Projects
Humanist jurisprudence and the emergence of the classical law of nations. KU Leuven
Humanist Condolences. Funerary Collections in Quattrocento Italy. KU Leuven
How people express grief and sympathy in situations of death and loss is conditioned by culture. When, in fourteenth- and fifteenthcentury Italy, Renaissance humanism gradually replaced medieval ways of thinking, a new literary phenomenon emerged, as humanists began to compile funerary collections. These collections, preserved in both manuscripts and incunables, consist of treatises, letters, orations, poems, and dialogues that were composed ...
From Valla's Dialectica to Stevin's Bewysconst: Humanist Philosophy of Language and the Emergence of Dutch Vernacular Logic KU Leuven
This project deals with the emergence of Dutch vernacular logic,
focusing on its philosophical, logical and linguistic aspects. While
there has been much research on the development of vernacular
logic traditions in Western Europe as well as on the development of
Dutch as a scientific language, hardly any work has been done on
the specific area of Dutch vernacular logic. In this project we will
study a corpus of ...
Humanist Condolences. Funerary Collections in Quattrocento Italy. KU Leuven
A humanist code of conduct for diplomats. Edition, translation, commentary and literary, and intellectual-historical study of Frederik van Marselaer's treatise, LEGATUS (1666) KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation aims to disclose and study the Legatus. This neo-Latin treatise about the ideal diplomat earned its author, Frederik Van Marselaer much acclaim from eminent contemporaries, such as Antonius Sanderus, cardinal Alfonso de la Cueva, and Nicolaus Vernulaeus, to mention a few. However, in the following centuries, the work did not quite receive as much attention as it deserved.
The Legatus was ...
From Valla’s Dialectica to Stevin’s Bewysconst: Humanist Philosophy of Language and the Emergence of Dutch Vernacular Logic KU Leuven
The main goal of this project is to study the earliest developments of Dutch vernacular logic. While there exists a large body of literature pertaining to the development of vernacular logic traditions in Western Europe as well as on the development of Dutch as a scientific language, hardly any research has been conducted on the specific area of Dutch vernacular logic. In order to address this gap, the project will focus on a corpus of about ...
Glorification and/or Annihilation? The Status of Humanity in the Highest Union ("sonder differencie") with God in Middle Dutch Mystical Literature KU Leuven
The proposed project will research the status of humanity in Middle Dutch mystical literature, and particularly regarding the theme of the ‘highest union’ with God. Concerning humanity, these texts contain a remarkable paradox with far-reaching consequences. A number of indicators appear to suggest that according to these mystical authors, humanity disappears in God in this ultimate union (cf. 'union without difference', 'mystical ...
From Chrysoloras’ Latin to Erasmus’ Greek: Renaissance classical bilingualism as an ideal in humanistic Europe (1397-1536). KU Leuven
Troping hope: A discursive and rhetorical-tropological analysis of the politics of humanity in the fiction and nonfiction of H. G. Wells. KU Leuven
This dissertation takes as its primary research object the early science fiction work of H. G. Wells and compares it to the scientific journalism of the same author during the beginning decade or so of his career (1890-1903), seeking a confrontation on the level of theme, argument, and rhetorical investment between the different modes of writing. Together with the work of other writers, including William James, Thomas Henry Huxley, and ...