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Historical Canons and Canonization in Belgium and Hungary: a comparative analysis with a European perspective from the late 18th century to the early 21st century (COMPAIR) KU Leuven

Tom Verschaffel
Cultural History since 1750, Kulak Kortrijk Campus
The project’s objective is to prepare a comprehensive methodological framework for a comparative analysis of Belgian and Hungarian historical canons and canonization from the beginning of modern nation-building up to the 21st century. This comparison will follow the examples of national and bi- and multinational initiatives to create a historical canon through places of memory/remembrance, but it will also surpass them by (1) offering a small ...

Human-environment interactions in floodplains since the 18th century KU Leuven

Yves Segers
Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History, Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven, Division of Geography and Tourism

This is one of two interdisciplinary PhD positions within a project that aims at providing a long-term reconstruction of human-environment interactions in floodplains in Flanders. During this project the various direct and indirect human interventions in three case study floodplain sites will be mapped by combining an archaeological, historic and geographical analysis. The goal of this PhD is to analyse how human societies through time have ...

Peasants, farmers and the rise of rural commodity markets. Test-case: the 18th century Land van Waas University of Antwerp

Reinoud Vermoesen
Centre for Urban History
This research project tackles one central question: did rural societies with diverging household and production (income) strategies, also differed in consumptive behaviour? In Early Modern Europe, rural communities predominated by peasant smallholding and proto-industrial development coexisted with regions of specialised capitalist farming. The possibility for economic growth generated by both communities has long been debated in historiography, ...

Buying more with less income? Household production and changing consumer preferences in the smallholding economy of inland Flanders during the 18th century in the light of the Industrious Revolution debate. University of Antwerp

Pieter De Graef
Centre for Urban History
In social and economic history, scholars, who investigated the evolution of living conditions of early modern country dwellers, faced major difficulties to combine consumption-oriented and production-oriented approaches. The optimistic strand of research stressed the increasing ability of rural households in the course of the 18th century to acquire of new consumer goods by working harder and more (i.e. a Consumer Revolution made possible by an ...

Imagining the Orient before Orientalism: Georgian Travellers and the emergence of taste in 18th century British Architecture KU Leuven

Anne-Francoise Morel
Architecture, Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent Campuses
This research project focuses on the architectural transfers from the (imagined) East to the West beyond the mere application of so-called Turqueries or Chinoiseries. Taking eighteenth century travel accounts and the perspective of the orientalist traveller as our starting point, we study how taste finds its way in architectural theory and practice before the establishment of orientalism as a new building paradigm in the nineteenth century. As ...

"It is not so much the danger that I feared but the long length of time": Female Merchants and Future Thinking in 18th Century France. University of Antwerp

Elisabeth Heijmans
Centre for Urban History
How did early modern female merchants think about the future, and did their future thinking differ from their male counterparts? The proposed project will create models using the handwritten text recognition software 'Transkribus' to automatically transcribe French female merchant correspondence from the 18th century and produce a large text corpus to answer the research questions. It is important because it allows for a diversity of sources to ...

Syncretic Religion and Philosophy in 18th Century Vietnam: The Three Teachings (san jiao) in Le Quy Don’s Philosophy Ghent University

Bart Dessein
Department of Languages and Cultures

This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le Quy Don’s philosophy (“zoomed-in”). Le’s views on the Three Teachings are used to elucidate the unique syncretic nature of Vietnamese religion and philosophy during this era.

Balance of power and international law. European diplomacy and the elaboration of the international order, 18th century and post-1945. Ghent University

Dirk Heirbaut
Department of Legal theory and legal history

Our research treats the balance of power-system of the early 18th century (1713-1740) and its return in the European contestation of the bipolar world order after 1945. The legal translation of aspirations to a multipolar order constitutes our analytical framework, while the diplomatic correspondence is our main source (sparsely treated by legal scholars, who primary study treaties and theory).