Research projects (1 - 500 of 2917)

Entrepreneurial networks in the Roman business world. Kinship, trust and cooperation and the impact of empire.
Ghent University
Abstract: This research project intends a structural analysis of business networks in Roman long-distance trade. We will focus on the business
communities in Republican Delos and Imperial Puteoli and Ostia. The aim of the comparison is to assess whether the unification of the
Mediterranean world under Roman rule altered the nature of merchant networks. As a working hypothesis, we assume this unification to facilitate
commerce and create larger and more efficient networks.
Organisations:
• Department of History
Researchers:
• Koenraad Verboven
Church Architecture in the Age of Reason: The Ethics
Ghent University
Abstract: This project aims to examine the concepts and ideas that relate church building to human passions and devotion in 18th century France
and England. It wants to examine how views of this relation between church architecture, devotion and human passions were exchanged across
Europe. In so doing, it also hopes to clarify the influence of confessional differences on church design.
Organisations:
• Departement of Architecture and urban planning
Researchers:
• Maarten Delbeke
Vanden Twaelf dogheden: an exemplary study of the functions, distributuin and impact of Middle Dutch mustical writing
Ghent University
Abstract: the proposed project wants to examine the function, distribution and carry-over of a 14th-century mustical treatise, vanden twaelf
dogheden, and in broader sense the development and impact of medieval and early modern spiritual literature.
Organisations:
• Departement of French
Researchers:
• Youri Desplenter
the serial nature of experimentation
Ghent University
Abstract: this project proposes a systematic, philisophical analysis of experimentation udnerstood in terms of series. it aims to illuminate and
understand how experiments connect sequentially, looking specifically at the early modern period, where serial experiments are abudant. its
hypothesis is that serial experimentation is used to generate knowledge.
Organisations:
• Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences
Researchers:
• Eric Schliesser
Case alternation in present-day German: A corpus-based analysis of the conditions of use of accusative and dative with
non-transparent two-way prepositional verbs
Ghent University
Abstract: Building on corpus-based analysis, this project explores the motivations behind the case alternation between accusative and dative in
verbal constructions with two-way prepositions in present-day German from a constructionist perspective, considering both cases as parts of
alternating constructions with semantic functions in their own right, and focusing on the interplay between the constructions and the semantic and
morphosyntactic properties of the lexical items.
Organisations:
• Department of Latin and Greek
Researchers:
• Klaas Willems
The Dawning of the Modern State: Institutional Reform, Financial Reconstruction and the Penetration of the State in the
Austrian Netherlands
Ghent University
Abstract: This research project focuses on three consecutive plans of state reform in the eighteenth-century Southern Netherlands, which were
chiefly pursued to cut government costs and to maximize tax income. The aim of the project is a better understanding of factors and actors
furthering or hindering the modernization of the central governmental apparatus in the era of burgeoning Enlightenment ideas.
Organisations:
• Department of History
Researchers:
• René Vermeir
Multilingual landscapes and linguistic vitality in urban surroundings: case-studies of Brussels and Amsterdam.
Ghent University
Abstract: This project aims to address the vitality and structured linguistic hierarchies of languages used and displayed in the linguistic landscapes
of Brussels and Amsterdam by means of quantitative and qualitative methodologies as well as geographical analyses. The project also aims to
address the current conceptual void and lack of clarity on the relation between vitality and linguistic landscapes in general.
Organisations:
• Department of Latin and Greek
Researchers:
• Stefaan Slembrouck
Identity and stigmatization: the case of the Roman freedman. A qualitative analysis of the socialization and stratification
of and the interaction between freed and freeborn Romans.
Ghent University
Abstract: This project focuses on the highly underrepresented group of Roman freedmen. The main goal is to find out which processes determined
the interaction between Roman elites and freeborn ?commoners? on the one hand, and the ambivalent class of freedman on the other. Rather than