Projects
History and Theory of Early Modern Architecture Ghent University
My research examines the practices and techniques of early modern architecture, with particular attention to fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy. My work is pioneering in the authority it grants practical, working architectural drawings, renderings that are commonly overlooked by historians of architecture and art due to their utilitarian and workaday qualities. Since Giorgio Vasari, scholars have been conditioned to differentiate ...
BOF ZAP early modern history of art Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Tenure track professorship in theory, history and criticism of early modern architecture Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
The emergence of a 'modern' labour market? Tracing rural labourers in an early modern commercial farming system: the Waasland polder area (1650-1850) University of Antwerp
Boundary Stones in the Body: Kidney, Bladder and Gall Stones as Markers of Early Modern Concepts of the Human Body and Its Relations with the Outside World, 1525-1675 Ghent University
How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients had many options to make illness meaningful. Over the past decades historians have shown that bodily experience involved medical, natural-historical, scientific, and religious approaches. We can now go further: how did medical, philosophical and ...
Forensic Approach for Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts VSC8000 KU Leuven
Greetings from the past: on the use of interjections in foreign language textbooks from Early modern Flanders Ghent University
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks (Colloquia, et dictionariolum, 1536-1700) which we will compile. The project will also provide insight into aspects of linguistic and cultural knowledge transfer through language teaching in Early modern Flanders. ...
The dynamics of visionary lay devotion. Visions and apparitions in late medieval and early modern miracle books from the Low Countries (1300-1700). University of Antwerp
Facing Diversity. Representations of Early Modern Learned Women Writers and the Construction of intellectual and literary authority (1500-1850) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual and literary authority at the dawn of modern science in the early modern era, systematically analyzing printed textual and visual portraits of women writers as agents of public authority. In traditional historiography on women’s contributions to the early modern European ...