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The reception of Platos khôra in the Early Modern Period (1400-1650). KU Leuven

Gerd Van Riel
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
If you strip down the material universe to its basic constituent, what is left? From the very outset, philosophy has faced the difficulty of conceiving this puzzling substrate. Since this substrate should by its very nature be indeterminate, it cannot be properly conceptualized. Hence, the acceptance of this underlying nature confronts philosophy with its own limits: right in the centre of the philosophical system there is something that cannot ...

The reception of Plato's khôra in the Early Modern Period (1400-1650). KU Leuven

Gerd Van Riel
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
If you strip down the material universe to its basic constituent, what is left? From the very outset, philosophy has faced the difficulty of conceiving this puzzling substrate. Since this substrate should by its very nature be indeterminate, it cannot be properly conceptualized. Hence, the acceptance of this underlying nature confronts philosophy with its own limits: right in the centre of the philosophical system there is something that cannot ...

'Trembling Curiosity': The Naturalizing of Religion in the Early Modern Period University of Antwerp

Walter Van Herck
Center for Ethics, Center for European Philosophy
This research project examines the shifting relationship between curiosity and religion and argues for curiosity's centrality in new 'naturalized' accounts of religion in the early modern period (1500- 1800). At once seen as a natural human propensity, central to scientific knowledge, and a sin by some theological thinkers, British philosopher Thomas Hobbes puts curiosity to new and transformative use, making it the foundation of his ...

The role of the Dutch fresh in the development of innovative forms of European versification of the early modern period Ghent University

Jurgen Pieters
Department of Literary Studies

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 ...

Human-environment interactions in Flemish floodplains during the medieval and early modern period KU Leuven

Gert Verstraeten
Division of Geography and Tourism, Archaeology, 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 ...

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

Paul Trio
Medieval History, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

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 ...

Perception and conception of the self in the early modern period: the proasic rhetorics of Coornhert and Charron Ghent University

Jurgen Pieters
Department of Literary Studies, Department of Dutch literature

The early-modern period, Michel Foucault has argued, is the cradle of 'governmentality'. In this project, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornherts Zedekunst dat is wellevenskunste (1586) and Pierre Charron's De La Sagesse (1601) are analysed rheotrically and conceptually in view of Foucault's argument.

Early Modern theater and 'gouvernementalité' (Foucault): three pieces of Joost van den Vondel in a new light Ghent University

Jurgen Pieters
Department of Literary Studies, Department of French, Department of Dutch literature

This research project analyzes aims of three dramatic texts of the Dutch seventeenth-century poet Joost van den Vondel. More specifically to Palamedes oft murdered silliness (1625), Gijsbrecht Aemstel (1637) and Lucifer (1654). These texts will be read in light of Michel Foucaults analysis of the early modern period (16th-17th centuries) as the cradle of 'governmentality'. The documents in question are more than just illustrative of what ...

Multiple identities in a late medieval and early modern city: Mechelen in the 15th and 16th centuries. University of Antwerp

Peter Stabel
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN), Centre for Urban History
This project aims at analysing multiple identities that town dwellers adopt and (re)produce and in doing so it will try to present a more nuanced image of pre-modern urban society than traditional social and cultural history usually permits. For the case-study of Mechelen in the late medieval and early modern period, it wants to identify how identities are constructed (by the participation of different groups in civil society), how they are ...