Projects
Comparative rural history of the North Sea Ghent University
This project involves fundamental research funded by the Research Foundation Flanders. The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.
Early medieval farming communities in northern Francia. Rural settlement, domestic space and material culture from Clovis to the Counts of Flanders. Ghent University
The central objective of the research is to study the daily life, culture and socio-economy of the farming communities living in northern Francia during the Early Middle Ages (ca. AD 450 – ca. AD 1000). This will be tackled using a varied set of archaeological, historical and ecological sources, set in a wider comparative framework. The research will focus on settlement forms, house-building traditions, local domestic ceramics and the ...
The 'Geuzenhoek': religious coexistence and multiple identities in rural Flanders (1600-1750) Ghent University
This project will analyze the interaction between Catholics and Protestants in the so-called 'Geuzenhoek', a number of bi-confessional rural villages in the vicinity of Oudenaarde (1600-1750). The central hypothesis is that the villagers had 'multiple identities', allowing co-existence between both confessional groups.
Rural and small urban populations in the Low Countries and North-Western Europe (12th-18th century) - the profile of agrarian inhabitants and urban lower class communities, primarily based on existing and new osteological analyses Vrije Universiteit Brussel
'Wo mistus, da Christus'. A micro-perspective on the allocation and recycling of urban waste in the rural economy of early modern Flanders. University of Antwerp
'Wo mistus, da Christus'. A micro-perspective on the allocation and recycling of urban waste in the rural economy of early modern Flanders. University of Antwerp
The Economics and Politics of Rural Market Institutions in Development: A Micro-perspective. KU Leuven
Building on the edge. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the north-western edge of the Roman Empire Ghent University
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point in the history of the region and reveals how native inhabitants were engaging with the Roman cultural sphere. This project investigates an understudied corpus of rural stone dwellings in north-western Gaul, not as so often from an economic point of ...
Mapping buried remains of Roman urban and rural domestic architecture using multi-offset ground-penetrating radar Ghent University
In this project, we will further develop multi-offset ground-penetrating radar, where different distances (offsets) between transmitter and receiver are used for data acquisition. When applied on a large enough scale, this should produce clearer horizontal slices of the soil. This technique will be used in archaeological contexts: Roman houses and farmsteads in Mariana (Corsica) and the Potenza Valley (Marche, Italy).
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