Projects
Muziek, liturgie en herinnering van de doden in Engeland tussen laat Middeleeuwen en vroege Tudor tijdperk Music, liturgy and remembrance of the dead in England between late Middle Ages and early Tudor era KU Leuven
The Thesis explores the origins of anglican liturgical music either from the musicological and liturgical point of view. The period taken into account is from Late Middle Age and the early Tudor era, with particular insight on the mutations occurred during Edward VI's reign. The investigation precincts is focused specifically on the reformed liturgy for the dead. Infact, it is inside the context of intercessory liturgies that the development ...
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. ...
De verduisteringen volgens antieke en middeleeuwse traditie : wetenschappelijke en niet-wetenschappelijke verklaringen Eclipses in ancient and medieval tradition: scientific and non-scientific theories KU Leuven
My doctoral research focuses on eclipses in ancient and medieval traditions, as they are exhibited through scientific and non-scientific theories, with a particular interest in Greek manuscripts. Starting with primitive beliefs about eclipses and unscientific explanations, I will then look at their scientific study, particularly the calculations developed by the ancients. Then I will dwell on the diagrams that often illustrate the ...
Inspiring Ideas. A Cross-Contextual Analysis of Political Thinking in Burgundian Flanders (1400-1520). KU Leuven
This dissertation finds out how political thinking inspired various social groups during negotiations on good governance in fifteenth-century Burgundian Flanders. By doing so, I question the overspecialisation of historiography. In recent years, scholarly perspectives on late medieval political thinking have persistently multiplied, which has resulted in an incredibly rich, dynamic, but also fragmented debate. Taking a difference stance, the ...
The emergence of a 'modern' labour market? Tracing rural labourers in an early modern commercial farming system: the Waasland polder area (1650-1850) University of Antwerp
Contention. Urban petitions and communal politics in late medieval Europe KU Leuven
Medieval Bruges and its outer ports. A landscapearchaeological contribution to the Zwin-debate Ghent University
During the Middle Ages (ca.700-1500), Bruges became a leading European economic and
cultural centre. Lying inland, the city continuously searched for a navigable way to the sea. To achieve this goal natural opportunities (creeks) were combined with man-made canals: a portuary system called Zwin. In the late Middle Ages (ca.1300-1500), the region even developed into a linear, suburban extension of Bruges from the city’s heart heading east ...
Mind Your Words! The Role of Medieval Translations in the History of Concepts KU Leuven
The proposed project aims to use language studies to better understand medieval translations of philosophical treatises. It therefore wants to investigate whether the combination of a philological study (‘close reading’) and computational data (‘distant reading’) can succeed in objectively ascribing certain currently anonymous translations to known medieval translators, or at least in grouping them as the works of one unnamed scholar. If this ...