Projects
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.
Perception and conception of the self in the early modern period: the proasic rhetorics of Coornhert and Charron Ghent University
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.
Printing images in the early modern Low Countries. Patents, copyrights, and the separation of art and technology, 1555-1795 Ghent University
Like Instagram today, new print technology caused a revolutionary increase in the number of images in the early modern period. In that same era, art and technology became separated. Today, art and technology are considered different types of human making, practised at different institutes and studied by different disciplines. Yet the separation of art and technology is not obvious; it was developed in Western Europe in the early modern ...
The Presence of Classics in Early Modern Book History (PreCEM) KU Leuven
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 ...