Projects
Social and Political Ideological Discourses in the Vernacular in the Southern Low Countries (ca. 1250-1550) Ghent University
The objective of this research is an analysis of the operational social and political discourses in the late medieval society of the southern Low Countries. I will focus on the relationship between objective social and political structures (the division of a social formation in social groups and the rise of modern state forms) and their subjective perception and representation.
Utility and Balance: Political Economy and International Law in 19thCentury Belgium KU Leuven
This research project revolves around the role played by political economy in the legitimization of public international law in Belgium in the 19th century, as well as the formalization of an epistemic community of economists and jurists. This research ultimately aims to identify the value systems (denominational, philosophical, ideological) that were used by this community. At the beginning of the 19th century, political economy was ...
The Political Thought of Ye Shi KU Leuven
During the Southern Song period (1127-1271), the movement of Neo-Confucianism entered a new phase. Instead of striving for political clout as bureaucrats, Confucian scholars in the Southern Song focused on establishing their positions in local communities. Starting in the twelfth century, scholars in the Zhejiang Province became a major intellectual power. This project will focus on one of the most important figures of the Zhejiang school, Ye ...
Legitimation strategies. Political struggle between local government and resistance movements in Belgium during the transition 1944-1946 Ghent University
Legitimacy and contestation of power as part of an inquiry into conflicts and political crisis is an important field of research within the framework of political history. The focus is on the local level, often neglected in research, despite the fact that on this level the confrontation between government and society and the functioning of legitimacy became visible.
Subsidiary social provision before the welfare state. Political theory and social policy in nineteenth-century Belgium KU Leuven
This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the policy origins and the ideological origins of the Belgian welfare state. The historical origins of the Belgian modern welfare state are often traced back to the introduction of social insurances in national legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this legislation only confirmed a system that had ...
The transformation of urban political elites. The case of sixteenth-century Ghent. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
On 'd'oorloghs wree Canonnen': Peeter Snayers (1592-1667) and the development of the topographical battle scene. The representation of war and peace within the artistic, political and socio-economic dynamics of 17th-century Brussels. KU Leuven
Environmental conflict, rural communities and political centralisation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries (c.1300-c1570): test-case: the duchy of Brabant. University of Antwerp
Augustine of Hippo’s Politics of Ordered Love. Order as a Key to the Political Perspectives Developed in De Ciuitate Dei KU Leuven
The sack of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths in 410 had huge symbolic significance. Many Christians, who conflated the fate of the Christianised Roman state with the fate of the Church, feared that the fall of Rome would also have an impact on the future of the Church. Pagan critics suggested that the city had been taken because the pagan rites that had once protected the city and the empire were no longer being observed, and because the spread of ...