Research projects
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PASSIM project
PASSIM studies the medieval reception of the Latin sermons preached by the Early Church Fathers, using a digital network of manuscripts.
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Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East
The Source of Life project combines historical and archaeological evidence to explore the interrelationship between water installations, governance, and legal and cultural frameworks within five Middle Eastern cities (the 7th-15th centuries).
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Mary of Guelders
Radboud University, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Museum het Valkhof worked in close collaboration for four years on the restoration of the prayer book, the research and the development of an exhibition.
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The Medical Compendium of Henricus Spijker, Doctor and Canon in Fifteenth-Century Nijmegen
This project discloses the manuscript of Henricus Spijker to a wider audience. It further aims to trace the life of his and the role he played in the city of Nijmegen between 1470 and 1493.
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Viabundus
Viabundus provides an open-source available, digital map of long-distance routes in Northern Europe (ca. 1350-1650) and other relevant information.
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Mirror of mutual relations
This project studies the development of urban networks in the Cologne region around the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Waal and IJssel and their relation to Hanse.
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A Living Law
In the eighth and ninth centuries, Western Europe experienced an impressive rekindled enthusiasm for scholarship and learning, fuelled by the Carolingian ambitions of correctio and emendatio of religious texts and practice.
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SOLEMNE
Using collections of canon law (i.e. ecclesiastical or religious normative texts), the project SOLEMNE aims to explore how ideas about social norms spread throughout medieval Western Europe (approx. 500-1200 CE).
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Dating the Remains of an Agricultural System in Southern Iraq
Remains of a massive irrigation system covering over 50,000 hectares surround the former site of the city of Basra, Southern Iraq. This project is a collaboration to try and date the ridges of soil on site.