7 oktober 2024
Currently, Puck is doing her PhD in modern Italian history and the history of masculinity and violence. Her PhD project Trials of Honour. Masculinity, violence and emotions in the modern Italian military (1861-1919) was selected for the 2024 NWO PhD in the...
7 oktober 2024
This research looks into the public presence of North-Africans in ancient Rome from 146 BCE until 180 CE. For this, I will combine information from primary sources such as administrative documents, literary works and material finds with insights from scholarly...
7 oktober 2024
The research investigates how antique sculptural models were studied within workshops of fifteenth-century painters across Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. A primary goal is to reconceptualise our understanding of knowledge sharing between different workshops. In addition...
7 oktober 2024
Ons demografisch, sociaal en topografisch begrip van Rome is voor de vroege middeleeuwen grotendeels gebaseerd op een, helaas, beperkt begrip van kerkstichtingen. Verschillende actoren waaronder de kerk, de seculiere elite en machthebbers hadden een sociale en...
23 september 2024
Silius Italicus diverged stylistically from Livy’s AUC while narrating the Second Punic War in his Punica, also in his depiction of the character Hannibal Barca. Whereas Livy portrays him as the despicable un-Roman antitype, Silius transforms him into a...