Projects
Methods of Translation in Late Medieval and Neo-Latin Medical Texts. A Comparative Study based on the Aristotle's Problemata KU Leuven
Sabbatical Jelle Haemers: Medieval voices. A social history of late medieval politics from below (13th-15th centuries) KU Leuven
In this research project I want to listen to the voice of medieval people. Historiography agrees that late medieval politics were not only made 'from above', but also 'from below'. Important political developments in the period between 1250 and 1550, such as the accession of larger groups of people to the government, were effectively achieved through political initiatives of citizens, both men and women. However, it remains unclear what ...
A medieval Stylome? Exploring the Universal Stylome Hypothesis in medieval prose. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Gert Partoens: Completion of two edition projects related to the early medieval reception of Augustine's exegesis of Paul + Contribution to the scientific description of a series of medieval homiliaria in the Florentine Biblioteca Laurenzia KU Leuven
I will devote most of my time to the completion of two edition projects, each of which will result in a volume in the Corpus Christianorum (Brepols): (1) (in collaboration with Dr. Nicolas De Maeyer) the second volume of the Collectio ex opusculis sancti Augustini in epistolas Pauli of Beda Venerabilis (672/3-735); (2) the first part of the voluminous commentary on the letter to the Romans in the Expositio in epistolas beati Pauli ex operibus ...
Restricted Desire: Contemporary Christian Anthropology in the Light of Medieval Mystics’ Experience of Eucharistic Loss Restricted Desire: Contemporary Christian Anthropology in the Light of Medieval Mystics’ Experience of Eucharistic Loss Restricted Desi KU Leuven
This project concerns the human being’s desire for God, and God’s desire for humankind, as expressed through desire for the Eucharist. It searches for present-day relevance in the lives and writings of female medieval mystics (who themselves experienced Eucharistic desire and loss), that might be insightful in modern-day catastrophe situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic when “normal” access to the Eucharist is restricted. Eucharistic loss ...
Multilingual encounters in the late medieval town. Rewriting history in multilingual social and political contexts in late medieval Flanders and Brabant (1380-1500) Ghent University
This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The Burgundian Low Countries were multilingual in their speaking and writing culture. So far, literary and historical scholarship has been rather one-dimensional in its approach towards multilingualism in literature, focusing predominantly on place or cultural ...
Painting/Mapping the Medieval Landscape. A Landscape-archaeological analysis of the medieval landscape around Bruges as depicted by Pieter Pourbus Ghent University
During the Middle Ages, the metropolis of Bruges thrived through its oversea trade. A large tidal inlet – called Zwin – provided a navigable passage from the North Sea, through the wetlands, to heart of the city. In the middle of the 16th century, the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) transformed the Zwin area from an axis of trade into a frontline of war. Of course, this had a profound impact on the environment. At the start of this sudden ...
Painting/Mapping the Medieval Landscape. A Landscape-archaeological analysis of the medieval landscape around Bruges as depicted by Pieter Pourbus Ghent University
Aortic dissection is a local tear in the aortic wall that leads to a parallel blood flow within the wall, a so-called “false lumen”. The disease is asymptomatic and may result in sudden death if the degraded aortic wall ruptures. Recently, we used high resolution synchrotron imaging to demonstrate that small side branches play an important role in the initiation and propagation of aortic dissections in mice. These findings were confirmed in ...
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 ...