Projects
Beliefs and practices of prospective history teachers on the relationship between past and present in history education. KU Leuven
Strategic Research Programme: Cultures of Mathematics: Logic, Philosophy and History of Mathematical Practices. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Planetary Science and Bio-Geo-Evolution of Earth Vrije Universiteit Brussel
End of term tests in history as an access to the study of teaching practices. A methodological survey and two case studies. KU Leuven
Interdisciplinary Research Program: Tradition and naturalness of animal products within a societal context of change. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DNA of urbanization: the early urban settlement of Antwerp, late 9th-11th century. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Secretive Diffusion of the New Philosophy in the Low Countries: Evidence on the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy from Student Notebooks 1650-1750 KU Leuven
The diffusion of Descartes’ new philosophy was a story of both success and opposition. In the Low Countries, where Descartes has settled in 1628, his dualistic and materialistic physics and metaphysics were welcomed because of their novelty, and rejected because of several incompatible views with the prevalent Aristotelian, c.q. Catholic doctrine. Yet, if this famous chapter of the history of philosophy seems to have been written already in ...
Transmission and Transformation of European Church Types in China: The Churches of the Scheut Missions beyond the Great Wall, 1865-1955 KU Leuven
Out of Clay, laid in Bond. Building with the Brick in the County of Flanders, 1200-1400 KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis examines the introduction and spread of brick architecture in the county of Flanders in the 13th and 14th centuries. By use of building archaeology of existing buildings, supplemented with archaeological and iconographical information about no longer extant monuments, the thesis lifts medieval brick architecture from the determinist view of brick as a cheap substitute for stone, the common explanation for the rise of ...