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Seafaring, trade, and knowledge transfer: maritime politics and commerce in early middle period to early modern China Ghent University
Fish out of water : collecting aquatic animals in the Early Modern period Ghent University
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe had a lively collecting culture. Princes and professors, apothecaries and artists, merchants and physicians: different groups of people became obsessed with collecting. They collected man-made and natural objects: artificialia and naturalia. Various aquatic naturalia belonged to the most fashionable collectables – think of blowfish, sawfish, narwhal tusks, horseshoe crabs, corals, and shells. Most sought ...
Tribute, trade, and smuggling: commercial, scientific and human interaction in the middle period and early modern world Ghent University
Through the vast labyrinth of languages and dialects: The emergence and transformations of a conceptual pair in the early modern period (ca. 1478-1782) KU Leuven
Although the roots of the twin concepts "language" and "dialect" hark back to Greek antiquity, there is no general agreement about their definitions in present-day scholarship, to the point that a number of scholars refrain from using the term "dialect" as distinct from "language." In order to arrive at a better understanding of this pair and its modern conceptualization, a systematic historiographical study of its origin and development is ...
Portuguese Vaulting Systems at the Dawn of the Early Modern Period. Between Tradition and Innovation KU Leuven
Capitalizing Multilingual Competence: Language Learning and Teaching in the Early Modern Period KU Leuven
As an illustration of historical didaxology – the study of language teaching and learning in the past –-, this contribution focuses on multilingual teaching in the Low Countries in the 16th century. Multilingualism and the teaching of foreign languages were widespread in the Low Countries in the Early Modern Period, as shown by the vast number of private and public teaching establishments, and of language preceptors. This contribution focuses ...
Public or private interests? The investment behaviour of public officials in Antwerp during the early modern period Ghent University
Indebted cities were a widespread phenomenon during the Ancien Régime. However, some found ways to innovate the management of their municipal debt, whilst others fell prey to over-indebtness or default. In this article we have left the success-stories aside and focussed on the latter. Using early modern Antwerp as a case study, we have disentangled the underlying mechanisms that ultimately lead to over-indebtness and (in some cases) default. ...
Confraternities as Such, and as a Template for Guilds in the Low Countries during the Medieval and the Early Modern Period KU Leuven
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities presents confraternities as fundamentally important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital in early modern Europe and Post-Conquest ...