. But does that imply that the tax burden was high? The project wants to measure, for the first time, the tax burden in Egypt by using a new typology of taxes combined with representative ...