Projects
Epistolary Culture and the Formation of the Syriac Orthodox Church: The Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug (d. 523) KU Leuven
The fifth and sixth centuries were a decisive period for the emergence of the Syriac Orthodox Church, a community rooted in the Middle East which now forms an integral part of European society. The Christological controversies sparked by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 led to divisions between churches that persist to the present. Late antique letters offer rich details about interactions between leaders of the anti-Chalcedonian, miaphysite ...
The making of transregional Catholicism Print culture in the Archdiocese of Cambrai (1559-1659) KU Leuven
This dissertation studies the production of religious books in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai between 1559 and 1659. From its foundation in 1559, this province included most of the French-speaking (or Walloon) regions of the Habsburg Low Countries. Because of its specific location at the frontier between the Kingdom of France and the Spanish Habsburg territories, the region has been afflicted by long-lasting warfare, disrupting its ...
Drawing and Dissent. Pictorial Notebook Culture and the Politics of Art in the Dutch Revolt KU Leuven
Tappers legacy. Catholic clerical culture and pastoral strategies between theory and practice in an age of confessionalism (1545-1621). KU Leuven
This research project surveys the impact in local communities and milieus of ideas on the cure of the souls shared by Leuven-trained theologians. In the course of the sixteenth century clerical culture and attitudes transformed thoroughly as it shifted towards a pastoral approach. The decrees of the Council of Trent established pastoral solicitude as the general standard. The Leuven faculty had long been a standard bearer of this mindset and ...
[Exhibition Project] James Ensor in context : Ensor and the history of European art from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Japan has only relatively recently strongly embraced the modern museum culture, which in Europe is also only 250 years old. Thus was the Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (National Museum) ...
History of development of the Buddhist monastic structure and rules: influence of Jainism Ghent University
In this research, the historical role of Jainism in the history of development of the Buddhist monastic structure and rules will be clarified through a thorough text-historical, philological and systematic analysis of the monastic texts of Buddhism and Jainism.
The Hazards of Hormones: Risk, Regulation and Women’s Health in the History of Hormones in Belgium KU Leuven
Hormones today are everywhere: in pharmacies and hospitals, on bedside tables and in handbags. Millions of women ingest synthetic sex hormones to control their fertility, for menstrual and menopausal problems, to assist conception, as abortifacients, and for other reasons. In our collective memory, the rise of hormones mostly counts as a positive development, giving rise to women’s emancipation and sexual liberation. Yet there also exists a ...