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Picturing the Roman Army in Third-Century Egypt. Roman Tombstones from the Military Necropolis at Nicopolis. KU Leuven

Katelijn Vandorpe
Ancient History, Leuven
Following the defeat of Marc Antony and Cleopatra in 30 B.C., a Roman fortress was established southwest of the newly founded town of Nikopolisnear Alexandria in Egypt. Its necropolis was located close to the fortress and produced more than 140 tombstones, most of them associated with legio II Traiana fortis</>. Only a small minority has been discovered in situ</>; the major part has been sold on the antiquities market in the late ...

Fighting crime and corruption? Police forces, army and society in Late Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. KU Leuven

Katelijn Vandorpe
Ancient History, Leuven

Following the final defeat of Marc Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. Some traditions remained unbroken, but fundamental changes were made to the criminal justice system – including the police. In spite of what historians have long assumed, Egypt had a police system, although nothing like modern police. The evidence shows a wide spectrum of officials carrying out police work. The Roman rulers not only ...

Fighting Crime and Corruption. The Impact of Police Forces and Army on Village Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt. KU Leuven

Katelijn Vandorpe
Ancient History, Leuven
My research focuses on police forces in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, with particular attention to the impact of Greek and Roman rule on the organization of these forces. Fundamental changes were undoubtedly made to the policing system under Greek and Roman rule, but a comparison between the Ptolemaic and Roman police forces may reveal more continuity than scholars have acknowledged. In the past, scholars were primarily interested in writing a ...

Because I am Greek: Polyonymy and the Expression of Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt KU Leuven

Mark Depauw
Ancient History, Leuven
The use of double names in Graeco-Roman society has fascinated many researchers and is mentioned in numerous studies. Despite the abundance of references, however, no comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of the phenomenon exists. Whereas earlier works had a merely classifying approach, more recent studies are usually confined to case-studies combined with some sociological remarks. To fill in this gap, my colleague Yanne Broux and I have ...

Pioneering the Modernisation of the Laws of War and Peace: Balthazar de Ayala (c. 1548-1584) and the Emergence of the Law of Nations KU Leuven

Randall Lesaffer
Division for Roman Law and Legal History

The field of international law owes a significant debt to the works of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) who, together with Alberico Gentili (1552-1608), has been recognised as a progenitor of a modern and secular law of nations. While much scholarly attention has been devoted to their contributions, other influential authors have predominantly remained in their shadow. One of these is Balthazar de Ayala (c. 1548-1584), a Leuven educated jurist and ...

Life and death of legionary soldiers in third-century Agypt. An interdisciplinary study of tomb monuments of Legio II Traiana Fortis. KU Leuven

Katelijn Vandorpe
Ancient History, Leuven
This interdisciplinary project starts from funerary monuments of Legio II Traiana Fortis, originating from the necropolis of Nikopolis in the neighbourhood of Alexandria (third century). They belonged to legionary soldiers, their wives and children. The tomb stones have been dispersed over several collections: the major part is kept in Alexandria; the other tomb stones are now in Europe and the US. The project will result in two volumes. In a ...

"The origins of European Kingship (c. AD 400-500): Towards a new model of military leadership in Late Antiquity." Ghent University

Koenraad Verboven
Department of History

Early medieval concepts of kingship are primarily seen as the result of processes of ethnic solidarity, or as the self-explanatory outcome of the institutional disintegration of the western Roman empire. My project will argue that the fifth-century emergence of new forms of kingship was the result of a crisis of leadership structures within the imperial Roman army.

Socio-ecological resilience: a new perspective for artisanal and small-scale mining communities? University of Antwerp

Sara Geenen
Development processes, actors and policies
This research project explores whether the concept socio-ecological resilience can further our empirical and conceptual understanding of changes in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) communities. It has three main objectives that will address gaps in the ASM literature: 1) to improve our understanding of the internal structures, actors and dynamics of ASM communities; 2) to develop a conceptual framework to understand the interacting ...