Projects
Borderland nobility: between France and the Netherlands (1470-1660). KU Leuven
Artists' Collections in the Early Modern Netherlands (c. 1600-c. 1700) Ghent University
While Early Modern Netherlandish painters were often avid collectors, up until now
systematic research on artists' collecting is missing. Which networks did they use while
collecting? What did they collect? Did their collections differ from other collections? How did these collections function within the workshop? Did collections affect or represent the artists' view on art theory and art production itself? Such questions were never ...
The infrastructure of globalisation. The printing press of the Southern netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in Peru, 1535-1800. KU Leuven
No world without the stars. Prophecy and society in the Spanish- Habsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt(1560s-1640s) KU Leuven
This project will study the interaction of astrology with politics and religion in the Habsburg Netherlands (1560s-1640s). Special attention will be paid to the cross-fertilization of Dutch astrological cultures and traditions with those of neighboring territories and to the general position of astrology within the framework of the Dutch Revolt (1566-1648). The project will analyze prognostic works, produced within the cities of Antwerp, ...
'No world without the stars': Astrology and Society in the SpanishHabsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt (1560s-1640s). University of Antwerp
De memorie van de deught wordt door de Poësije verlenght. Literature of rhetoricians in het Southern Netherlands in the second half of the 17th century. The works of rhetorician Cornelis de Bie from Lier as case study. KU Leuven
Roads to recovery and social reactions in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium (REC-PATH) Ghent University
Recovery models are well established in policy, commissioning and treatment practice in the UK, but have only begun to emerge in policy discourse in the Netherlands and Belgium. The aim of this project is to map pathways to recovery in populations engaging with different mechanisms of behaviour change for recovery - mutual aid, peer-based support, residential and community treatment, specialist treatment: maintenance and abstinence oriented) ...