Projects up to 2013
VNC-project (FWO-NWO)
The charters and the chancellery of the counts of Holland and Hainaut, 1299-1345. A study on the written communication between sovereign and subjects during a personal union.
Directors: Thérèse de Hemptinne, Peter Hoppenbrouwers (Universiteit Leiden)
Collaborators: Valeria van Camp, Jinna Smit (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Project duration: 2006-2010
Lost cultural landscapes in the borderland of Flanders and the Netherlands. An archeological approach.
Directors: Jelle Vervloet (Wageningen University & Research Centre, Leerstoelgroep Sociaal-ruimtelijke analyse), Erik Thoen
Collaborators: Alexander Lehouck, Nele Vanslembrouck
Project duration: 2002-2006
IUAP
City and society in the Low Countries (1200-1800): urban space, knowledge and culture, social capital
Director: Marc Boone
Co-directors: Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Monique Weis, Claire Billen (ULB), Bruno Blondé, Bert De Munck (UA), Patrick Lefèvre, Bernard Bousmanne (KBR), Michel Draguet, Sabine Van Sprang (MRBA/KMSK), Maarten Prak (UUtrecht)
Project duration: 1 January 2007- 31 December 2011
Collaborators: Tim De Doncker, Hannes Lowagie, Jelle Haemers
Website: http://www.cityandsociety.be/
NACHO - Non-destructive Analysis of Cultural Heritage Objects
Directors: David Strivay (ULg), Luc Moens, Peter Vandenabeele
Project duration: 1 January 2007- 31 December 2011
Collaborators: Annelien Deneckere (doctoral researcher), Sylvia Lycke (lab assistant)
FWO : Research Project
The church in the middle. An inquiry into the urban parish and parish church in the Southern Low Countries (ca. 1450-1700)
Director: Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Guido Marnef (UA)
Collaborator: Michal Bauwens
Project duration: 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2013
Sacred fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique Latin Passions (4th-6th cent.)
Directors: Danny Praet, Koen De Temmerman, Marc Van Uytfanghe
Collaborator: Annelies Bossu
Project duration: 1 January 2010 - 31 December 2013
Local elites in a changing society: a comparative research of the acquisition and exercise of power in Flemish and Brabantine rural communities (13th - 16th centuries)
Directors: Erik Thoen, Tim Soens (UA)
Collaborator: Kristof Dombrecht, Eline Van Onacker (UA)
Project duration: 1 October 2009 - 30 September 2013
Anthroponymy of the historical Low Countries (till 1225).
Director: Jozef Van Loon (UA)
Co-directors: Thérèse de Hemptinne, Georges De Schutter (emeritus UA), Rika Van Deyck (emeritus UGent)
Collaborator: Wouter Soudan (UA)
Project duration: 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2012
Website: http://www.tvs.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.ONDERZKDBE&n=40312&id=UA046&tid=21008&pid=21881
The image of the city. The visualisation of urban landscape in the Southern Netherlands during the late medieval and early modern period
Directors: Maximiliaan Martens, Peter Stabel (UA)
Collaborator: Katrien Lichtert
Project duration: 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2010
Episcopal elections in Late Antiquity
Supervisors: Boudewijn Dehandschutter (KULeuven), Johan Leemans (KULeuven), Peter Van Nuffelen
Collaborators: Shawn Keough (KULeuven), Carla Nicolaye (KULeuven)
Project duration: 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2010
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The literary field of 11th century Constantinople. John Mauropous, Christopher of Mytilene and Michael Psellos: A study of their poetry in context
Supervisors: Kristoffel Demoen, Marc De Groote
Collaborator: Floris Bernard
Project duration: 1 January 2006 – 30 June 2010
FWO : Post-doctoral Project
Poetry and self consciousness in the early modern period. The representation of the urban individual in the Testament Rhetoricael of Eduard de Dene
Supervisor: Dirk Coigneau (emeritus UGent), Jürgen Pieters
Postdoctoral fellow: Samuel Mareel
Project duration: 1 October 2010 – 30 September 2013
Website: http://www.nederlandseliteratuur.ugent.be/onderzoek/historischeletterkunde
Social renewal and mobility in urban elites of late medieval Flanders
Supervisor: Marc Boone
Postdoctoral fellow: Frederik Buylaert
Project duration: 1 October 2009 - 30 September 2011
