Projects
Augustine's Cyprian: Authority in Roman North Africa. The Appeal to Cyprian in the Donatist and Pelagian Controversies. A Study of the Legitimacy of the Use of Authority in Two Controversies in the Life of Augustine. KU Leuven
How International Organisations Shape International Environmental Law through Non-Binding Instruments - A Tale of Law and Authority KU Leuven
International organisations have been at the forefront of contemporary developments in international environmental law, adopting influential codes of conduct, guidelines, and declarations of principles. These are not the classical international instruments that are traditionally considered to be sources of international law. They do not fulfil the necessary formalities to be international treaties nor are they binding decisions of ...
The many Voices of Female Authorship. Strategic Multilingualism in Life Writing and the Shaping of Female Authorship and Authority in the Age of Enlightenment.' KU Leuven
This project seeks, for the first time, to give fundamental insight in how multilingualism, as a rhetorical tool, informed early modern women’s processes of authorial identity formation.
As an early modern woman, taking ownership over a text was far from self-evident. In fact, women writers had to carefully craft and renegotiate their authorial identities in their writing. Their life writing in particular was essential to both their ...
Using stakeholders strategically to gain authority over principals in the EU. University of Antwerp
Illuminating Love. The Reception of the Song of Songs and the Role of Authority in Syriac Biblical Interpretation KU Leuven
Love is the central theme of Song of Songs, unparalleled among biblical books in its portrayal of passion and sexual desire. It was because of that romantic nature that Song of Songs’ place among Early Christian holy texts was contested, and attitudes to the Song ranged from outright rejection to admiration and figurative interpretation. Ancient and medieval Syriac Christian texts offer especially rich examples of this interpretative ...
Law under the Guise of the Good: An Aristotelian Conception of Legal Authority. University of Antwerp
Authority and auctoritas. Italian poems on contemporary wars as an interface of powers (1530-1630) KU Leuven
This thesis investigates the interaction between different kinds of authority in Italian, narrative heroic poems, written between 1530 and 1630, on contemporary Habsburg wars in Europe.
The analysed corpus consists of approximately forty poems, that concern the siege of Tunis (1535), the Guelders wars, (1542-3), the Smalcaldic conflict (1546-7), the war of Cyprus (1570-71), and the military campaign in the Low Countries commanded by ...
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. ...