Projects
Fashionably Late? Economic growth and time awareness in early modern Europe (Antwerp & Amsterdam, 16th-18th century) University of Antwerp
Much adoe to understand. (Re)translating the Works of Augustine in Early Modern Britain KU Leuven
Involving Readers. Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522-1546) KU Leuven
In the words of the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986): “The book is not a closed entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relationships.” The book does not simply exist, but is created and shaped by the ongoing dialogue between makers and readers, text and context, time and space. This idea forms the backbone of this dissertation. In this study, I display the textual and material interactions between early ...
A woman's lot. Women's participation in the public sphere in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries (1450-1650) by means of lottery-rhymes. University of Antwerp
The Presence of Classics in Early Modern Book History (PreCEM) KU Leuven
A dead language resuscitated? Ancient Greek in early modern culture and scholarship KU Leuven
Thesaurus of Early Modern Archival Sources KU Leuven
In archival arrangement and description, the opacity of formally described items is a crux. Even sophisticated finding aids and powerful search engines do not bridge the gap between formal descriptions by archivists and the content-based questions of researchers. This is particularly the case for serial sources which allow data to be collected over a long period of time. Moreover, while historians use archival documents as a source, they pay ...
STREAM - A spatiotemporal research infrastructure for Early Modern Flanders and Brabant Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Human-environment interactions in Flemish floodplains during the medieval and early modern period KU Leuven
This PhD is part of an interdisciplinary project that aims at providing a reconstruction of floodplain landscapes in Flanders through time. As the landscape is a result of the interaction between the environment and human actions, all physical, direct and indirect human interventions in three case study floodplain sites (Demer, Dijle and Gete) will be mapped by combining an archaeological, historic and geographical analysis. The time-depth ...