The mystical writings of Jan van Leeuwen († 1378), a blind spot in the literary tradition of Groenendaal
Supervisor: Joris Reynaert
Postdoctoral fellow: Youri Desplenter
Project duration: 1 October 2007 – 30 September 2010
FWO : Doctoral Project
De grammatica van de clitische pronomina in het Middeleeuws Grieks, met bijzondere aandacht voor tekst-pragmatische, geografische en diachrone variatie
Supervisor: Mark Janse
Collaborator: Jorie Soltic
Project duration: 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2013
The horizons of Guibert of Gembloux (1124/25-1214). Historical-anthropological research into the world of a Benedictine letter writer from the decades after the so-called crisis of cenobitism
Supervisor: Jeroen Deploige
Collaborator: Sara Moens
Project duration: 1 October 2009 – 30 September 2013
Innovation (bid‘a), apostasy (irtidād) and blasphemy (sabb) according to Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328): a diachronic study of an influential Islamic doctrine
Supervisor: Jo Van Steenbergen
Collaborator Jeroen Vanwymeersch
Project duration: 1 October 2009 - 30 September 2013
Giordano Bruno’s imagination: art of memory between magic and science
Supervisor: Wim Verbaal
Collaborator: Manuel Mertens
Project duration: 1 October 2007 - 30 September 2011
Enthralled by death. Comparative research into the formation of religious group cultures influenced by the Devotio Moderna in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Supervisor: Jeroen Deploige
Collaborator: Bas Diemel
Project duration: 1 October 2006 – 30 September 2010
Between city, state and foreign communities of merchants: economical politics in late medieval Bruges (1430-1495)
Supervisor: Marc Boone
Collaborator: Bart Lambert
Project duration: 1 October 2005 – 30 September 2009
Website: http://www.cityandsociety.be/
Word order variation in the double final verb phrase in Dutch. A diachronic corpusbases study of verb order with particular reference to concurrent word order changes
Supervisors: Magda Devos (emeritus UGent), Johan Taeldeman (emeritus UGent), Joop van der Horst (Vakgroep: Departement Linguïstiek - KULeuven)
Collaborator: Evie Coussé
Project duration: 1 October 2004 – 30 Sepember 2008
Science and Society
Liber Floridus. The world in a book
Directors: Philippe De Maeyer, Martine De Reu
Collaborator: Karen De Coene
Project duration: 1 June 2008 - 31 March 2012
with additional aid from Vlaamse Overheid, Kunsten en Erfgoed, from Vlaamse Overheid, Toerisme, from Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen and from Stad Gent
Websites: Liber Floridus; exhibition and book
Fonds National de la Recherche – Grand Duché de Luxembourg
The material culture in the region of Luxembourg from the 13th until the 18th C. based on archaeological findings from three former abbeys (Clairefontaine, Neumunster en Saint-Esprit)
Supervisor: Johnny De Meulemeester (†), Wim De Clercq
Collaborator : Davy Herremans
Project duration: 2009-2013
Website: http://www.archaeology.ugent.be/clairefontaine
BOF : Research Project
The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate: households and political networks in 15th-century Egypt and Syria
Director: Jo Van Steenbergen
Collaborator: Veerle Adriaenssens
Project duration: 1 January 2009 - 30 September 2013
The apocalyps and eschatology in the work of 14th C. Middle Dutch authors: Jan van Boendale, Lodewijk van Velthem en Jan van Leeuwen
Director: Youri Desplenter
Collaborator: Ulrike Wuttke
Project duration: 1 January 2008 - 31 October 2012
Medieval urban toponymy in the duchy of Brabant. Is it a mirror of urban development?
Directors: Marc Boone, Magda Devos (emeritus UGent)
Collaborator: Bram Van Nieuwenhuyze
Project duration: 1 October 2008 - 30 September 2010
Opkomend Frans en uitdovend Latijn in taalniveaus. Diachrone topologische stilistiek voor de analyse van de continuïteit tussen taal en schrifttradities in Gallië (8ste-11de eeuw)
Directors: Rika Van Deyck, Marc Van Uytfanghe
Collaborator: Marieke Van Acker
Project duration: 1 November 2007 – 31 December 2010
Detection and explanation of submerged landscapes in the estuary of the Westerschelde: the disposition of property as a barrier for a sustainable development during the Middle Ages?
