Projects
Hive Mind: Networks, collectivity, and mentorship amongst women artists, patrons, and collectors in the Low Countries in the early modern period. Ghent University
The project will explore the relationships amongst the women artists, collectors, and patrons in the circle proximate to the still-life painter Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) and examine their roles in that network. In doing so, the project will uncover, for example, the various ways in which the women influenced each other, helped each other develop technically, and shared resources. Relying upon an innovative methodology and an analytical ...
The reception of Platos khôra in the Early Modern Period (1400-1650). KU Leuven
The reception of Plato's khôra in the Early Modern Period (1400-1650). KU Leuven
'Trembling Curiosity': The Naturalizing of Religion in the Early Modern Period University of Antwerp
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 ...
The role of the Dutch fresh in the development of innovative forms of European versification of the early modern period Ghent University
This project studies the origins, evolution and transformation of the alternating (syllabotonische) versification in poetry and euml behold from the early modern period and analyzes the role of the Dutch verse in the diffusion of these versification in Europe. Shortly after the Dutch po & euml; see syllabotonische system – was; and especially the iambic metra – the main form of versification in many countries. A proper understanding of ...
Tenure track professorship in visual arts of the late Middle Ages and early modern period 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.
Caritas et Memoria. A Study of the Interplay Between Poor Relief and Commemoration is Cosmopolitan Bruges during the Late Middle Ages - Early Modern Period based on the Organization and Functioning of Parochial Poor Tables. KU Leuven
This research investigates the interaction between poor relief and memoria in the late Middle Ages and sixteenth century. While it is well-known that food distributions to the poor were a form of memoria, its implications for the daily practices of charity remain unclear, as both topics belong to different historiographical traditions. By exploring one well-chosen example, i.e. the parochial poor tables of Bruges, the ...
The old maid. Analysis of the survival strategies of never married women during the early modern period. Case-study: the region of Bruges, 1730-1850 Ghent University
The goal of this study is to analyse the strategies that never married women employed to secure their survival in different production systems during the 18th century.