Projects
Muziek, liturgie en herinnering van de doden in Engeland tussen laat Middeleeuwen en vroege Tudor tijdperk Music, liturgy and remembrance of the dead in England between late Middle Ages and early Tudor era KU Leuven
The Thesis explores the origins of anglican liturgical music either from the musicological and liturgical point of view. The period taken into account is from Late Middle Age and the early Tudor era, with particular insight on the mutations occurred during Edward VI's reign. The investigation precincts is focused specifically on the reformed liturgy for the dead. Infact, it is inside the context of intercessory liturgies that the development ...
The body as a mirror of the soul: an inquiry into the reception of the Physiognomonica in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. KU Leuven
Medieval scholars reading (pseudo-)Aristotle’s Physiognomonica, a text dealing with the deduction of internal character traits from external features, did not read this treatise in the original Greek language, but had access to it through the Latin translation by Bartholomew of Messina (13th century). This translation (rather than the original Greek text) circulated widely in the medieval West and was instrumental in the ...
Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages Ghent University
The novel is today the most popular literary genre worldwide. Irs early history has not been writen yet. My
project aims to generate a paradigm shift (conceptually. cross-culturally and interdisciplinarily) in our
understanding of this history. It offers the first comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of the persistence
of ancient novelistic material in (Greek, Latin. Syriac, Arabic, Annenian. ...
Perception and Performance of Social Identity in the Nascent Urban Societies of the High Middle Ages Ghent University
This project aims to undertake a cultural historical approach to the perception and performance of social identity in the nascent urban societies of Northern France and the Southern Low Countries between the eleventh and early thirteenth centuries.
Questions of life and death. An inquiry into the reception of Aristotle's De longitudine et brevitate vitae and De iuventute et senectute, De vita et morte, De respiratione in the Middle Ages KU Leuven
This project focuses on the twelfth-century Latin translations, made by James of Venice, of Aristotle’s treatises On Length and Shortness of Life and On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration and on the manuscripts that contain these translations. These manuscripts will be studied from a twofold angle, aiming at full disclosure of their relevance for the study of medieval Aristotelian natural philosophy. First, the project aims at ...
Literary rebels in Ghent from the middle ages until the present Ghent University
Since the Middle Ages until today literary works have contributed to the image of Ghent as a city of rebels. Literature also criticizes and transforms this image. The present project disseminates recent research into those literary rebels. It chooses the format of an illustrated book for a broad audience, city walks and a podcast series. The audience will be acquainted with a broadened understanding of literature, in which performance (e.g., ...
Augustine of Hippo's De civitate Dei in the Central Middle Ages (10th-12th c.): Transmission History and Reception in Theological Debates KU Leuven
My project centers on the reception and manuscript transmission of Augustine of Hippo’s De civitate Dei from the 10th century to the first two decades of the 12th. Augustine’s masterpiece has been one of the most influential works in shaping not only Christian identity, but also Western culture as such. Nonetheless, its medieval Fortleben has received less attention than it deserves. By providing the first encompassing study of its reception ...
BOF-ZAP-office in Cultural History Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages Ghent University
BOF-ZAP-office in Cultural History Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages
Latijnse autoriteit en constructionele transparantie: neologismen in het Franse medische vocabularium van de middeleeuwen en hun voortbestaan. Latin authority and constructional transparency: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages KU Leuven
This study has investigated why certain French neologisms that emerged in the field of medicine during the Middle Ages managed to survive, while others disappeared after some time. My hypothesis is that morphology, in particular constructional transparency, contributed in a crucial manner to lexical preservation. More specifically, words formally close to Latin should have more chances of survival than original French creations, i.e. ...