Director: Erik Thoen
Collaborator: Nele Vanslembrouck
Project duration: 1 January 2006- 31 October 2010
Oral communication and the consolidation of the unwritten past in medieval monastic communities. An inquiry into the meaning and the use of the spoken work in a literate context (10th-late 12th centuries)
Directors: Steven Vanderputten
Collaborator: Tjamke Snijders
Project duration: 1 October 2005 - 30 September 2009
Website: http://www.resoma.ugent.be/projects
BOF : Post-Doctoral Project
Texts for the school: didactic poetry in the Greek Middle Ages
Supervisor: Kristoffel Demoen
Postdoctoral Fellow: Floris Bernard
Project duration: 1 October 2010 - 30 September 2013
BOF : Doctoral Project
Verbale perifrases in het Grieks. Een typologisch en diachronisch onderzoek vanuit cognitief-linguïstisch perspectief
Supervisor: Mark Janse
Collaborator: Klaas Bentein
Project duration: 1 September 2009 – 31 August 2013
Archeometric research on painted objects
Supervisor: Peter Vandenabeele
Collaborator: Kaatje De Langhe
Project duration: 1 January 2008 – 31 December 2012
War, state formation and the social economic impact on society: the Burgondian army under Philips the Good (1419-1467)
Supervisor: Marc Boone
Collaborator: Bert Verwerft
Project duration: 1 October 2008 - 30 September 2012
'Et incipit': The Latinity of the literary fairy tale
Supervisor: Wim Verbaal
Collaborator: Stijn Praet
Project duration: 1 October 2009 – 30 September 2011
The taking of a (Holy) City. Postclassical narratological screening of European historiographical and epic capture stories (1453 - ca. 1800)
Supervisors: Jeannine Vereecken, Bart Keunen
Collaborator: Michel De Dobbeleer
Project duration: 1 October 2005 - 30 September 2009
A literary analysis of Digenes Akrites according to the Grottaferrata and Escorial versions
Supervisors: Gunnar De Boel, Kristoffel Demoen
Collaborator: Mieke Penninck
Project duration: 1 October 2003 – 30 September 2007
FNRS : Doctoral Project
Église et aristocratie dans le diocèse de Cambrai (Xe-XIIe siècles). Pour une relecture des cadres sociopolitiques du Moyen Âge central
Supervisor: Dr. Jean-François Nieus (FUNDP), Steven Vanderputten
Collaborator: Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani
Project duration: 1 October 2009 - 30 September 2013
VIOE
Inventarisation of urban landscapes in Flanders as cultural heritage
Supervisors: Pieter Uyttenhove, Erik Thoen, Guy Châtel, Veerle Van Eetvelde
Project duration: 1 Januari 2011 – 31 September 2011
Assistant
The organisation of the comital chancery during the personal union of the counties of Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244). A study into the charters reflecting the communication between the counts and their subjects
Supervisor: Thérèse de Hemptinne
Collaborator: Els De Paermentier
Project duration: 1 November 2004 - 31 October 2011
Moses ben Abraham Dar‛ī. A Karaite Poet and Physician from Ayyubid Egypt
Supervisors: Wout van Bekkum (RU Groningen), Klaas Smelik
Collaborator: Joachim Yeshaya
Project duration: 1 October 2003 - 30 September 2009
BOF Visiting Fellowship
Fighting and representing heresy in the Low Countries during the 11th C. A research on clerical discourse on social and religious dissidence
Supervisor: Steven Vanderputten
Researcher: Diane Reilly (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA)
Project duration: 1 June 2010 - 31 October 2010
Independent Research
The Master of the Prayer Books of around 1500 - A study into his work, his oeuvre, his contemporaries, their methods and patrons - Contributions to the study on Flemish illuminated manuscripts
Supervisor: Maximiliaan Martens
Collaborator: Lieve De Kesel
Kulturelle Weltbilder in der mittelalterlichen abendländischen Literatur- zur Überlieferung des "Tristrant" des Eilhart von Oberg
Supervisors: Luc De Grauwe, Danny Praet, Jan-Dirk Müller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Collaborator: Petra Rosswaag
Project duration: 16 October 2009 – 31 August 2013
International collaboration
”Flandria Sacra”. Répertoire bibliographique des établissements religieux médiévaux de la Flandre et des principautés périphériques (dans les limites de la France actuelle, 700-1200)
Directors: Charles Mériaux (Université Lille 3), Steven Vanderputten, Brigitte Meijns (KULeuven)
Project duration: 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2009
Espacio público, opinión y comunicación política a fines de la edad media
Directors: Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer (Universidad de Sevilla), Vincent Challet (Université de Montpellier - Paul Valéry), Jan Dumolyn
Project duration: 1 October 2007 - 30 September 2010