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Childbirth in early medieval Japan : ritual economies and medical emergencies in Procedures During the Day of the Royal Consort’s Labor Ghent University
Childbirth and women’s health in medieval Japan : focusing on the Buddhist and medical knowledge in the 'Encyclopaedia of Childbirth' (ca. 1318) Ghent University
Autorité du latin et transparence constructionnelle : le sort des néologismes médiévaux dans le domaine médical KU Leuven
This article gives an overview of the research project Latin authority and constructional transparency at work: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages and their fate, financed by the Research Fund of the KU Leuven (OT/14/047). This project aims at investigating why certain French neologisms that emerged in the field of medicine during the Middle Ages managed to survive, while others disappeared after some time. Our ...
Medieval moated sites in coastal Flanders: the impact of social groups on the formation of the landscape in relation to the early estates of the Count of Flanders. In: De Groote K., Tys D. & Pieters M. (eds.): Exchanging Medieval Material Culture Stud Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The phenomenon of the moated site of coastal Flanders was one of the first important themes in Frans Verhaeghe's research. He rather early touched the archaeological problem of the cognitive aspects of material culture and of the use of symbols as "active means of constructing continuously changing realities". He was right in stressing the link between the general social and symbolic meaning and use of these moats and the use of moats in the ...
Medieval textbooks as a major source for historical sociolinguistic studies of (highregister) medieval Greek Ghent University
This article proposes to consider medieval textbooks, designed for the study of Greek, as major sources for historical sociolinguistic analyses on texts written in (high-register) Medieval Greek. It additionally discusses some aspects of the definition of historical sociolinguistics as a discipline, and stresses the importance of recovering the speech community's perspective on Medieval Greek.
Range of motion and energy cost of locomotion of the late medieval armoured fighter: A proof of concept of confronting the medieval technical literature with modern movement analysis KU Leuven
© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Study of technical, normative, and narrative medieval literature and of archaeological pieces allows the motor skills of armoured members of the aristocracy to be outlined but not quantified. The authors present novel data on the impact of wearing armour on both the freedom of movement and the energy cost of locomotion, and confront the results to systematic analysis of medieval written sources. An ...